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Gallant Bloom Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1994

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
6.5 furlongs

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/Belmont/Stakes/GallantBloom.shtml

The Gallant Bloom Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late September at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. A Grade II event open to fillies and mares age three and up, it is contested at a distance of six and a half furlongs on the dirt.

Gallant Bloom won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Filly champion of 1968, the 1969 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and the 1969 American Champion Older Female Horse. In The Blood-Horse ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Gallant Bloon is ranked #79.

The inaugural race was run at six furlongs in 1994.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 6.5 furlongs)

  • 1:14.71 - Dust and Diamonds (2012)
  • Most wins:

  • 2 - Indian Blessing (2008, 2009)
  • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 5 - John Velazquez (1997, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2016)
  • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - John C. Kimmel (1996, 1998)
  • 2 - Bob Baffert (2008, 2009)
  • 3 - Steven Asmussen (2004, 2012, 2013)
  • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Patti & Hal Earnhardt III (2008, 2009)
  • References

    Gallant Bloom Handicap Wikipedia