The Vineland 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 at Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Cherry Hill is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a population of 71,045, representing an increase of 1,080 from the 69,965 residents enumerated during the 2000 Census...

. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on turf

Grass

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 over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth.

Inaugurated in 1942, the Vineland Handicvap was last run in 1999 when that year's American Champion Female Turf Horse, Soaring Softly

Soaring Softly

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 won. On March 18, 2000 the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Vineland Handicap had been cancelled due to financial restraints. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB73541F3986DA8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM The track closed in 2001.