Gulfstream Park Hallandale Beach, Florida, United States
Inaugurated
1990
Race type
Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Website
www.gulfstreampark.com
Race information
Distance
6.5 furlong sprint
Surface
Dirt
Track
left-handed
Qualification
Four-years-old & up
Weight
Assigned
Purse
$100,000
The Deputy Minister Handicap was a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early February at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The race was open to horses age four and older and contested on dirt over a distance of six and one-half furlongs.
The race was named in honor of Deputy Minister who raced in Florida and won Gulfstream Park's Donn Handicap. Deputy Minister was the 1981 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and the Canadian Two-Year Old Champion and Canadian Horse of the Year and was the Leading sire in North America in 1997 and 1998 and the Leading broodmare sire in North America in 2007.
Since inception, the event has been contested at different distances:
6 furlongs: 1994–1998
6.5 furlongs : 2000 to present
7 furlongs : 1990–1993, 1998–1999
The race is not on the 2008 list of stakes races at Gulfstream Park.
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