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Fleur de Lis Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1975

Track
  
left-handed

Surface
  
Dirt

Location
  
Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

The Fleur de Lis Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-June at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. This Grade II event currently carries a purse of $200,000 added.

Since its inaugural running in 1975, the Fleur de Lis Handicap has been contested at various distances:

  • 1 mile (8 furlongs): 1975–1976
  •  1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs): 1977–1982
  •  1 1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs): 1983–present

    • Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of  1 1⁄8 miles)

  • 1:48.26 - Heritage of Gold (2000)
    • Most wins
  • 2 - Likely Exchange (1978, 1980)

    • References

    Fleur de Lis Handicap Wikipedia
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