Suburban Handicap Top Three Finishers
This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Suburban Handicap, an United States, American Graded stakes race, Grade 2 race for three-year-olds at 1-1/8 miles on synthetic surface held at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.Stakes Histories, The Original Racing Almanac 2009, page 467 on June 26, 2008. (List 1973–present) References {{reflist June 17, 1904 ''New York Times'' article on the history of the Suburban Handicap
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Suburban Handicap
The Suburban Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to horses age three and older, it is now run at the mile distance on dirt for a $700,000 purse. Named after the City and Suburban Handicap in England, the Suburban had its 133rd running in 2019. Inaugurated at the Sheepshead Bay Race Track in 1884, it was run there through 1910. However, the 1908 passage of the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation by the New York Legislature under Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes led to a state-wide shutdown of racing in 1911 and 1912. A February 21, 1913 ruling by the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division saw horse racing return in 1913. Nevertheless, it was too late for the Sheepshead Bay horse racing facility and it never reopened. The race was picked up by the operators of Belmont Park where it was run in 1913. Not run the following year it was hosted by the Empire City Race Track in 1915 before returning ...
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