The Queens County Handicap is an American Ungraded Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of December at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York.
Open to horses age three years and older, it is contested on dirt at a distance of one and three-sixteenths miles (9.5 furlongs).
Inaugurated in 1902, the Queens County Handicap is one of America's oldest races still running.
Since inception it has been contested at various distances: The Queens County is, like many races at Aqueduct, named for a New York City borough.
In winning the 1916 Queens County Handicap, Short Grass set a new United States record of 1:36 2/5 for one mile over a dirt course with a turn.