New Rochelle Handicap

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| class = Discontinued stakes

| horse race = New Rochelle Handicap

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| location = Morris Park 1893-1904
Belmont Park 1905-1910, 1923
Empire City 1918-1922, 1924-1942
Jamaica 1943-

| inaugurated = 1899

| race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing

| distance = 6 furlongs (3/4 mile)

| surface = Dirt

| track = Left-handed

| qualification = Three-year-olds & up

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The New Rochelle Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run at a distance of seven furlongs on dirt in 1899 at Morris Park Racecourse in The Bronx.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E0D71030E333A25754C1A9639C94689ED7CF New York Times - May 17, 1899] When that racetrack closed in 1904 the race was transferred to Belmont Park in Elmont, New York where it remained through 1910 until further restrictions were added to the Hart–Agnew Law by the New York Legislature that ended all racing in New York State.[http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/the-first-american-triple-crown-series/?pagemode=print New York Times - May 24, 2009] Although racing returned in 1913, the New Rochelle Handicap was not run again until 1918 when the Empire Racing Association revived it at its Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E04E1DA1539E13ABC4B51DFB6678383609EDE New York Times - October 23, 1918] The 1923 race was transferred to Belmont Park.[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A1FFC3E5416738DDDA80A94D8415B838EF1D3 New York Times - October 21, 1923] In 1943, the race was moved to the Empire Racing Association's Jamaica Race Course in Jamaica, New York which closed on August 2, 1959.[https://www.nytimes.com/1959/08/02/archives/final-racing-card-at-jamaica-stirs-memories-of-56year-history-of.html New York Times - August 2, 1959]

In its final decade, the New Rochelle Handicap was contested at a distance of six furlongs.