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The Mineshaft Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race for four-year-olds and up run at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans Louisiana early in the year. A Grade III stakes race it’s set at a distance of 1 and one-sixteenth mile on the dirt and offers a purse of $125000.It’s named for the fine competitor Mineshaft now a promising stallion standing at Lane’s End Farm.This race was originally called The Whirlaway Handicap to honor the great Whirlaway.

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