Hialeah Park Race Track Hialeah, Florida, United States
Inaugurated
1926
Race type
Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Race information
Distance
1+3⁄16 miles (9.5 furlongs)
Surface
Turf
Track
Left-handed
Qualification
Three-years-old & up
Weight
Handicap
Purse
US$200,000
The Hialeah Turf Cup Handicap is a discontinued American Thoroughbred horse race open to horses aged three and older that was run each year at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida until the track closed at the end of the 2001 racing season. At the time, it was the oldest grass race in America.
The race was inaugurated as the Miami Cup Handicap ion March 13, 1926 and was open to horses age three and older. In addition to the President's gold cup, winner Boon Companion received what at the time was a very sizeable winner's purse of $24,950.[1] From 1929 through 1952 it was run as the Miami Beach Handicap then in 1953 was renamed the Hialeah Turf Cup Handicap.[2] The race was run on dirt until 1939 when it was permanently moved to the turf. It was a Grade 1 event in 1989 when financial difficulties saw racing at Hialeah Park suspended. On resumption in 1992, the race lost its graded stakes status.
Run in two divisions in 1944, the race was contested at different distances:
1 mile – 1932–1938
1 mile, 70 yards – 1929–1931
1+1⁄16 miles – 1926, 1939–1944
1+1⁄8 miles – 1927
1+3⁄16 miles – 1995–1999, 2001
1+1⁄4 miles – 1946
1+3⁄8 miles – 2000
1+1⁄2 miles – 1947–1994
^"Miami Cup Captured by Boon Companion; Cowan Colt Wins $24,950 by Beating Superfrank in Richest Stake of Meeting". New York Times. 1926-03-14. Section 10 Sports, page 1. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
^Miami Daily News – March 2, 1954
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