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The Commonwealth Turf Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on turf held annually in November at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky during the fall meeting.
The favourite Kinloch Brae having fallen at the third-last fence, L'Escargot stayed on after the last to beat French Tan by a length and a half. He won the race again in 1971, and came fourth in 1972 and 1973. [1] In 1972 L'Escargot started as 17/2 favourite in his first Grand National but was brought down at the third fence.
Churchill Downs Stakes: Spring Arlington Million: Summer Beverly D. Stakes: Summer Grade II: Meet: Falls City Handicap: Fall Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes: Spring Eight Belles Stakes: Spring Alysheba Stakes: Spring American Turf Stakes: Spring Fleur de Lis Handicap: Summer Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes: Spring Pat Day Mile Stakes: Spring ...
After 12 horse racing deaths at Churchill Downs, the track will hold the remainder of its spring meeting at Ellis Park in Henderson, 134 miles from Louisville.
Kentucky Derby horse Tapit Trice on the track on Sunday. April 23 2023 at Churchill Downs. Tapit Trice, trained by Todd Pletcher, won the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes in April and the Lambholm South ...
The race was open to 20 horses, who qualified for the race by earning points on the 2023 Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km) and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875. The purse for 2023 was US$3 million. [2] The race was won by Mage.
Soon after returning home, he founded the Louisville Jockey Club, a site that would later be named Churchill Downs. The inaugural race took place in 1875 in front of 10,000 spectators, who watched ...
The American Graded Stakes Committee upgraded the race to its current Grade II status in 2010. [ 2 ] The most notable winner of the event is the 2004 winner Kitten's Joy who as a three-year-old went on to finish second in the Breeders' Cup Turf to Better Talk Now and was voted as the U.S. Champion Male Turf Horse .