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Blue Grass Stakes. Post time: 5:52 p.m. Saturday at Keeneland in Lexington.Purse: $1 million.Grade: 1.Distance: 1 1/8 miles.Jockey weight: 123 pounds. TV: FanDuel TV.Kentucky Derby qualifying ...
What: $1 million Grade 1 stakes race for 3-year-olds on dirt, a major prep race for next month’s Kentucky Derby Where: Keeneland Race Course Post time: 5:52 p.m. (10th race of an 11-race card)
“It is a privilege to have any horse run at Keeneland but to have one in such a historic race is really a privilege,” Ennis said. “Keeneland is like the royalty of horse racing in America.” 9.
The $1 million race for 3-year-olds on the road to the Triple Crown is scheduled for April 6, the second day of the track’s 16 days of racing from April 5-26. The 2024 Keeneland Spring Meet ...
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 ...
The Lexington Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt run annually in April during at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky during their spring meeting. The event currently offers a purse of $400,000. [1]
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]
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.