Iroquois Handicap

Iroquois Handicap
Ungraded Stakes race
LocationBelmont Park
Elmont, New York
United States
Inaugurated1979
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Websitewww.nyra.com/index_belmont.html
Race information
Distance7 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares, three-years-old & up
PurseUS$150,000

The Iroquois Handicap run at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York in the fall of the year, is a 7 furlongs (1,400 m) race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares, aged three and up, that are New York-bred. It offers a purse of $125,000.[1]

Set at a mile and an eighth before 1981, at a mile from 1981 to 1984, a mile and 70 yards from 1985 to 1987, at six furlongs from 1989 to 1993, it is now at seven furlongs. In 1996, it ran at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The Iroquois Handicap is named for the Iroquois Indian Nation who still inhabit some of the region that now includes central New York State.

  1. ^ "The Iroquois Stakes history at NYRA, Belmont Park". Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2011-04-26.