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The '''Iroquois Handicap''' run at [[Belmont Park]] in the fall of the year, is a 7 [[furlong]] race for [[Thoroughbred]] [[filly|fillies]] and [[mare]]s, aged 3 and up, that are [[New York]]-bred. It offers a purse of $125,000.▼
▲The '''Iroquois Handicap''' run at [[Belmont Park]] on [[Long Island, New York]] in the fall of the year, is a 7 [[furlong]] race for [[Thoroughbred]] [[filly|fillies]] and [[mare]]s, aged 3 and up, that are [[New York]]-bred. It offers a purse of $125,000.
Set at a mile and an eighth before 1981, at a mile from 1981 to 1984, a mile and 70 yards from 1985 to 1987, at six furlongs from 1989 to 1993, it is now at six furlongs. In 1996, it ran at [[Aqueduct Racetrack]].▼
▲Set at a [[mile]] and an eighth before 1981, at a mile from 1981 to 1984, a mile and 70 yards from 1985 to 1987, at six furlongs from 1989 to 1993, it is now at six furlongs. In 1996, it ran at [[Aqueduct Racetrack]].
The Iroquois is named for the [[Iroquois]] Nation who lived in the region that now includes central [[New York State]]. It might well also be named for the first [[United States|American]] horse to win the [[England|English]] [[Epsom Derby]], Iroquois, son of [[Leamington (horse)|Leamington]] who also fathered [[Longfellow (horse)|Longfellow]].▼
▲The Iroquois Handicap is named for the [[Iroquois]] [[Nation]] who lived in the region that now includes central [[New York State]]. It might well also be named for the first [[United States|American]] horse to win the [[England|English]] [[Epsom Derby]], Iroquois, son of [[Leamington (horse)|Leamington]] who also fathered [[Longfellow (horse)|Longfellow]].
==Winners==
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