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Washington Park Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1926

Purse
  
150,000 USD

Website
  
www.arlingtonpark.com

Location
  
Arlington Park Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

Surface
  
Polytrack synthetic dirt

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The Washington Park Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of September at Arlington Park Racetrack in Arlington Heights, Illinois. A Grade III event open to horses age three and older, it is contested on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of a mile and one-eighth (9 furlongs). The race is designed to be a prep for the Breeders' Cup Classic.

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Inaugurated at the now defunct Washington Park Race Track, in 1958 it was moved to Arlington Park. In 1978 and 1979 it was contested on turf.

In 1935 the race was run as the Washington Park Championship Stakes and from 1980 through 1985 as the Washington Park Stakes.

Since inception, the race has been contersted at various distances:

  • 6 furlongs : 1927-1934, 1938;
  • 1 mile : 1951-1958, 1960–1962, 1965–1972;
  •  1 1⁄8 miles : 1939, 1959, 1963–1964, 1975–1977, 1980–1987, 1989–1997, 2000; 2013
  •  1 3⁄16 miles : 1978-1979 (on turf), 2002–present;
  •  1 1⁄4 : 1926, 1935–36, 1940–1950, 1973–74, 2001.

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    Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of  1 3⁄16 miles )

  • 1:53.53 - Suave (2006) (Dirt)
  • 1:55.17 - Lewis Michael (2007) (Polytrack)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Misstep (1929, 1930)
  • 2 - Armed (1946, 1947)
  • 2 - That's A Nice (1979, 1980)
  • 2 - Perfect Drift (2003, 2005)
  • 2 - Gran Estreno (2009, 2010)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Bill Shoemaker (1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1980)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Harry Trotsek (1950, 1974, 1975)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 4 - Calumet Farm (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949)

    • References

    Washington Park Handicap Wikipedia
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