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Seminole Handicap

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Hialeah Park closed at the end of 2001 meaning that year's April 15 running of the Seminole Handicap was its last.
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first run as the Inaugural Handicap on the January 14, 1932 opening day of the newly constructed
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A guest of Joseph Widener on that opening day in 1932 was the Irish trainer
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Originally named the Inaugural Handicap and run at a distance of six
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whose career would include at least one win in each of the five
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Among the most notable winners of the Seminole were
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Index

Hialeah Park Race Track
Hialeah, Florida
United States
Thoroughbred
Flat racing
Furlongs
Thoroughbred horse race
Hialeah Park Race Track
Hialeah, Florida
Great Miami Hurricane
Joseph E. Widener
furlongs
Flying Heels
1925 Kentucky Derby
Flying Ebony
Cecil Boyd-Rochfort
British Classic Races
British National training championships
Citation
Kelso
Forego
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame
"Flying Heels Wins As Hialeah Opens"
"Flying Heels Victor in Hialeah Inaugural: Vander Pool"
"Irish Trainers Visit Ends: Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Praises Widener and Hialeah Park"
"Citation unmatched for 25 years"
ESPN
"Kelso Romps To Easy Victory In Hialeah Seminole Handicap"
The Pittsburgh Press
"Pleasure Foolish and Forgone"

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