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.
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—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
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We cannot hear each other speak.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
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