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Busher Stakes


Date: February 13, 10
Post:
Purse: $65,000
Grade:
Type:
Distance: 8.5 furlongs
Age: 3 years old
Sex: Fillies
Turf:


Aqueduct Racetrack
110-00 Rockaway Blvd
Jamaica, New York, 11417
USA

(718)-641-4700



Notes:
The Busher Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse racing event. This race is held each year in February at Aqueduct Race Track in Jamaica, New York and carries a purse value of 65,000. The Busher Handicap is named in honor of champion racing mare Busher, Champion Two Year Old Filly of 1944.The Three-year-old fillies can participate in the race that have to run at 1 mile (8 furlongs) in 1978 and 1979 and at 9 furlongs from 1985 to 1992. It was not run in 1986 and 1987.
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