Jamaica Handicap

Date: October 04, 08
Post:
Purse: $300,000
Grade: II
Type: T
Distance: 1 1/8 Miles
Age: 3 Year Olds
Sex:
Turf: turf

Notes
The Jamaica Handicap is a grade II horseracing meet that takes place each fall at Belmont Park, New York. This race is for three-year-old horses willing to run one and one eighth miles on the turf. The Jamaica Handicap is named for the Jamaica District in Queens, New York. The Jamaica Handicap was not run between 1933 and 1935, in 1955 and 1956, between 1961 and 1975 and in 1995. The race was run at the old Jamaica Racetrack between 1929 and 1953 and 1957 to 1960. Distance and ages of participating horses also changed in due course of years.