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Gallant Fox Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1939

Surface
  
Dirt

Location
  
Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (13 furlongs)

The Gallant Fox Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of December at Aqueduct Racetrack in the Borough of Ozone Park, Queens, New York. An ungraded stakes, it is open to horses age three and older and contested on dirt at a distance of one and five eighths miles. dav Inaugurated in 1939 at the old Jamaica Racetrack, it is named for Gallant Fox, the second winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1930. In 1958, the race was moved to the Aqueduct Racetrack.

Contents

The Gallant Fox Handicap has been raced at various distances:

  •  1 5⁄8 miles : 1939-1947, 1954–1959, 1961 present
  •  1 1⁄16 miles : 1948-1953
  •  1 3⁄4 miles : 1960

    • As a result of bad weather, the 2000 Gallant Fox Handicap was rescheduled and raced on January 1, 2001.

    Records

    Speed record:

    Most wins:

  • 3 - Coyote Lakes (2000, 2001, 2002)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Mike Luzzi (2000, 2002, 2005, 2007)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Max Hirsch (1942, 1946, 1947, 1950)
  • 4 - H. Allen Jerkens (1957, 1958, 1965, 1983)
  • 4 - Bruce N. Levine (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 4 - Roderick J. Valente (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002)

    • Other North American marathon races

    On dirt:

  • Gallant Man Handicap
  • Brooklyn Handicap
  • Fort Harrod Stakes
  • Tokyo City Cup
  • Valedictory Stakes

    • On turf:

  • Canadian International Stakes
  • Carleton F. Burke Handicap

    • References

    Gallant Fox Handicap Wikipedia
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