Tropical Turf Handicap
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The Tropical Turf Handicap is a American Grade IIIT Thoroughbred horse race run on the turf course at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida each year.
Open to three-year-old horses and up, it is set at a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) and offers a purse of $100,000.
The Tropical Turf is the last of the four $100,000 stakes races on Calder’s “Grand Slam I program.” The My Charmer Handicap is the first, the Three Ring Stakes second, and the Foolish Pleasure Stakes third.
[edit] Past winners
- 2007 – Ballast (IRE) (6) (Kent Desormeaux)
- 2006 – Ballast (5)
- 2005 – Silver Tree
- 2004 – Host (John Velazquez)
- 2003 – Political Attack (Rene Douglas)
- 2002 – Krieger (Eibar Coa)
- 2001 – Band Is Passing (Carlos Gonzalez)
- 2000 - Stokosky (Carlos Hernandez)
- 1999 - Hibernian Rhapsody
- 1998 – Unite’s Big Red (Eduardo Nunez)
- 1997 – Sir Cat (race run on the main track due to rain ruined turf course)
- 1996 – Mecke (5) (beating Grindstone, winner of the 1996 Kentucky Derby)
- 1995 – Mecke (4)
- 1994 – Mecke (3)
- 1993 – Carterista (Wigberto Ramos)
