Next Move Handicap

The Next Move Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York.

A Grade III event open to fillies and Mares, age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of one mile and one furlong.

Inaugurated in 1975, the race was restricted to three-year-old fillies at one mile in 1975.

The race is named in honor of the filly Next Move who was the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1950 and the American Co-Champion Older Female Horse in 1952.

Since inception, the Next Move Handicap has been contested at various distances: On December 4, 2009, the New York Racing Association announced that the Next Move Handicap was being placed on hiatus.