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Charles Town Track officials announced in December 2015 that the purse for the 2016 running of the Charles Town Classic would be reduced to $1,250,000. [ 7 ] In 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States the event was moved to an August schedule and the conditions were changed to allow three-year-olds to participate.
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.
Track: Left-handed: Qualification: Four-year-olds and older: Weight: 123 lbs with allowances: Purse: $350,000 (since 2022) The Elkhorn Stakes is a Grade II American ...
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 list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association [1] and the Jockey Club of Canada. A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then ...
The first running was won in track record time of 1:55 4 ⁄ 5 by Iceberg II, who was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Horatio Luro and ridden by Jorge Contreras. [3] Later Iceberg II would be enthroned as US Champion Male Turf Horse for 1953. [4] Within the first few years the event with its impressive stakes gave turf ...
The following week Bewitch won the Thoroughbred Club Dinner Purse equaling the track record in 46 seconds flat for the four furlong distance that was held by Odessa Beulah since 27 April 1937. [2] Bewitch would win her first eight races and later would be voted U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Filly for 1947.
The American Pharoah Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of September during the fall meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.A Grade I event, it is open to two-year-old horses and is held at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.