 In 1942, Empire City Racetrack terminated flat racing and the facility reverted to hosting only harness racing events.After that, the Scarsdale Handicap was run at Jamaica Race Course in Jamaica, Queens, New York.The 1918 inaugural running was won by War Cloud, a three-year-old colt who had finished fourth in that year's Kentucky Derby, won the Preakness Stakes and ran second in the Belmont Stakes.