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Next Move Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1975

Purse
  
100,000 USD

Surface
  
Dirt

Location
  
Aqueduct Racetrack Ozone Park, Queens, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

The Next Move Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. A Grade III event open to fillies and Mares, age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of one mile and one furlong. It offers a purse of $100,000.

Inaugurated in 1975, the race was restricted to three-year-old fillies at one mile in 1975. It was contested at a mile and three sixteenths from 1984 through 1994.

The race is named in honor of the filly Next Move who was the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1950 and the American Co-Champion Older Female Horse in 1952.

Since inception, the Next Move Handicap has been contested at various distances:

  • 1 mile : 1975
  •  1 1⁄8 miles : 1976-1983, 1995–present
  •  1 3⁄16 miles : 1984-1994

    • On December 4, 2009 the New York Racing Association announced that the Next Move Handicap was being placed on hiatus.

    Records

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

  • 1:48.96 - Diggins (1999)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - One Sum (1978, 1979)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Ruben Hernandez (1976, 1978, 1979, 1981)
  • 4 - Mike Luzzi (1994, 1995, 2007, 2009)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Todd A. Pletcher (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Charles T. Wilson Jr. (1978, 1979)
  • 2 - Nelson Bunker Hunt (1980, 1984)
  • 2 - H. Joseph Allen (1981, 1982)
  • 2 - Edward P. Evans (1998, 2002)
  • 2 - Dogwood Stable (2003, 2004)

    • References

    Next Move Handicap Wikipedia
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