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In 2000 the event was run over the Downhill turf course over the shorter distance of about 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs and with conditions for Californian bred entries. [4] After an absence of two years the event was resumed earlier in the racing year on the dirt track over a distance of six furlongs as the Pine Tree Lane Stakes . [ 4 ]
A "deluge" started about two hours before the race, turning a fast track sloppy. [10] Lion Heart, breaking near the rail, ran a quick opening quarter mile of 22.99 seconds to get good position going into the first turn. His jockey Mike Smith then started to slow down the pace, completing the half mile in 46.73 and three-quarters in 1:11.80.
The Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged three-years-old and older over a distance of six furlongs on the dirt held annually in early October at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the fall meeting.
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 race was run at 6:44 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on May 2, 2015, at Churchill Downs. [2] It was broadcast in the United States on the NBC television network. [3] Kentucky native Ashley Judd voiced the opening for the telecast of the race, and was the first woman to do so. [4] [5] The weather was warm, and a record 170,513 people attended ...
It is run over a distance of 1 1/8 miles (9 furlongs) on dirt. The Wood Memorial has been run as a Grade II event since 2017. [1] It was a Grade I race from 1974 (when grading was first introduced) to 1994 and again from 2002 to 2016. [2] The Wood Memorial is one of the major prep races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
It is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km), and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875. [ 7 ] The race was broadcast by NBC , with coverage by NBCSN of undercard races beginning at 12:30pm EDT and main network coverage of pre-race activities starting at ...
The inaugural running of the event was on 21 March 1981 as the Budweiser Tampa Bay Derby Stakes with sponsorship for Budweiser making it the richest stakes race at the track. [2] The event was won by the long shot Paristo, who was part of the field entry of horses at the odds of 35-1 in a time of 1:45 2 ⁄ 5 . [ 2 ]