Discontinued Grade 3 stakes race | |
Location | Hialeah Park Hialeah, Florida |
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Inaugurated | 1940 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Race information | |
Distance | 1⅛ miles (9 furlongs) |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Left-handed |
Qualification | Three years old & up |
Purse | US$100,000 |
The Bougainvillea Handicap was a Thoroughbred horse race run between 1940 and 2001 at Hialeah Park in Hialeah, Florida. A race for horses age three and older, it was run at a distance of 1 1/8 miles on turf. The race was named for the purple bougainvillea flower which is an integral part of the track's floral blueprint.[1]