High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bed O` Roses Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run at Aqueduct Racetrack on Long Island in New York in the spring of the year. The Grade II event is for fillies and Mares three-year-olds and older, and is set at a distance of seven furlongs. In its 53rd running in 2009, the Bed O` Roses offers a purse of $150,000 added.