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Gulfstream Park opened on February 1, 1939, conducting a four-day meeting. [4] Its initial meeting attracted a crowd of 18,000. In 1944, the track was reopened by James Donn Sr. for a 20-day meeting in December. [4] In 1952, a clubhouse was erected and an addition was put on the grandstand. Gulfstream Park introduced turf racing in 1959.
The Gulfstream Park Mile Stakes (formerly known as the Gulfstream Park Handicap) is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Gulfstream Park each year. The race is open to horses age four and up, willing to race one mile on the dirt. A Grade II event run in early March, it currently offers a purse of $200,000.
This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Gulfstream Park Handicap, an American Grade 2 race for horses four years old and older at 1 mile on the dirt, held at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. [1] (List 1973–present)
Cigar started 1995 on January 22 in a 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 mile allowance race at Gulfstream Park in January, which he won by two lengths. [18] He then faced the 1994 American Horse of the Year Holy Bull in the Donn Handicap on February 11 at 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles. Holy Bull was heavily favored based on his dominant 1994 campaign, with Cigar going off at 4-1.
The Donn Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually from 1959 through 2016 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida.A race for horses age four and older, it was contested on turf from inception through 1964 at a distance of a mile and one-half.
It was inaugurated on 7 January 1986 as the Tropical Park Handicap and was run at Calder Race Course on turf at a distance of "about" 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles. In 1987, it was switched to dirt and set at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles.
The purse for the original dirt race was reduced to $9 million, with the other $7 million in purse money was allocated to the new Pegasus World Cup Turf race (formerly the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap), and another $1 million is available as bonus money should an owner win both races. The entry fee was reduced to $500,000, with 24 entries ...
The Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Stakes is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for horses four-years-old and older at the distance of five furlongs on the turf held annually in February at Gulfstream Park, Hallandale Beach, Florida. The event currently carries a purse of $165,000.