Lincoln Heritage Handicap
The Lincoln Heritage Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois. An ungraded stakes raced on turf open to fillies and Mares, age three and older, it is contested over a distance of miles.
The 2009 edition had to be moved to the main track's Polytrack synthetic dirt.
Inaugurated in 1976 as the Anita Peabody Handicap, in 1998 it was renamed the Lincoln Heritage Handicap.
In 1980, 1981, 1984, and in 1988, the race was run in two divisions.
Since inception, the race has been contested at various distances on both dirt and turf:
- 1 mile : 1976, 1987, on turf
- 1 mile : 1985, 1988, on dirt at Hawthorne Race Course
- mile : 1977-1978 on dirt
- miles : 1980, on dirt
- miles : 1979-1984, 1986, 1989–2008, on turf
- miles : 2009, on Polytrack synthetic dirt
Records
Speed record:
Most wins:
Most wins by a jockey:
Most wins by a trainer:
Most wins by an owner:
† In 1994 and 1997 there was a Dead Heat for first.
