Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Brookdale Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid summer from 1887 through 1910 at Gravesend Race Track in Brooklyn New York and from 1914 through 1933 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. Open to horses age three and older it was contested on dirt over a distance of one mile one furlong.Gravesend Race Track opened on August 26 1886 and the first Brookdale Handicap would be run during the following Spring/Summer racing season.