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Hollie Hughes Handicap

Hollie Hughes Handicap
Restricted race
Location Aqueduct Racetrack
Queens, New York, United States
Inaugurated 1979
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html
Race information
Distance 6 furlongs
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification New York State bred, age four & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $100,000

The Hollie Hughes Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 1979 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. A six furlong sprint raced on dirt, it is open to horses bred in the State of New York age four and older. Run in mid February, then in mid January, now returned to the month of February, the race currently offers a purse of $100,000.

The race is named in honor of New York native Hollie Hughes, a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who trained horses from a New York base for 70 years.

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