Bay Shore Handicap

This article is about the horse race at Aqueduct Racetrack known as the Bay Shore Handicap. For the race since 1960 at Aqueduct with a similar name, see Bay Shore Stakes.
Bay Shore Handicap
Discontinued stakes race
LocationAqueduct Racetrack
Queens, New York, USA
Inaugurated1925 - 1955
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance7 furlongs
TrackDirt, left-handed
QualificationThree-years & older

The Bay Shore Handicap is a discontinued Thoroughbred horse race run from 1925 through 1955 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York City. The race was open to horses age three and older and run on dirt. From 1956 to 1959 there was no Bay Shore Handicap but in 1960 Aqueduct Racetrack created the Bay Shore Handicap/Stakes as a race for three-year-olds.[1][2]

The 1940 race was won by Jacomar, recorded as being owned by Mrs. E. Graham Lewis.[3] Better known as the highly successful cosmetics magnate Elizabeth Arden, she would establish Maine Chance Farm three years later and build it into one of the most successful breeding and racing operations of that era.[4]

The 1943 and 1944 Bay Shore Handicap winners, Wait A Bit and Brownie, were two of the three horses involved in the only triple dead heat on record in a Thoroughbred stakes race when they joined Bossuet to win the 1944 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack.[5]

  1. ^ New York Daily News September 17, 1925 page 158 article on the Bay Shore Handicap Retrieved October 2, 2018
  2. ^ New York Times September 6, 1955 article titled "Red Hannigan Takes Bay Shore Handicap" Retrieved October 2, 2018
  3. ^ The Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal September 8, 1940 page 51 article titled "Jacomar Surprises In Bay Shore 'Cap" Retrieved October 2, 2018
  4. ^ Paulick Report January 22, 2018 article on the history of Maine Chance Farm Retrieved October 3, 2018
  5. ^ New York Daily News June 9, 2015 article titled "Triple dead heat took place at Aqueduct Racetrack in 1944" Retrieved October 3, 2018