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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]
At ages five and six he won just three times but most significantly was ridden to victory by Fred Taral in the 1896 Brooklyn Handicap. Already having beaten Keene Stables' great Champion , Domino , on October 29, 1897, a seven-year-old Sir Walter beat the four-year-old Hastings in a handicap race at Morris Park Racetrack.
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 ...
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 ...
"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]
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.
As a gelding, Exterminator competed in 99 races, winning 50 while finishing second and third 17 times each. His lifetime earnings amounted to $252,996. Beaten in the Brooklyn Handicap by Grey Lag once, Exterminator got better with age and later defeated Grey Lag in the same race. Following the retirement of trainer Henry McDaniel, in 1921 ...