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Honorable Miss Handicap

Honorable Miss Handicap
Grade II race
Location Saratoga Race Course
Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Inaugurated 1993
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.nyra.com/index_saratoga.html
Race information
Distance 6 furlong sprint
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Three-years-old & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $200,000

The Honorable Miss Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Grade II event is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race six furlongs on the dirt.

The Honorable Miss, named after a winning mare from the Pen-Y-Bryan Farm, was run at six and a half furlongs in 1993, currently carries a purse of $200,000.

The race will be in its 26th running in 2017.

1In 2015, La Verdad finished first but was later disqualified and unplaced for a drug violation.


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