Great Eastern Handicap

Great Eastern Handicap
Discontinued stakes race
LocationSheepshead Bay Race Track, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York
Inaugurated1883–1909
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Race information
Distance6 furlongs
TrackDirt, left-handed
QualificationTwo years old
PurseUS$2,000

The Great Eastern Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run in 1883 at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. A race for two-year-old horses of either sex, it was run on dirt over a distance of 6 furlongs.[1]

  1. ^ "Condensed History Of The Great Eastern Handicap". Daily Racing Form. 1908-09-11. Retrieved 2019-07-27 – via University of Kentucky Archives.