Gallant Bloom Handicap
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The Gallant Bloom Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race open to fillies and mares age three and up, and is run each fall at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York for a purse of $150,000. A Grade II event, it is set at a distance of six and a half furlongs on the dirt.
Gallant Bloom won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Filly champion of 1968, the 1969 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and the 1969 American Champion Older Female Horse. In The Blood-Horse ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Gallant Bloon is ranked #79.
The first time this race was run it was set at the distance of six furlongs in 1994, but changed to 6 ½ furlongs in 1995.
[edit] Past winners
Winners of the Gallant Bloom are:
- 2007 - Jazzy (ARG) (Garett Gomez)
- 2006 - Great Intentions (Javier Castellano)
- 2005 - Umpateedle (Aaron Gryder)
- 2004 - Lady Tak (John Velazquez)
- 2003 - Harmony Lodge (Richard Migliore)
- 2002 - Nasty Storm (Jose Santos)
- 2001 - Finder's Fee (John Velazquez)
- 2000 - Dream Supreme (Pat Day)
- 1999 - Positive Gal (Jerry Bailey)
- 1998 - Catinca (Richard Migliorel)
- 1997 - Top Secret (John Velazquez)
- 1996 - Miss Golden Circle (Richard Migliore)
- 1995 - Classy Mirage (Jerry Bailey)
- 1994 - Vivano (Herb McCauley)
