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Brighton Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1896

Track
  
left-handed

Surface
  
Dirt

Location
  
Brighton Beach Race Course, Brighton Beach, New York, United States (1896-1907) - and - Empire City Race Track, Yonkers, New York, United States (1910)

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄4 miles (10 furlongs)

The Brighton Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually from 1895 through 1907 at the Brighton Beach Race Course in Brighton Beach, Coney Island, New York and in 1910 at Empire City Race Track. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt over a distance of a mile and a quarter (ten furlongs).

In the late 19th and early part of the 20th century, the Brighton Handicap, along with the Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay Race Track and the Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park Racecourse, were the big three events of the Northeastern United States racing season.

Records

Speed record:

  • 2:02.80 - Broomstick (1904)
  • Most wins:

  • No horse won this race more than once.
  • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 2 - Willie Simms (1897, 1898)
  • 2 - George Odom (1902, 1903)
  • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - James G. Rowe, Sr. (1901, 1907)
  • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - James R. Keene (1901, 1907)
  • References

    Brighton Handicap Wikipedia