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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 ...
Among the major graded stakes races launched at the track were the Astoria Stakes, Brooklyn Handicap, Brooklyn Derby, Tremont Stakes, and the Gazelle Handicap. For the fifteen years from 1894 through 1908, Gravesend Race Track hosted one of the American Classic Races , the Preakness Stakes .
It is known as a "stallion-making race" as the distance of a mile often displays the winner's "brilliance", referring to an exceptional turn of foot. Winners of the race who went on to become notable stallions include Tom Fool (1953), Native Dancer (1954), Buckpasser (1967), Fappiano (1981), Gulch (1987–88), and Ghostzapper (2005).
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The Tom Fool Handicap is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for four-year-olds and older at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt run annually in early March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. The event currently offers a purse of $200,000.
Matriarch Handicap: 3 1991, 1992, 1993 [111] Flawlessly: Ramona Handicap: 3 1992, 1993, 1994 [111] Flying Halo William Reid Stakes: 3 1952, 1953, 1955 [citation needed] Forego: Brooklyn Handicap: 3 1974, 1975, 1976 [22] Game Ormond Memorial Gold Cup 3 1969, 1970, 1971 [citation needed] Game On Dude: Santa Anita Handicap: 3 2011, 2013, 2014 [112 ...
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