Top Flight Handicap

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Grade II race
Top Flight Handicap
Location	Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York
Inaugurated	1940
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website	Aqueduct Racetrack at NYRA
Race information
Distance	1 mile (8 furlongs)
Track	Dirt, left-handed
Qualification	Fillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up
Weight	Assigned
Purse	$150,000

The Top Flight Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. The Grade II event is open to fillies and mares, age three and older. It is contested over a distance of one mile on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $150,000.

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.

In its 69th running in 2008, 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.

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