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Toboggan Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1890

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
Six furlong sprint

Purse
  
150,000 USD

Location
  
Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
Aqueduct Racetrack at NYRA

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The Toboggan Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the first week of March at Aqueduct Race Track in Queens, New York. Open to horses aged three and older, the Grade III event is contested over at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt and offers a purse of $150,000 added.

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The 123rd running of The Toboggan Handicap was run in 2016. Before 1896, it was called the Toboggan Slide because it took place on the downhill Eclipse course at Morris Park Racecourse in the Bronx. The Toboggan Slide was not run in 1891 or 1895. The Toboggan Handicap was not run in 1911 and 1912.

In 2015, it was run in early February.

Since inception, the Toboggan Handicap has been contested at two different distances:

  • 6 furlongs : 1890-1993, 2005–present
  • 7 furlongs : 1995-2004

    • Aqueduct racetrack race 3 selections the toboggan handicap 2016 1 18 2016


    Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of 6 furlongs)

  • 1:08.40 - Nance's Lad (1956)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Octagon (1897, 1898)
  • 2 - Banastar (1899, 1901)
  • 2 - High Noon (1915, 1916)
  • 2 - Osmand (1928, 1929)
  • 2 - Okapi (1933, 1934)
  • 2 - Eight Thirty (1940, 1941)
  • 2 - Devil Diver (1943, 1944)
  • 2 - Rippey (1948, 1949)
  • 2 - Boom Towner(1992, 1995)
  • 2 - Affirmed Success (2002, 2003)
  • 2 - Calibrachoa (2011, 2012)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Richard Migliore (1985, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - James G. Rowe, Sr. (1890, 1900, 1913, 1922)
  • 4 - John J. Hyland (1896, 1897, 1898, 1903)
  • 4 - H. Allen Jerkens (1957, 1963, 1969, 1970)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 5 - August Belmont, Jr. and/or Blemton Stable (1896, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1914)

    • References

    Toboggan Handicap Wikipedia
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