The Tidal 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...

 contested on turf

Grass

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 at Belmont Park

Belmont Park

Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, on Long Island adjoining New York City. It first opened on May 4, 1905...

 in Elmont, New York

Elmont, New York

Elmont is an unincorporated census-designated place located in the northwest corner of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, along its border with the borough of Queens in New York City...

. Run in early July, the Grade II

Graded stakes race

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 event was open to horse

Horse

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s aged three and older.

The third of Belmont Park's four major summer grass races for older horses, the unofficial series began with the Red Smith Handicap

Red Smith Handicap

The Red Smith Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. A race on turf open to horses age three and older, it is run in the first week of November over a distance of 1⅜ miles ....

 (G-2) in early June, followed by the Bowling Green Handicap

Bowling Green Handicap

The Bowling Green Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annualkly at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Raced on turf, the Grade II event is open to three-year-olds and up who are willing to race the one and three-eighths miles distance...

 (G-1) in mid June, and finished with the Sword Dancer Handicap (G-1) at the end of July. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2DE133AF93AA35754C0A96F948260

Previously, the Tidal Handicap had been run 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:...

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The Tidal Stakes for three-year-olds was run at the old 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...

 for almost thirty years from the 1880s through until the track closed in 1910. According to a 1901 report on the race by the New York Times, the Tidal Stakes was one of the famous fixtures of the Sheepshead Bay Spring meeting. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9506E4D81030E132A25755C2A9609C946097D6CF

Selected winners of the Tidal Handicap

• 1993 - Mio Robertino
• 1992 - Revasser
• 1991 - Passagere du Soir
• 1990 - With Approval
  With Approval
  With Approval was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Canadian Triple Crown in 1989 under jockey Don Seymour. He finished second in the 1990 Breeders' Cup Turf and the Arlington Million....
  
  
• 1989 - Three Engines
• 1988 - Glaros
• 1987 - Dance of Life
• 1986 - Proud Truth
  Proud Truth
  Proud Truth was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by Dorothy Galbreath, wife of prominent horseman John W. Galbreath, at their Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Kentucky....
  
  
• 1985 - Who's For Dinner
• 1984 - Win
• 1983 - Hush Dear
• 1982 - Nijinsky's Secret
  Nijinsky's Secret
  Nijinsky's Secret is a Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in France, Canada, and the United States. Bred by Oxford Stable, he was a son of the great 1970 English Triple Crown champion, Nijinsky.Purchased by Ralph C...
  
  
• 1981 - Masked Marvel
• 1980 - Tiller
• 1979 - Golden Reserve
• 1978 - Tiller
• 1977 - Noble Dancer
• 1976 - Erwin Boy
• 1975 - Brigand
• 1974 - Halo
  Halo (horse)
  Halo was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and an important Champion sire. Bred in Kentucky by John R. Gaines, founder of the Breeders Cup, Halo was out of the mare Cosmah , which made him a half-brother to the Hall of Fame filly Tosmah. His sire was Hail To Reason, the U.S...
  
  
• 1973 - Jogging
• 1972 - Droll Role
  Droll Role
  Droll Role was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by John M. Schiff, his sire was the great runner and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Tom Rolfe, a son of the undefeated European superstar, Ribot...
  
  
• 1971 - Run the Gantlet
  Run the Gantlet
  Run the Gantlet was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse and noted sire. He was out of the mare First Feather, whom owner Paul Mellon had purchased as a yearling at a then record price of $90,000 for a filly. He was sired by the 1965 Preakness Stakes winner, Tom Rolfe, a son of the...
  
  
• 1970 - Mr. Leader
• 1969 - Fort Marcy
  Fort Marcy (horse)
  Fort Marcy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. His grandsire was the important Italian horse, Nearco. In 1970 he earned three Champion titles including Co-Horse of the Year honors. He competed for six years until his retirement at the end of the 1971 racing season.Fort Marcy died in 1991 at...
  
  
• 1968 - More Scents
• 1967 - Fort Marcy
  Fort Marcy (horse)
  Fort Marcy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. His grandsire was the important Italian horse, Nearco. In 1970 he earned three Champion titles including Co-Horse of the Year honors. He competed for six years until his retirement at the end of the 1971 racing season.Fort Marcy died in 1991 at...
  
  
• 1966 - Assagai
  Assagai (horse)
  Assagai was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Kentucky, he was sired by Warfare and out of the mare, Primary. Purchased by the international business tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., he was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, MacKenzie Miller. At age three, Assagai was...
  
  
• 1965 - Or et Argent
• 1964 - Master Dennis

Selected winners of the Tidal Stakes

• 1910 - The Turk
• 1909 - Hilarious
• 1908 - Colin
  Colin (horse)
  Colin was one of America's greatest Thoroughbred racehorses. He retired undefeated after 15 starts and as a sire appears in the pedigree of the champion racehorse, Alsab.-Pedigree:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 1906 - Accountant
• 1905 - Sysonby
  Sysonby
  Sysonby was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He won every start easily, except one, at distances from one mile to two and a quarter miles...
  
  
• 1904 - Ort Wells
  Ort Wells
  Ort Wells was an American Thoroughbred two-time Champion racehorse. Sired by Withers Stakes winner, King Eric, he was out of the mare Tea's Over, a daughter of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Hanover...
  
  
• 1903 - Shorthose
• 1902 - Major Daingerfield
• 1901 - Watercolor
• 1900 - McMeekin
• 1899 - Filon d'Or
• 1898 - Handball
• 1897 - Budha
• 1896 - Margrave
• 1895 - Keenan
• 1894 - Dobbins
• 1893 - Sir Walter
  Sir Walter
  Sir Walter was an outstanding American Thoroughbred racehorse known for his gritty determination which saw him win a number of races by a matter of inches. He was bred by James Ben Ali Haggin at his Rancho Del Paso near Sacramento, California who had imported his sire, Midlothian, from Great Britain...
  
  
• 1892 - Charade
• 1891 - Portchester
• 1890 - Burlington
• 1887 - Hanover
  Hanover (thoroughbred horse)
  Hanover was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse that won his first 17 race starts. He was the only American stallion to head the Leading sire in North America list for four consecutive years until Bold Ruler did so in 1965.-Background:...
  
  
• 1886 - Inspector B.
• 1885 - Joe Cotton
  Joe Cotton (horse)
  Joe Cotton was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known as the winner of the 1885 Kentucky Derby. He was by King Alfonso who was the sire of the 1880 winner Fonso...
  
  
• 1883 - Barnes
• 1882 - Runnymede
• 1881 - Hindoo
  Hindoo (horse)
  Hindoo was an outstanding American Thoroughbred race horse who won 30 of his 35 starts, including the Kentucky Derby, the Travers Stakes and the Clark Handicap. He later sired the Preakness Stakes winner Buddhist and the Belmont Stakes winner and Leading sire in North America, Hanover.He was a bay...
  
  
• 1880 - Luke Blackburn
  Luke Blackburn (horse)
  Luke Blackburn was a Thoroughbred race horse born and bred in Tennessee by Capt. James Franklin.-Background:Sired by Bonnie Scotland, his dam was Nevada out of perhaps the most influential stallion America ever produced, the great Lexington. A bay foal, he was sold at two to Capt. Jim Williams...