Black Helen Handicap

Black Helen Handicap
Discontinued stakes race
LocationHialeah Park Race Track
Hialeah, Florida, United States
Inaugurated1941
Race typeThoroughbred – Flat racing
Race information
Distance1⅛ miles (9 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares, three-years-old & up

The Black Helen Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida, from 1941 through 2001. Open to fillies and mares age three and older, the Grade II event was raced on turf at a distance of a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs).[1]

The race was named for Edward R. Bradley's U.S. Racing Hall of Fame mare Black Helen. The inaugural running took place on February 8, 1941, and was won by Sweet Willow at a distance of seven furlongs.[2] The following year the race was run at a mile and an eighth and would remain at that distance for all subsequent editions.[3]

  1. ^ "Miami Stake Goes To Sweet Willow". The New York Times, Section Sports, page 1. 1941-02-09. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  2. ^ "Miami Stake Goes To Sweet Willow". The New York Times. 1941-02-09. p. Section Sports, page 1. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  3. ^ "Pomayya Captures $12,575 Black Helen Handicap at Hialeah Park". The New York Times, Section Sports, page 20. 1942-03-03. Retrieved 2019-08-30.