Next_Move_Handicap
Next Move Handicap
Horse race
The Next Move Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. A Grade III event open to fillies and Mares, age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of one mile and one furlong. It offers a purse of $100,000.
Inaugurated in 1975, the race was restricted to three-year-old fillies at one mile in 1975. It was contested at a mile and three sixteenths from 1984 through 1994.
The race is named in honor of the filly Next Move who was the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1950 and the American Co-Champion Older Female Horse in 1952.
Since inception, the Next Move Handicap has been contested at various distances:
- 1 mile : 1975
- 1+1⁄8 miles : 1976–1983, 1995–present
- 1+3⁄16 miles : 1984–1994
On December 4, 2009, the New York Racing Association announced that the Next Move Handicap was being placed on hiatus.[1]