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This Grade I was called the John A. Morris Handicap until 1997. Before that, and until 1985, it was run as the Firenze Handicap. Firenze , born in 1884, was one of the greatest fillies of her day. Racing until she was seven years old, she beat males as well as females carrying the same weights. In 82 starts she won 47 races and was unplaced only five times. Now it is named for the undefeated Personal Ensign , both a great race horse and a great broodmare. The race was run at Jamaica racetrack before l958, then at Belmont Park in l975, and then Aqueduct Race Track from 1960 to 1974 and again from 1976 to 1985. It began at a mile and a sixteenth (l948 to l950, and again in l958), then at a mile in l960 and l96l; at one mile and three-eighths in l975; at one mile and an eighth from 1976 through 1994; and at one mile and a quarter from 1995 to the present. It was run on the turf course from l972 to l975 and run in two divisions in l972 and l974. In 1988 it was run a day late due to severe thunderstorms. PAST WINNERS
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