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The Metropolitan Handicap is an American Grade I stakes race for Thoroughbred Horses of either gender three-years-old and above. The race is run at Belmont Park for a $600,000 purse (with $450,000 given to the winner); its one-mile distance has earned it in the moniker the "Met Mile." Run at the end of May, the Met Mile is the first of three races in the New York Handicap Triple series, followed by the Suburban Handicap and Brooklyn Handicap . The Met Mile was first run in 1891 at Morris Park ; prior to 1897, it was run at 1-1/8 mile. In 1904, its location was moved to Belmont Park. There it remained but for nine years—1960 to 1967, 1969, and 1975—when Aqueduct Racetrack hosted the event. It was not run in 1895, 1911, and 1912. Four horses have won the Handicap Triple:
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