197:. Following a Court ruling, racing resumed in New York State but by then the financial problems arising from the law's effects resulted in the Gravsend track having gone out of business. The Brookdale Handicap was revived in 1914 by the Queens County Jockey Club at its Aqueduct Racetrack.
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Brookdale Handicap would be run during the following Spring/Summer racing season. On May 26, 1887, the inaugural running of the Brookdale Handicap was won by future Hall of Fame inductee,
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486:Gravesend Race Track
188:New York Legislature
145:Gravesend Race Track
37:Gravesend Race Track
378:1903 – Hunter Raine
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381:1902 – Morningside
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113:left-handed
79:Flat racing
63:Inaugurated
58:(1914–1933)
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470:Categories
441:References
417:1891 – Eon
368:Go Between
362:Go Between
350:Joe Madden
230:Go Between
223:Most wins:
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19:Horse race
263:Victorian
71:Race type
281:Mad Play
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149:Brooklyn
129:Assigned
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90:Distance
46:New York
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33:Location
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269:Peanuts
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255:1929 –
216:Peanuts
204:Records
190:of the
173:Hanover
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317:Roamer
218:(1927)
161:Queens
126:Weight
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135:The
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