Girish Mahajan (Editor)

Top Flight Handicap

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Inaugurated
  
1940

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 mile

Purse
  
200,000 USD (2013)

Location
  
Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html

House rules 2015 top flight handicap


The Top Flight Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. The Grade III event is run in the early spring and is open to fillies and mares, age three and older. It is contested over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $200,000.

Contents

The Top Flight Handicap was run at Belmont Park at a mile and a sixteenth prior to 1961. From 1961 to 1993, it was run at a mile and an eighth. Again in 2012, the race was run at a mile and a sixteenth. In 2015 it reverted to a mile and an eighth.

In its 78th running in 2017, the race in named for Top Flight, ranked in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century at #66. Top Flight was never beaten by a member of her own sex.

2012 top flight handicap it s tricky


Records

Speed record: (at distance of 1 mile)

  • 1:34.96 - Educated Risk (1994)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Amerigo Lady (1968, 1969)
  • 2 - Shuvee (1970, 1971)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Jerry Bailey (1990, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Hirsch Jacobs (1956, 1965, 1967)
  • 3 - J. Elliott Burch (1959, 1968, 1969)
  • 3 - [[H.
  • 3 - John C. Kimmel (1995, 1996, 1998)Allen Jerkens]] (1973, 1985, 1997)
  • 4 - C. R. McGaughey III (1994, 2001, 2004, 2016)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Ethel D. Jacobs (1956, 1965, 1967)
  • 3 - Rokeby Stable (1968, 1969, 1993)

    • References

    Top Flight Handicap Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA