The Honorable Miss Handicap is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are three years old or older over a distance of six furlongs on the dirt track scheduled annually in September at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.
The event is named after the winning mare Honorable Miss[1] who won the Fall Highweight Handicap twice at Belmont Park defeating male company.
The inaugural running of the event was on 3 November 1985 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York during the NYRA Big A Fall Meeting as the Honorable Miss Stakes and was won by the three-year-old filly Schematic, who was trained by the US Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito in a time of 1:101⁄5.
[4] The distance for the event was increased to six and a half furlongs only for the 1993 running.
† In 2015, La Verdad finished first but was later disqualified and unplaced for a drug violation.