Lincoln Heritage Handicap

Lincoln Heritage Handicap
Ungraded stakes race
LocationArlington Park
Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
Inaugurated1976
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Websitewww.arlingtonpark.com
Race information
Distance1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up
WeightAssigned
PurseUS$100,000

The Lincoln Heritage Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois. An ungraded stakes raced on turf open to fillies and Mares, age three and older, it is contested over a distance of 1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs).

The 2009 edition had to be moved to the main track's Polytrack synthetic dirt.

Inaugurated in 1976 as the Anita Peabody Handicap, in 1998 it was renamed the Lincoln Heritage Handicap.

In 1980, 1981, 1984, and in 1988, the race was run in two divisions.

Since inception, the race has been contested at various distances on both dirt and turf:

  • 1 mile : 1976, 1987, on turf
  • 1 mile : 1985, 1988, on dirt at Hawthorne Race Course
  • 78 mile : 1977–1978 on dirt
  • 1+116 miles : 1980, on dirt
  • 1+116 miles : 1979–1984, 1986, 1989–2008, on turf
  • 1+116 miles : 2009, on Polytrack synthetic dirt