Diana Handicap - United States, New York

Races - United States - New York

When: 11h00, Saturday, 26 July 2008

Where: Saratoga Race Course, New York, United States

Description:

The beautiful Diana Handicap is appropriately named after the mythical goddess ‘Diana’ as it is specifically only open to fillies and mares of three years of age and older.

It was in the early 1939 that the Diana Handicap was first inaugurated. It covers a distance of one and one-eighth miles. Today the Handicap race is regarded as s Grade I and carries a purse of $500 000.00.


Interestingly, from the time of its inception in 1939, the race took place mainly at Saratoga’s main track. Fillies and mares were required to cover a mile and a furlong in distance, this took place until 1973. However during World War II from 1943 – 1945 the race was run at the famous Belmont Park.


 

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