River City Handicap

River City Handicap
Grade III race
Location Churchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated 1978
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website Churchill Downs
Race information
Distance 1 18 miles (9 furlongs)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $100,000

The River City Handicap is a Grade IIIT race on the turf run at Churchill Downs for Thoroughbred horses aged three-years-old and up at a distance of one and one eighth miles (9 furlongs). The River City runs on the day after Thanksgiving on a card which includes the prestigious Clark Handicap, a race as old as the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks.

The River City currently offers a purse of $100,000.

Past winners

  • 2016 - Thatcher Street (5) (Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr.)
  • 2015 - Heart to Heart (4) (Julien R. Leparoux)
  • 2014 - Villandy (5) (Julien Leparoux)
  • 2013 - Potomac River (5) (Juan P. Vargas)
  • 2012 - Keep Up (5) (Jose Lezcano)
  • 2011 - Blues Street (7) (Robby Albarado)
  • 2010 - Battle of Hastings (4)
  • 2009 - Rahystrada (5) (Leandro Goncalves)
  • 2008 - Karelian/Demarcation (Karelian/6, Demarcation/4) (Bill Troilo on Karelian, Jesus Castanon Demarcation) dead heat
  • 2007 - Thorn Song (4) (Kent Desormeaux)
  • 2006 – Bayeux (GB) (5) (John Velazquez)
  • 2005 – America Alive (4) (Robby Albarado)
  • 2004 – G P Fleet (4) (Jose Martinez, Jr.)
  • 2003 – Hard Buck (4) (Brice Blanc)
  • 2002 - Dr. Kashnikow (5) (Robby Albarado)
  • 2001 - Dr. Kashnikow (4) (Robby Albarado)
  • 2000 – Brahms (3) (Pat Day)
  • 1999 - Comic Strip
  • 1998 - Wild Event
  • 1997 - Same Old Wish
  • 1996 - Same Old Wish
  • 1995 - Homing Pigeon
  • 1994 - Lindon Lime
  • 1993 - Secretos Hideaway
  • 1992 - Cozzene's Prince


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