Yankee Handicap
The Yankee Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run at the 1935 opening meet of Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Massachusetts. A race for three-year-olds, it was contested on dirt at a mile and an eighth. (9 furlongs). Usually held on the Columbus Day holiday, a February 19, 1989 issue of the Boston Globe said that the Yankee Handicap "used to be the hallmark of the fall [racing] season."[1]
Last run in 1987,[2] the Yankee Handicap was won by stars such as Cravat (1938), Challedon (1939), Our Boots (1941), Shut Out (1942), who broke the track record,[3] Never Bend (1963) and the ill-fated Timely Writer (1982).[4]