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The 2024 Keeneland Spring Meet begins Friday in Lexington. ... Ten Blue Grass Stakes winners — including Strike the Gold in 1991 and Spectacular Bid in 1979 — have gone on to win the Kentucky ...
All-sources wagering for the 2024 Keeneland Spring Meet exceeded $218 million and was the third-highest handle in track history. ... the winner of the Blue ... the All Stakes Pick 5 ending with ...
The 2023 Spring Meet at Keeneland began Friday with a day full of racing, including a big upset in the showcase race of the day.
The winner will automatically qualify for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. The race obtained Graded stakes race status in 1973 and was a Grade III race through 1975, a Grade II from 1976 through 2006 and elevated in 2007 to Grade I status with a current purse of $600,000
The race was inaugurated on October 11, 1984, in honour of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who attended the Keeneland races, during her private visit to Central Kentucky, and who presented a trophy on that date. [1] The event was held on the dirt track over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles with Sintra winning in a time of 1:43 2 ⁄ 5. [1]
In 1967, Pennsylvania enacted a law allowing thoroughbred horse racing with parimutuel wagering. [2] Two companies that later formed part of Penn National Gaming were founded in 1968 by groups seeking one of the four available racing licenses: Pitt Park Raceway, Inc., formed by several Erie area businessmen, [3] [4] and the Pennsylvania National Turf Club, established by a group of Central ...
An annual Central Kentucky tradition has arrived on the calendar once again. Friday is the opening day of the 2024 Fall Meet at Keeneland, which will feature 17 days of horse racing at the famed ...
The name of the event was named after the Green River a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south-central Kentucky. The event was created in parallel with the Hopemont Stakes which was run one day later for two-year-olds regardless of sex. The event was run in two divisions in 1994. [2]