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Winner: Second: Third: Starters: 2024 Sierra Leone: Just A Touch Epic Ride 10 2023 Tapit Trice: Verifying Blazing Sevens 11 2022 Zandon Smile Happy Emmanuel 11 2021
John Battaglia was the former general manager of the old Latonia Race Track (now Turfway). He also was the general manager of Miles Park (race track) in Louisville, Kentucky. His son, Mike Battaglia , served as the track announcer at Turfway until early 2016 and was also a racing analyst for NBC Sports.
The 1965 winner Swift Ruler won both races. In 1984, the conditions of the event were changed from handicap to stakes allowance and the event was renamed the Rebel Stakes. [2] That same year the distance was increased to one and one-sixteenth miles. [3] In 1990, the event was upgraded to Grade III.
2006 winner Lava Man - first horse ever to take the Grade I Santa Anita Handicap, the Grade I Hollywood Gold Cup, and the Grade I Pacific Classic Stakes in the same calendar year. Time record: 1:59.11 - Candy Ride (2003) Largest Margin. 19 + 1 ⁄ 4 lengths - Flightline (2022) Most wins: 2 - Tinners Way (1994, 1995) 2 - Skimming (2000, 2001)
Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Distance Time Purse Grade Ref At Fair Grounds – Fair Grounds Stakes: 2025 Taking Candy 5 Irad Ortiz Jr. Cherie DeVaux Lael Stables 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles 1:50.44 $175,000 III [9] 2024 Beatbox 6 Joel Rosario: Cherie DeVaux Rob Comestro & Jeff Ganje 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles 1:49.96 $175,000 III [10] 2023 Two Emmys 7 James Graham
The Franklin Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are three years old or older, over a distance of 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs on the turf held annually in October at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the autumn meeting. The event currently carries a purse of $350,000.
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 ]
The Gazelle Stakes (formerly Gazelle Handicap until 2004) is an American thoroughbred horse race held annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, New York.It is a Grade III event run over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles on dirt that is open to three-year-old fillies.