The LONG ISLAND Handicap in named for the largest island in the continental United States. The LONG ISLAND Handicap was run at a mile and five-eighths from 1956 to 1958; at a mile and a sixteenth from 1973 to 1977; at a mile and three-sixteenths in 1959, 1961, from 1963 to 1967, and in 1970 and 1971; at one mile in 1972; at a mile and three-eighths in 1960, 1962, 1968, 1969, and 1989. Run on Belmont's main track from 1956 to 1959, 1972, 1975, and 1989. Run at Belmont Park in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993. Run in two divisions in 1958, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1985, 1990, and 1998. Run for both genders, ages three and up, prior to 1972. Run on the main track at the distance of a mile and three eighths in 1997 and 2000.