Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Handicap is an American

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 Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse race held annually since 1934 at Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo, California

San Mateo, California

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. Held in late September, the Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Handicap is currently an ungraded stakes

Graded stakes race

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 event for 3-year-olds and up, raced on turf

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 at a distance of 1 1/8-miles with a purse of $150,000.

Inaugurated in 1934 as the Bay Meadows Handicap, on November 28, 2007 this Grade III stakes race was downgraded to an ungraded stakes by the American Graded Stakes Committee

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Partial list of past winners

• 2008 : Bold Chieftain
• 2007 : Now Victory
• 2006 : Flamethrowintexan
• 2005 : Adreamisborn
• 2004 : Needwood Blade
• 2003 : Mister Acpen
• 2002 : David Copperfield
• 2001 : Super Quercus
• 2000 : Devine Wind
• 1999 : Kirkwall
• 1998 : Hawksley Hill
• 1997 : El Angelo
• 1996 : Gentlemen
  Gentlemen (horse)
  Gentlemen is a Thoroughbred racehorse who was the Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in Argentina and then raced successfully in the United States....
  
  
• 1995 : Caesour
• 1994 : Blues Traveller
• 1993 : Slew of Damascus
• 1992 : Forty Niner Days
• 1991 : French Seventyfive
• 1990 : Robinski
• 1989 : Ten Keys
• 1988 : Wait Till Monday
• 1987 : Show Dancer
• 1986 : Palace Music
  Palace Music (horse)
  Palace Music was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and a Champion sire who won Group/Grade 1 stakes in both Europe and the United States. Bred by Walter J. Salmon, Jr. at his Mereworth Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, he was sired by the great Northern Dancer's son, The Minstrel...
  
  

• 1985 : Drumalis
• 1984 : Scruples
• 1983 : Interco
• 1982 : Super Moment
  Super Moment
  Super Moment was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by Maxwell H. Gluck's Elmendorf Farm. Racing in California for future Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally, Super Moment won the 1981 Strub Stakes and the 1982 San Bernardino and San Marcos Handicaps but is best known for winning...
  
  
• 1981 : Super Moment
  Super Moment
  Super Moment was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by Maxwell H. Gluck's Elmendorf Farm. Racing in California for future Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally, Super Moment won the 1981 Strub Stakes and the 1982 San Bernardino and San Marcos Handicaps but is best known for winning...
  
  
• 1980 : Super Moment
  Super Moment
  Super Moment was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by Maxwell H. Gluck's Elmendorf Farm. Racing in California for future Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally, Super Moment won the 1981 Strub Stakes and the 1982 San Bernardino and San Marcos Handicaps but is best known for winning...
  
  
• 1979 : Leonotis
• 1978 : Bywayofchicago
• 1977 : Painted wagon
• 1976 : Lifes Hope
• 1975 : Bahia Key
• 1974 : Indefatigable
• 1973 : Partners Hope
• 1962 : Sea Orbit
• 1960 : Prize Host
• 1959 : Promised Land
• 1952 : Moonrush
• 1947 : Artillery
• 1938 : Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression...
  
  
• 1937 : Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression...
  
  
• 1936 : Special Agent
• 1935 : Head Play
  Head Play
  Head Play was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1933 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series of races and as the horse on the losing end of the "Fighting Finish" of the 1933 Kentucky Derby.- Early racing career :At age two Head Play broke his...
  
  
• 1934 : Time Supply