Top Flight Handicap

The Top Flight Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. The Grade III event is run in the early spring and is open to fillies and mares, age three and older. It is contested over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $200,000.

The Top Flight Handicap was run at Belmont Park at a mile and a sixteenth prior to 1961. From 1961 to 1993, it was run at a mile and an eighth. Again in 2012, the race was run at a mile and a sixteenth. In 2015 it reverted to a mile and an eighth.

In its 78th running in 2017, the race in named for Top Flight, ranked in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century at #66. Top Flight was never beaten by a member of her own sex.

Records

Speed record: (at distance of 1 mile)

• 1:34.96 - Educated Risk (1994)

Most wins:

• 2 - Amerigo Lady (1968, 1969)
• 2 - Shuvee (1970, 1971)

Most wins by a jockey:

• 6 - Jerry Bailey (1990, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005)

Most wins by a trainer:

• 3 - Hirsch Jacobs (1956, 1965, 1967)
• 3 - J. Elliott Burch (1959, 1968, 1969)
• 3 - [[H.
• 3 - John C. Kimmel (1995, 1996, 1998)Allen Jerkens]] (1973, 1985, 1997)
• 4 - C. R. McGaughey III (1994, 2001, 2004, 2016)

Most wins by an owner:

• 3 - Ethel D. Jacobs (1956, 1965, 1967)
• 3 - Rokeby Stable (1968, 1969, 1993)

Winners

References

• The 2008 Top Flight Handicap at the NTRA