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Expert picks for the 100th Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, a key Kentucky Derby prep race 10 horses set to run in 100th Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. See the full field with odds.
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 ...
Learn more about the history of Keeneland’s Blue Grass Stakes, and check out expert picks for Saturday’s key Kentucky Derby prep race.
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 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 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.
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 Ashland Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early April at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.It and the Ashland Oaks, the Kentucky Association racetrack's predecessor race, were named for Ashland, the homestead and breeding farm of statesman Henry Clay in Lexington, Kentucky.