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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 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 ...
Some of his top horses include: Manassa Mauler, who won the Wood Memorial Stakes in 1959; Never Bow, the Brooklyn Handicap winner in 1971; Hitchcock, the Suburban Handicap winner in 1972; Autobiography, the nation's Top Older Horse in 1972; Rube the Great, who won the Wood Memorial in 1974; Outstandingly, who won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile ...
Three years later, in 1898, he topped America's jockey's list. Maher was best known in the United States for winning the Metropolitan Handicap on Ethelbert (1900), the Brooklyn Handicap and Toboggan Handicap on Banaster (1899), the Champagne Stakes on Lothario (1898), and the Ladies Handicap on Oneck Queen (1900). Maher was America's leading ...