1. Records

2. Winners

3. References

The Gallant Bloom Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late September at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. A Grade II event open to fillies and mares age three and up, it is contested at a distance of six and a half furlongs on the dirt.

Gallant Bloom won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Filly champion of 1968, the 1969 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and the 1969 American Champion Older Female Horse. In The Blood-Horse ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Gallant Bloon is ranked #79.

The inaugural race was run at six furlongs in 1994.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 6.5 furlongs)

• 1:14.71 - Dust and Diamonds (2012)

• 2 - Indian Blessing (2008, 2009)

• 5 - John Velazquez (1997, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2016)

• 2 - John C. Kimmel (1996, 1998)
• 2 - Bob Baffert (2008, 2009)
• 3 - Steven Asmussen (2004, 2012, 2013)

• 2 - Patti & Hal Earnhardt III (2008, 2009)

Winners

References

• [https://archive.is/20130130081438/http://www.ntra.com/races.aspx?section=races&id=37229 The 2009 Gallant Bloom Handicap at the NTRA]

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