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A detailed list of statistics about a race. The chart lists the position of each horse at various points of the race, the margin between horses, plus the odds for the race, and each horse's sex, age, weight carried, owner, and trainer. The chart also describes the purse, race conditions, payouts for various winning bets, times and other data ...
In 2007, the event was changed to the Humana Distaff Stakes, and is now run under allowance weight conditions. [4] Humana last year of sponsorship was 2019, with Churchill Downs finding new sponsorship in 2020 with Derby City Gaming. [5] The first five runnings of the event the winners were ridden by US Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day. Pat Day won ...
The 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby is a series of races through which horses qualified for the 2024 Kentucky Derby, which was held on May 4.The field for the Derby was limited to 20 horses, with up to four 'also eligibles' in case of a late withdrawal from the field.
The Alysheba became the most recent addition to the Derby Week stakes with the inaugural running on 30 April 2004 as the sixth race on the undercard of the Kentucky Oaks day meeting. It was the first stakes to join the Derby Week lineup since 1997.
The Jeff Ruby Steaks (a homophone of the word Stakes, for commercial reasons) [1] is a Grade III American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at a distance of a one and one-eighth miles on the synthetic track in late March at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky.
The Risen Star Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the dirt run annually in February, usually during the President's Day weekend at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event currently offers a purse of $400,000.
In 1938 the conditions of the event were changed to a handicap for horses three-years-old and older and the distance set at 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles. [3] In 1940 the distance was extended to 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles for two runnings in which Joe DeSoto's Steel Heels won both events including setting a new track record in 1941. [ 4 ]
In 2007 the event's conditions were changed to stakes allowance and the this reflected in the name. [6] During the summer of 2007, Golden Gate Fields installed a polymer synthetic type racing surface and since 2008 the event has been run on this surface. [6] In 2012 the event reverted back to handicap conditions. [6]