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Risen Star winner Sierra Leone was named the 2-1 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $1 million, Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.. The Blue Grass (post time: 5:52 p.m.) will offer 200 ...
The 2024 Keeneland Spring Meet will be highlighted not only by record-setting purses but by the 100 th running of the Lexington racetrack’s major Kentucky Derby prep race.. In year 150 for the ...
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]
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 race was revived at Keeneland in the spring of 1937. In 1943–1944, the Blue Grass was renewed as a part of the Keeneland-at-Churchill Downs meeting. In 1945, the Blue Grass was run as part of the Churchill Downs meeting. Today it is part of the Keeneland program. From 2007 to 2014, the race was held on a synthetic "all-weather" surface ...
Keeneland takes pride in maintaining racing traditions; it was the last track in North America to broadcast race calls over its public-address system, not doing so until 1997. Most of the racing scenes of the 2003 movie Seabiscuit were shot at Keeneland, in part because of the track's "retro feel". [12]
This year’s Fall Meet at Keeneland Race Course will be a historic one.. It was announced Wednesday that the meet, which will feature 22 stakes races, will award a record total of $9.05 million.
The Breeders' Futurity Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early October at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. [2] Currently offering a purse of $600,000, the race is open to two-year-old horses and is run at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.