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Hollie Hughes Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1979

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
6 furlongs

Location
  
Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html

The Hollie Hughes Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 1979 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. A six furlong sprint raced on dirt, it is open to horses bred in the State of New York age four and older. Run in mid February, then in mid January, now returned to the month of February, the race currently offers a purse of $100,000.

The race is named in honor of New York native Hollie Hughes, a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who trained horses from a New York base for 70 years.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:08.60 - Stalwart Member (1997)

    • Most wins:

  • 3 - Papua (2003, 2004, 2005)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Junior Alvarado (2011, 2013, 2014, 2016)
  • 3 - Angel Cordero, Jr. (1981, 1983, 1989)
  • 3 - Richard Migliore (1994, 2003, 2005)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - Michael E. Hushion (1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2014)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 5 - Barry K. Schwartz (1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2014)

    • References

    Hollie Hughes Handicap Wikipedia
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