Cigar Mile Handicap

  • Location: Aqueduct Racetrack, Queens, New York
  • Inaugural Race: 1988
  • Distance: 1 mile (8 furlongs)
  • Track Type: Left-handed, Dirt
  • Age Qualifications: Three Year Olds and up
  • 2020 Purse: $250,000
  • 2020 Race Date: Saturday, December 5th

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2020 Cigar Mile Handicap Entries and Results

POSTHORSEJOCKEYTRAINERWINPLACESHOW
8
True Timber
Kendrick Carmouche
Jack Sisterson
$16.60
$6.80
$3.20
3
Snapper Sinclair
Manuel Franco
Steven M. Asmussen
$9.30
$4.00
1
Performer
Joel Rosario
Claude R. McGaughey III
$2.20
6
King Guillermo
Jose L. Ortiz
Juan Carlos Avila
5
Mr. Buff
Junior Alvarado
John C. Kimmel
9
Bon Raison
Jorge A. Vargas, Jr.
Jack Sisterson

Exotic Payouts:

  • $2 Exacta (8-3) Paid $133.50
  • $2 Trifecta (8-3-1) Paid $371.00
  • $2 Superfecta (8-3-1-6) Paid $1,134.00


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The History of the Cigar Mile Handicap

Run each year at Aqueduct Racetrack, the Cigar Mile Handicap is named in honor of the legaendary Hall of Famer Cigar. Then called the NYRA Mile, Cigar began his record setting 16 race win streak in 1994 with a win at the race. Following his retirement, the race was renamed in his honor in 1997.