The Bay Shore Handicap is a discontinued

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run from 1925 through 1955 at

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. 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. The 1940 race was won by Jacomar, recorded as being owned by Mrs. E. Graham Lewis. Better known as the highly successful cosmetics magnate

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, she would establish

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three years later and build it into one of the most successful breeding and racing operations of that era. 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

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when they joined Bossuet to win the 1944

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at Aqueduct Racetrack.''New York Daily News'' June 9, 2015 article titled "Triple dead heat took place at Aqueduct Racetrack in 1944"
Retrieved October 3, 2018

Records

Speed record: (at 7 furlongs) *1:22.40 - Wait A Bit (1943) Most wins: * No horse ever won this race more than once Most wins by a

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: * 3 -

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(1944, 1949, 1952) Most wins by a trainer: * 3 - James E. Fitzsimmons (1929, 1933, 1945) Most wins by an owner: * 2 -

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(1949, 1952) * 2 -

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(1933, 1945) * 2 -

Greentree Stable Greentree Stable, in Red Bank, New Jersey, was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Sar ...

(1939, 1948) * 2 -

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(1925, 1927) * 2 - William L. Brann (1941, 1946)

Winners

References

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