The Vineland Handicap was an American

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run at

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. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on

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over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth. Inaugurated in 1942, the Vineland Handicap was last run in 1999 when that year's

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, Soaring Softly won. On March 18, 2000, the ''

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'' reported that the Vineland Handicap had been cancelled due to financial restraints. The track closed in 2001.

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