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21-757: Named after the City and Suburban Handicap in England, the Suburban had its 133rd running in 2019. Inaugurated at the Sheepshead Bay Race Track in 1884, it was run there through 1910. However, the 1908 passage of the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation by the New York Legislature under Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes led to a state-wide shutdown of racing in 1911 and 1912. A February 21, 1913 ruling by

42-647: A jockey : Most wins by a trainer : Most wins by an owner: Sheepshead Bay Race Track The Sheepshead Bay Race Track was an American Thoroughbred horse racing facility built on the site of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn , New York. The racetrack was built by a group of prominent businessmen from the New York City area who formed the Coney Island Jockey Club in 1879. Led by Leonard Jerome , James R. Keene , and

63-622: A larger purse than that of the Belmont Stakes . The New York Times reported that attendance for the day of the inaugural running was at least the equal of the largest crowd to ever attend a race at the Sheepshead Bay facility and that the caterer sold the following food: The Futurity Stakes was hosted by the Sheepshead Bay Race Track until the track's closure following a statewide ban on parimutuel betting through enactment of

84-533: A time of 157.00. In 1908, the administration of Governor Charles Evans Hughes signed into law the Hart–Agnew bill that effectively banned all racetrack betting in the state of New York . The legislation allowed for fines and up to a year in prison which was strictly enforced. Compounding matters for the Sheepshead Bay track was intense competition. In a summary of 1909 racing, the Daily Racing Form reported that "Sheepshead Bay, which for years led

105-583: Is currently held at Belmont Park. The new owner converted the horse track to a board automobile race track . Several auto races were held from October 1915, through September 1919, including the Astor Cup Race and the Harkness Trophy Race . The Sheepshead Bay Speedway Corporation ran into financial difficulties following the death of its majority shareholder Harry Harkness in January 1919. The property

126-474: Is raced on turf over a distance of six furlongs . The creation of James G. K. Lawrence, president of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track , the Futurity was originally run with the two-year-old offspring of mares which had been nominated before their birth. This rule remained in effect until 1957, when the race was opened to all two-year-old horses. The Futurity was run as a turf race for the first time in 2018. It

147-762: Is the Laurel Futurity at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland . Prior to the advent of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile , the Belmont Futurity was one of the United States' most important dirt races for two-year-olds. Some of the greatest Thoroughbreds in American racing history have won the race including Colin , Native Dancer , Man o' War and U.S. Triple Crown champions Affirmed , Secretariat , and Citation . In 2001,

168-639: The Daily Racing Form called one of the most famous racetracks in the history of the American turf, was purchased for real estate development . The facility was torn down and the land subdivided into building lots . Stakes race titles Ŧ One of the three Sheepshead Bay Autumn Serials. In 1959, the Sheepshead Bay Handicap was named in honor of the old racetrack, and first run at the now-defunct Jamaica Race Course in Jamaica, New York . It, too,

189-563: The Futurity Stakes , first run on Labor Day in 1888. At the time, the Futurity was the richest race ever run in the United States. Today, both the Suburban and the Futurity are ongoing Graded stakes races held at the Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont on Long Island . The Lawrence Realization Stakes was named for James G. K. Lawrence. On June 10, 1886 the Coney Island Jockey Club opened

210-687: The Hart–Agnew Law by the New York Legislature . It was switched to the Saratoga Race Course for 1910 but was not raced for the next two years until the State Legislature lifted the ban. Held at Saratoga in 1913 and 1914, it was them moved to Belmont Park . In 1959 and 1960, plus from 1962 to 1967, the race was hosted by the Aqueduct Racetrack before returning to Belmont Park where it has since remained. The race's counterpart on turf

231-731: The New York Handicap Triple series of races as it follows the Metropolitan Handicap and the Brooklyn Handicap . Four horses have won the Handicap Triple: The list of former winners is like a who's who of the race horse world, featuring some of American racing's greatest champions. The first mare to win the Suburban Handicap was the great Hall of Famer , Imp . Speed record: Most wins: Most wins by

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252-537: The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division saw horse racing return in 1913. Nevertheless, it was too late for the Sheepshead Bay horse racing facility and it never reopened. The race was picked up by the operators of Belmont Park where it was run in 1913. Not run the following year it was hosted by the Empire City Race Track in 1915 before returning to Belmont Park. It has remained there except for

273-482: The country in daily average distribution, yielded first place in 1909 to Belmont Park, which August Belmont and his associates are ambitious to make the "turf headquarters of America"." A 1910 amendment to the Hart–Agnew legislation added further restrictions that made the owners and directors of a racetrack personally liable for any betting done on their premises, with or without their consent. Such an onerous liability

294-478: The first turf racecourse in the United States. The Club replaced the Sheepshead Bay steeplechase course with a one-mile turf course, built inside the existing main dirt track. The Green Grass Stakes was the first race on turf and was run as part of the June 10 opening day program. A race for three-year-old horses, it was contested at a distance of a mile and an eighth and was won by Emory & Cotton's Dry Monopole in

315-399: The races of 1961 to 1974 and 1976 when it was run at Aqueduct Racetrack . The Suburban Handicap was contested at a distance of one and one half miles in 1975 and at a mile and three-sixteenths in 1976. Beginning in 1978, the race was started on Belmont Park's clubhouse turn. The event was renamed from the Suburban Handicap in 2017. The race is the final of the three races that once composed

336-415: The racetrack indicates the entrance to the club was located on the east side of Ocean Avenue between Avenues X and Y. The Sheepshead Bay Race Track station contained six tracks and three island platforms . In its first year of operations, the new Sheepshead Bay track hosted a 1½ mile match race between two of the top horses racing at the time in the United States. The Dwyer Brothers' Luke Blackburn

357-579: The track's president, William Kissam Vanderbilt , the Club held seasonal race cards at nearby Prospect Park fairgrounds until construction of the new race course was completed. On June 19, 1880 the track hosted its first day of Thoroughbred racing . Old maps and railroad track diagrams for the Manhattan Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road showing the spur that served both the club and

378-486: Was added to the Breeders' Cup Challenge series for 2018 as a "Win and You're In" qualifier for the Juvenile Turf Sprint . The first edition of the Futurity took place on Labor Day in 1888. The New York Times reported that one quarter of those in attendance were women. The richest race ever run in the United States to that time, the owners of winner Proctor Knott collected $ 41,675. Until 1956, this race had

399-504: Was intolerable and meant that by 1911 all racetracks in the state ceased operations. Although a February 21, 1913 ruling by the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division paved the way for racing to resume that year, by then it was too late for horse racing at the Sheepshead Bay Race Track and it was ultimately sold to the Sheepshead Bay Speedway Corporation who used it for automobile racing. In December 1919, what

420-498: Was ridden by Jim McLaughlin , and Pierre Lorillard's Uncas was ridden by Tom Costello . Luke Blackburn won by twenty lengths. Sheepshead Bay had both a dirt and a turf course. Principal backers were: The new Sheepshead Bay Race Track's premier event was the Suburban Handicap , first run on June 10, 1884 and conceived by James G. K. Lawrence, who became the track's president. Four years later Lawrence would also create

441-592: Was sold in 1923 for residential real estate development . No trace of the racetrack can be found today. Other defunct New York race tracks: 40°35′32″N 73°56′50″W  /  40.59222°N 73.94722°W  / 40.59222; -73.94722 Belmont Futurity Stakes The Futurity Stakes , commonly referred to as the Belmont Futurity , is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-September or October at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York , United States. Open to two-year-old horses, it

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