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The Brooklyn Stakes (formerly known as the Brooklyn Handicap) is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, on Long Island. It currently is a Grade II event open to four-year-olds and up willing to race one and one-half miles on dirt. It was a Grade 1 race prior to 1993. [1]
Metropolitan Handicap; Suburban Handicap; Brooklyn Handicap (now the Brooklyn Invitational Stakes) Since 2008, the Brooklyn Handicap and Metropolitan Handicap have both been run on Belmont Stakes day, making it impossible for a horse to win all 3 races. Four horses have won the Handicap Triple Crown: Whisk Broom II (1913) [2] Tom Fool (1953 ...
Brooklyn, New York, United States: Died: 1959 (aged 68–69) Career wins: 1,094: Major racing wins; United States: Excelsior Handicap (1905, 1906) Santa Anita Handicap (Ascot Park) (1905, 1906) Sheepshead Bay Handicap (1905, 1906, 1908) Alabama Stakes (1906) Brighton Mile (1906) Brighton Junior Stakes (1906, 1907) Broadway Stakes (1906)
Brooklyn Handicap (now run as the Brooklyn Invitational Stakes), run over 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2012 m) (now 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2414 m)) on a dirt track, at Belmont Park; Suburban Handicap (now run as the Suburban Stakes), run over 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2012 m) on a dirt track, at Belmont Park; Tom Fool, winner of the New York Handicap Triple in 1953
In 1953, a healthy four-year-old Tom Fool was undefeated in ten races, He won at distances ranging from 5½ furlongs to 1¼ miles and became only the second horse to win New York's Handicap Triple Crown: the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn Handicaps. Tom Fool also won the Whitney Stakes and captured the Pimlico Special by eight lengths ...
"The Picket" winning the 1904 Brooklyn Handicap at Gravesend Race Track. Gravesend Race Track was a Thoroughbred horse racing facility in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, that opened in 1886 and closed in 1910.
In 1961, Kelso joined Whisk Broom II and Tom Fool as the third horse in history to win the New York Handicap Triple, made up of the Metropolitan Handicap – in which he carried 130 pounds (59 kg), the Suburban Handicap – in which he carried 133 pounds (60 kg) – and the Brooklyn Handicap, in which he carried 136 pounds (62 kg). [10]
He claimed the New York Handicap Triple by winning the Metropolitan Handicap, the Brooklyn Handicap, and the Suburban Handicap, a feat unmatched until Tom Fool achieved it forty years later. Kelso in 1961 and Fit To Fight in 1984 later joined them as the only other horses to win the Handicap Triple. Whisk Broom II's career was ended by injury ...