The Empire Classic Handicap is a Thoroughbred horse race restricted to New York breeds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Set at a distance of one and one eighth miles on the dirt, this ungraded stakes race is open to three-year-olds and up, and currently offers a purse of $300,000.
Inaugurated in 1976 as the Empire Stakes, the Empire Classic (renamed in 1994) ran as a six furlong event for two-year-olds from 1976 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1993. It was run at Belmont Park from 1989 to 1991, from 1993 to 1995, and from 1997 to the present. Saratoga Race Course hosted the event in 1992 and Aqueduct Racetrack in 1996. When it was renamed in 1994, it also changed its distance to nine furlongs.
The Empire Classic is named after New York state's nickname, "The Empire State".
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The EmpireClassicHandicap is a Thoroughbred horse race restricted to New York breeds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Set at a distance of one...
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York-bred horses. The richest race on that program is the $250,000 EmpireClassicHandicap. Other memorable performances in Belmont Park history include the...
filly, he in 2002 he won the Barbara Fritchie Handicap, the Genuine Risk Handicap and Vagrancy Handicap and the Endine Stakes at Delaware Park Racetrack...
then known as the New York Handicap Triple with wins in the Metropolitan Handicap, Suburban Handicap and Brooklyn Handicap. He also would carry Mellon's...
Unbridled won the Deputy Minister Handicap at Gulfstream Park and placed second behind Summer Squall in the Fayette Handicap at Keeneland Race Course. Unbridled...
Mile Handicap, sire of Real Quiet; Some Romance (b. 1986) – won Frizette Stakes, Matron Stakes; Defensive Play (b. 1987) – won Sandown Classic Trial...
and was second in the Grade III Kentucky Cup Classic Stakes and the Grade III Philip H. Iselin Handicap. At five, he took the Grade II Commonwealth Breeders'...
(1998), Gran Premio del Jockey Club (1998) Single Empire – San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap (1999) Leading progeny of participants in the 1997...
2005 Suburban Handicap Leading progeny of participants in the 2003 Kentucky Derby Empire Maker Royal Delta – 2011 Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic, Alabama Stakes...
racehorse. The daughter of Empire Maker was best known for winning back-to-back editions of the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (later renamed the Breeders'...
Juddmonte Farms, Empire Maker was sired by champion Unbridled, winner of the 1990 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic. Empire Maker's dam, Toussaud...
mile and one-eighth with a time of 1:48 1/5 in winning the Massachusetts Handicap. Whirlaway and Alsab continued their 1941 rivalry through 1942. On September...
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