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Violet Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1977

Surface
  
Turf

Website
  
www.thebigm.com

Purse
  
150,000 USD

Location
  
Meadowlands Racetrack East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

Beauty generation won the violet handicap on jan 8 class 2 1600m


The Violet Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the second week of October at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Inaugurated in 1977, the current Grade III event is open to fillies and mares age three and older and is raced on turf over a distance of  1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

Contents

The Violet Handicap was raced on dirt in 1977, 1993, 1999 and was run in two divisions in 1980, 1982 through 1985, 1987 and 1988.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:39.60 - Gather The Clan (1989)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Humoristic (2005, 2007)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Walter Haefner (1977, 1985)
  • 2 - Edward P. Evans (1985, 1987)
  • 2 - Bonner Farm (1990, 1992)
  • 2 - Erdenheim Farm (1996, 1997)
  • 2 - Mrs. Arturo Peralta-Ramos (2005, 2007)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 5 - Jean-Luc Samyn (1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Philip G. Johnson (1983, 1985, 1987)
  • 3 - Barclay Tagg (1990, 1992, 2004)

    • References

    Violet Handicap Wikipedia
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