About: Hialeah Turf Cup Handicap

The Hialeah Turf Cup Handicap is a discontinued American Thoroughbred horse race open to horses aged three and older that was run each year at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida until the track closed at the end of the 2001 racing season. At the time, it was the oldest grass race in America. Run in two divisions in 1944, the race was contested at different distances: * 1 mile – 1932–1938 * 1 mile, 70 yards – 1929–1931 * 1+1⁄16 miles – 1926, 1939–1944 * 1+1⁄8 miles – 1927 * 1+3⁄16 miles – 1995–1999, 2001 * 1+1⁄4 miles – 1946 * 1+3⁄8 miles – 2000 * 1+1⁄2 miles – 1947–1994