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Falls City Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1875

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.churchilldowns.com

Location
  
Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

The Falls City Handicap is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of November at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. A Grade II event, the race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. It was run in two divisions in 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1982 and 1985.

Records

  • 1:48.85 - Silent Eskimo (1999)
  • Most wins
  • 3 - Indian Maid (1959, 1960, 1961)
  • Most wins by a jockey
  • 7 - Don Brumfield
  • 5 - Calvin Borel (1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008)
  • References

    Falls City Handicap Wikipedia


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