High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bowling Green Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annualkly at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Raced on turf, the Grade II event is open to three-year-olds and up who are willing to race the one and three-eighths miles distance. Previously run in June or July, the Bowling Green is to be run for the 51st time on September 11, 2009.