The Interborough Handicap is 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...

 held annually at the beginning of January at Aqueduct Racetrack

Aqueduct Racetrack

Aqueduct Racetrack is a thoroughbred horse-racing facility and racino in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Its racing meets usually are from late October/early November through April.-History:...

 in Ozone Park, Queens

Ozone Park, Queens

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, New York

New York

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. A non-graded stakes race

Graded stakes race

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 open to fillies

Filly

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 & mare

Mare

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s age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of six furlong

Furlong

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s.

Inaugurated in 1921 at the Jamaica Racetrack

Jamaica Racetrack

Jamaica Race Course was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility operated by the Metropolitan Jockey Club in Jamaica, New York. The track opened on April 27, 1903, a day which featured the inaugural running of the Excelsior Handicap. Eugene D. Wood, one of the founders and largest...

 in Jamaica, Queens

Jamaica, Queens

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, it was raced there through 1958 after which it was hosted by the Aqueduct track. From 1968 through 1971, Belmont Park

Belmont Park

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 was home to the race.

From 1921 through 1924, the Interborough Handicap was contested at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth.

Ta Wee

Ta Wee

Ta Wee was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame race horse bred at the Tartan Stable of William L. McKnight . Foaled on March 26, 1966, her sire was Intentionally, the American Champion Sprint Horse of 1959...

 won this race in 1969 and 1970. Affectionately

Affectionately

Affectionately was the daughter of 1956 American Horse of the Year Swaps, out of the exceptional racing mare Searching. Searching's dam was Big Hurry, by Black Toney out of the best "Blue Hen" mare of them all, La Troienne...

 won it in 1963 and 1964.

Past winners

• 2010 - Distorted Passion
• 2009 - Zada Belle
• 2008 - Oprah Winney
• 2007 - Comacina
• 2006 - Bank Audit
• 2005 - Fit Performer
• 2004 - Wilzada
• 2003 - Xtra Heat
  Xtra Heat
  Xtra Heat is a retired American Thoroughbred Champion filly racehorse. She was owned by Kenneth Taylor, Harry Deitchman, and her trainer, John Salzman, Sr....
  
  
• 2002 - Seeking the Sky
• 2001 - Bimini Blues
• 2000 - Evils Pic

• 1971 - Process Shot
  Process Shot
  Process Shot was a bay American Champion filly racehorse. Owned and bred by Elberon Farm, she descended from her sire Restless Wind out of a Determine mare named Possessed...
  
  
• 1950 - Sheilas Reward
  Sheilas Reward
  Sheilas Reward was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who was voted the American Champion Sprint Horse of 1950 and 1951. He was sired by multiple stakes winner Reaping Reward and out of the mare Smart Sheila, a daughter of the 1930 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Jamestown.-A...