Inaugurated 1920 Surface Dirt | Website www.churchilldowns.com | |
Location Churchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, United States Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing Distance 1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) | ||
The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of November at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. A Grade II event, the race is open to two-year-olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.
Inaugurated in 1920, the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes was contested at a distance of one mile from its inception through 1979. The race was transferred to the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky in 1931 but returned to Churchill Downs in 1934.
There was no race run between 1939 and 1945.
Records
Speed record: (at current distance of 1 1⁄16 miles)
References
Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA