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Gallant Fox Handicap

Gallant Fox Handicap
Ungraded stakes race
Location Aqueduct Racetrack
Queens, New York, United States
Inaugurated 1939
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html
Race information
Distance 1 58 miles (13 furlongs)
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Three-years-old & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $65,000

The Gallant Fox Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of December at Aqueduct Racetrack in the Borough of Ozone Park, Queens, New York. An ungraded stakes, it is open to horses age three and older and contested on dirt at a distance of one and five eighths miles. dav Inaugurated in 1939 at the old Jamaica Racetrack, it is named for Gallant Fox, the second winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1930. In 1958, the race was moved to the Aqueduct Racetrack.

The Gallant Fox Handicap has been raced at various distances:

As a result of bad weather, the 2000 Gallant Fox Handicap was rescheduled and raced on January 1, 2001.

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