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Bed O' Roses Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1957

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
7 furlongs

Track
  
left-handed

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

The Bed O' Roses Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run at Belmont Park on Long Island in New York in the spring of the year. The Grade III event is for fillies and Mares four-year-olds and older, and is set at a distance of seven furlongs. Since 1997, the Bed O' Roses has offered a purse of $150,000 added.

The race was named for Alfred G. Vanderbilt II's Hall of Fame inductee, Bed O' Roses, the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly in 1949 and the American Champion Older Female Horse of 1952.

This race was first run at Jamaica Racetrack and continued there until 1959, after which it moved to Aqueduct Racetrack, where it was run until 2010. It was run in two divisions in 1964 and 1979 and its distance for its first three years was a mile and a sixteenth and then again in 1977 and 1978. It was contested at one mile from 1960 through 2005 with the exception of 1984 when it was set at a mile and seventy yards.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:21.98 - By the Moon (2016) (at current distance of 7 furlongs)
  • 1:33.60 - Dixie Flag (1998) (at previous distance of 8 furlongs)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Straight Deal II (1967, 1968)
  • 2 - Lady D'Accord (1992, 1993)
  • 2 - Raging Fever (2002, 2003)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Robbie Davis (1984, 1987, 1994)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 7 - H. Allen Jerkens (1964, 1973, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2004)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Hobeau Farm (1964, 1973, 1995)

    • References

    Bed O' Roses Handicap Wikipedia
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