Islip Handicap

Islip Handicap
Discontinued stakes race
LocationBrighton Beach Race Course, Brighton Beach, New York
(1899–1909)

Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York (1910)

Inaugurated1899
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Race information
Distance1+18 miles (9 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-years-old & up

The Islip Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually from 1899 through 1907 at New York's Brighton Beach Race Course and then for a final time in 1910 with a drastically reduced purse at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York. A race for horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt over a distance of one mile for the first two runnings then at a mile and one-eighth for the remainder.


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