• The Great Metropolitan Handicap is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1...
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    the Wokingham and Norfolk Stakes, the Cesarewitch Handicap in 1913 and the Great Metropolitan Handicap in 1915. Fred Herbert was living in Maidenhead, Berkshire...
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    won the Goodwood Cup with King's Messenger, which also won the Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom in 1899 and 1900. In 1894 his horse Quaesitum won both...
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    Wednesday City and Suburban Handicap Flat Handicap 1m 2f 17y 4yo+ April April Meeting Wednesday Great Metropolitan Handicap Flat Handicap 1m 4f 6y 4yo+ April...
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  • List of British flat horse races (category Horse racing in Great Britain)
    other handicaps. Races worth £50,000 or more which are a course's most important race of the season or which have historical importance. Other handicap races...
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    more valuable purses. The City and Suburban Handicap and its companion race, the Great Metropolitan Handicap, were devised by London hosteler Samuel Powell...
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    the 1942 Metropolitan Handicap Back page showing charges at the entrance gates 1863–1888 - Great Metropolitan Stakes 1889–1897 - Metropolitan Stakes 1898–1978...
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    [and] undeniable talent" meant he was soon in demand. He won the Great Metropolitan Handicap on Telegram at the start of 1858, and, building an association...
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  • in 1927. In 1929 he won his first major race when he won the Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom with Jugo, a horse he had bought from a selling race...
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  • Excess swept the Metropolitan Handicap in May, the Suburban Handicap in July in a track-record time of 1:58 1/5, the Whitney Handicap in August, and the...
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    including Fernhill, which under Alec's training won the 1849 Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom, having been backed by Hawley to win £20,000, which...
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    races including the Correction Handicap and the Long Island Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack, and the Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga Race Course. For...
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    the meeting were two valuable all-aged handicap races run on the same afternoon: the Great Metropolitan Handicap over two and a quarter miles, and the...
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  • Epsom Gold Cup (category Flat races in Great Britain)
    Ronald 1899 - Newhaven II a Race known as Epsom Cup. b Run over Great Metropolitan Handicap course - 2 miles 2 furlongs (3,621 metres). May 26, 1883 New...
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    in Great Britain and Ireland for two years. Bona Vista's dam was Vista, a daughter Macaroni. She won several races, including the Great Metropolitan Handicap...
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  • July Handicap J&B Metropolitan Stakes S A Classic S A Derby (South African Derby) South African Champion Stakes The Annual Simonsberg Metropolitan Korean...
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    November Handicap to be run at the New Barns course in Manchester before it was relocated. In 1902, he won the valuable Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom...
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  • Equipoise won ten of his fourteen starts. On May 21, he won the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park from Sun Meadow, with Mate third. Equipoise, who...
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    in handicap races, and then landed a huge betting coup when the filly captured the Great Metropolitan Handicap and the City and Suburban Handicap on the...
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    Partner. Caractacus' first start as a three-year-old was in the Great Metropolitan Handicap at the Epsom spring meeting. He was ridden by J. Grimshaw and carried...
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    Dutch Skater: 1866 colt, a stayer, won the Warwick Cup, the Great Metropolitan Handicap, the Doncaster Cup, and the 6,200-metre Prix Gladiateur all at...
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    at least seven other winners including the Great Metropolitan Handicap winner Congratulation. She was a great-granddaughter of the influential British broodmare...
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  • 1932 Country Great Britain Colour Bay Earnings £19,096 Major wins Epsom Oaks (1935) Jockey Club Cup (1935, 1936) Great Metropolitan Handicap (1936) Ormonde...
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    He claimed the New York Handicap Triple by winning the Metropolitan Handicap, the Brooklyn Handicap, and the Suburban Handicap, a feat unmatched until...
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    in the Goodwood Cup, Doncaster Cup, City and Suburban Handicap and Great Metropolitan Handicap. Pyrrhus The First was later sold and exported to stand...
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    seven of his 14 starts, including the Gravesend Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack and the Whirlaway Handicap at Garden State Park. Mr. Prospector began his...
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  • series of races as it follows the Metropolitan Handicap and the Brooklyn Handicap. Four horses have won the Handicap Triple: Whisk Broom II (1913) Tom...
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  • seven races including the Epsom Stakes, Rous Memorial Stakes, Great Yorkshire Handicap and Doncaster Cup as well as Queen's Plates at Stockbridge, Newmarket...
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  • horses: Count Cyrano (AJC Metropolitan Handicap) Bobalong, dam of Monte Carlo (Australian Derby, AJC Metropolitan Handicap, LKS Mackinnon Stakes, Victoria...
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  • American Thoroughbred racehorse whose most important win was the 1981 Metropolitan Handicap. When retired to stud, he became a major sire whose offspring included...
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