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Jefferson Cup Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1977

Surface
  
Turf

Website
  
Churchill Downs

Location
  
Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Jefferson Cup Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in mid-June near the end of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky. A race on turf, it is open to three-year-old horses of either gender.

For 2010, the purse was dropped from $200,000 to $100,000 and the race was downgraded from a Grade II event at a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs) to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.

Since inception, the Jefferson Cup Stakes has been contested at various distances:

  • 5.5 furlongs : 1977-1981
  • 1 116 miles : 1982, 2010 - 2013
  • 1 18 miles : 1983-2009
  • Records

    Speed record
  • 1 18 miles - 1:47.27 - King Cugat (2000)
  • 1 116 miles - 1:43.66 - Banned (2011)
  • References

    Jefferson Cup Stakes Wikipedia