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Essex Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1948

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.oaklawn.com

Location
  
Oaklawn Park Race Track Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Essex Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the first week of February at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Open to horses age four and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of 1 116 miles (8.5 furlongs).

Inaugurated in 1948 as the Southland Handicap, its name was changed to the Essex beginning with the 1974 edition.

References

Essex Handicap Wikipedia