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Grand National Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1866

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
1 ⁄2 miles

Track
  
left-handed

Location
  
Jerome Park RacetrackFordham, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

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The Grand National Handicap was an American Thoroughbred race horse first run in 1866 at the newly built Jerome Park Racetrack in Fordham, New York. Open to horses age three and older, the race was contested on dirt at a distance of 2 14 miles from inception through 1884. In the late 1880s, there was a growing shortage of handicap horses and track officials shortened the race in an attempt to draw more entrants. In 1885 it was run at 1 34 miles, and for its final four years from 1886 through 1889 at 1 12 miles.

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Because Jerome Park Racetrack had a number of viability problems and did not reopen in 1890, the last time the Grand National Handicap was run was in 1889.

In winning the final two editions of the Grand National Handicap in 1888 and 1889, Raceland defeated the future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly, Firenze.

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References

Grand National Handicap Wikipedia


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