The Brighton Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 run annually from 1895 through 1907 at the Brighton Beach Race Course

Brighton Beach Race Course

The Brighton Beach Race Course was an American Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened at Brighton Beach, Coney Island, New York on June 28, 1879 by the Brighton Beach Racing Association. Headed by real estate developer William A. Engeman, who owned the Brighton Beach Hotel, the one-mile race...

 in Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach is an oceanside neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. As of 2000, it has a population of 75,692 with a total of 31,228 households.-Location:...

, Coney Island

Coney Island

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, New York

New York

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 and in 1910 at Empire City Race Track

Yonkers Raceway

Yonkers Raceway, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and New York state-approved slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, New York near the New York City border...

. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt over a distance of a mile and a quarter (ten furlong

Furlong

A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to 220 yards, 660 feet, 40 rods, or 10 chains. The exact value of the furlong varies slightly among English-speaking countries....

s).

In the late 19th and early part of the 20th century, the Brighton Handicap, along with the Suburban Handicap

Suburban Handicap

The Suburban Handicap is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to horses age three and older, it is run at the classic one-and-one-quarter mile distance on dirt for a $400,000 purse....

 at Sheepshead Bay Race Track

Sheepshead Bay Race Track

Sheepshead Bay Race Track was an American Thoroughbred horse racing facility built on the site of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay, New York...

 and the Metropolitan Handicap

Metropolitan Handicap

The Metropolitan Handicap, frequently called the "Met Mile," is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the last week of May at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of one mile .The Met Mile was first...

 at Morris Park Racecourse

Morris Park Racecourse

Morris Park Racecourse was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility from 1889 until 1904. It was located in a part of Westchester County, New York that was annexed into the Bronx in 1895 and later became known as Morris Park...

, were the big three events of the Northeastern United States

Northeastern United States

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 racing season.

Race notes

On three occasions, 1902, 1903 and 1904, a new world record

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 was set by the race winner. In a review of Peter Pan's

Peter Pan I

Peter Pan was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, bred and raced by prominent horseman, James R. Keene. As winner of the Belmont Stakes, the Brooklyn Derby and the Brighton Handicap, he was later inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame...

 win in the 1907 race in front of 40,000 fans, the New York Morning Telegraph was quoted as saying the horse "accomplished a task that completely overshadowed any previous 3-year-old performance in turf history."
Following passage of the Hart-Agnew anti-betting law by the Legislature of New York, Brighton Beach Race Course closed is doors permanently in 1908. The race was revived at Empire City Race Track

Yonkers Raceway

Yonkers Raceway, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and New York state-approved slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, New York near the New York City border...

 in 1910 but even more restrictive state State legislation resulted in that racetrack also being forced to close. When a court ruling finally allowed racing to return in 1913 the Brighton Handicap was a thing of the past.

Records

Speed record:

• 2:02.80 - Broomstick
  Broomstick (horse)
  Broomstick was a Thoroughbred race horse born and bred at the famous McGrathiana Stud in Kentucky, but more importantly, he was one of the great sires of American racing. Out of another great sire, the Hall of Famer Ben Brush, Broomstick went on after his racing career to produce champion after...
  
   (1904)

Most wins:

• No horse won this race more than once.

Most wins by a jockey

Jockey

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:

• 2 - Willie Simms
  Willie Simms
  Willie Simms was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse racing jockey....
  
   (1897, 1898)
• 2 - George Odom
  George M. Odom
  George Martin Odom was an American National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. He is only one of two people to ever have won the Belmont Stakes as both a jockey and a trainer....
  
   (1902, 1903)

Most wins by a trainer

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:

• 2 - James G. Rowe, Sr. (1901, 1907)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - James R. Keene
  James R. Keene
  James Robert Keene was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.-Biography:He was born in London, England in 1838. He was fourteen years of age when his family emigrated to the United States in 1852...
  
   (1901, 1907)

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1910	Olambala Olambala Olambala was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Tennessee by John G. Greener, his British-born sire Ornus, a son of Bend Or, a two-time leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland, was imported to stand at stud in the United States...	4	Archibald	Thomas J. Healey T. J. Healey Thomas J. Healey was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer.Regularly referred to as "T. J." by both his associates and the media, Healey was born near the site of Fordham University in Fordham, New York. Growing up he worked on his father's dairy farm but rather than cows, his...	Richard T. Wilson, Jr. Richard Thornton Wilson, Jr. Richard Thornton Wilson, Jr. was an American banker and businessman who was a prominent figure in Thoroughbred horse racing in the early decades of the 20th Century....	2:06.60
1909	no race
1908	no race
1907	Peter Pan Peter Pan I Peter Pan was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, bred and raced by prominent horseman, James R. Keene. As winner of the Belmont Stakes, the Brooklyn Derby and the Brighton Handicap, he was later inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame...	3	Joe Notter Joe Notter Joseph A. Notter was an American Hall of Fame jockey and winner of two of the American Classic Races.A native of Brooklyn, New York, Joe Notter rode prominently in the first decades of the 20th century...	James G. Rowe, Sr.	James R. Keene James R. Keene James Robert Keene was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.-Biography:He was born in London, England in 1838. He was fourteen years of age when his family emigrated to the United States in 1852...	2:03.40
1906	Ram's Horn	4	LaVerne Sewell	Wink S. Williams	Wink S. Williams	2:03.60
1905	Artful Artful (horse) Artful was born at the Westbury Stable at Old Westbury on Long Island into a prominent racing family begun in 1898 by William Collins Whitney. The Whitney family remain to this day a leading name in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing....	3	Gene Hildebrand	John W. Rogers	Harry Payne Whitney Harry Payne Whitney Harry Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred horsebreeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.- Early years :...	2:04.80
1904	Broomstick Broomstick (horse) Broomstick was a Thoroughbred race horse born and bred at the famous McGrathiana Stud in Kentucky, but more importantly, he was one of the great sires of American racing. Out of another great sire, the Hall of Famer Ben Brush, Broomstick went on after his racing career to produce champion after...	3	Tommy Burns	Robert Tucker	Samuel S. Brown Samuel S. Brown Captain Samuel Smith Brown was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and racetrack owner....	2:02.80
1903	Waterboy	4	George Odom George M. Odom George Martin Odom was an American National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. He is only one of two people to ever have won the Belmont Stakes as both a jockey and a trainer....	A. Jack Joyner A. Jack Joyner Andrew Jackson "Jack" Joyner was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer and owner.Known as "Jack" and reported as "A.J." and "A. Jack," Joyner was born in Enfield, North Carolina, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Joyner...	James B. A. Haggin	2:03.20
1902	Gold Heels Gold Heels Gold Heels was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who, in a two-year period, set one new stakers record and four track records, including a world record.-Background:...	4	George Odom George M. Odom George Martin Odom was an American National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. He is only one of two people to ever have won the Belmont Stakes as both a jockey and a trainer....	Matthew M. Allen	Fred C. McLewee & Jim Brady	2:03.80
1901	Toddy	4	Lewis Smith	James G. Rowe, Sr.	James R. Keene James R. Keene James Robert Keene was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.-Biography:He was born in London, England in 1838. He was fourteen years of age when his family emigrated to the United States in 1852...	2:07.20
1900	Jack Point	4	Milton Henry	Jim McLaughlin Jim McLaughlin James "Jim" McLaughlin was an American thoroughbred race horse jockey.Orphaned and homeless in his early teens, McLaughlin was taken in by horse trainer William Daly who taught him how to ride. While individual statistics from all of McLaughlin's career races aren't documented, McLaughlin began...	Anthony L. Aste	2:04.60
1899	Imp Imp (horse) Imp was a pure black Thoroughbred racing filly with a white diamond shaped star between her eyes. She was sired by Wagner out of Foundling and was foaled on March 5, 1894. Owned and bred by Daniel R. Harness of Chillicothe, Ohio, and trained by both Charles E. Brossman and Peter Wimmer , Imp's...	5	Frank O'Leary	Charles E. Brossman	Daniel R. Harness	2:05.40
1898	Ornament	4	Willie Simms Willie Simms Willie Simms was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse racing jockey....	Charles E. Patterson	Charles E. Patterson	2:07.75
1897	Ben Brush	4	Willie Simms Willie Simms Willie Simms was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse racing jockey....	Hardy Campbell, Jr. Hardy Campbell, Jr. Hardy Campbell, Jr. was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer and Standardbred horse owner. Hardy Campbell, Sr. was involved in horse racing, and Hardy Jr. spent his life around and in the business. He became head stable lad for Dwyer Brothers Stable in Brooklyn, New York, one of the top...	Michael F. Dwyer Michael F. Dwyer Michael F. Dwyer was an American businessman from Brooklyn, New York and prominent owner of Thoroughbred racehorses and racetracks...	2:09.00
1896	Nanki Pooh	4	Samuel Doggett	William Donohue	Erie Stable	2:12.75