For easier identification purposes, the race is sometimes referred to as the Coney Island Fall Handicap.
The great gelding Roseben won the 1906 running in a year he would dominate American sprint racing.
In 1895, the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 1894 named The Butterflies defeated future Hall of Fame inductee Domino.
These small purses made racing horses highly unprofitable and impossible for even the most successful owners to continue in business.
Thoroughbred Times reported that more than 1,500 American horses were sent overseas between 1908 and 1913 and of them at least 24 were either past, present, or future Champions.