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Maker's Mark Mile Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1989

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
1,609 m

Website
  
www.keeneland.com

Track
  
Left-handed

Purse
  
300,000 USD

Location
  
Keeneland Race Course Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

The Maker's 46 Mile Stakes (2012–present), formerly the Maker's Mark Mile Stakes (1997-2011), and Fort Harrod Stakes (1989-1996) is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of April at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. Open to horses age four and older, it is contested on turf at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs).

Inaugurated as the Fort Harrod Stakes in 1989 at a distance of about 1 116 miles, since 1990 it has been contested at one mile. In 1997 the Maker's Mark distillery, began their sponsorship of the event. A Listed Stakes race in 1989 and 1990, it became a Grade III race from 1991 through 1999, then a Grade 2 race from 2000 through 2007. In 2008, it was listed as a Grade I event.

Records

Speed record
  • 1:33.54 - Perfect Soul (2004) (New stakes and course record)
  • Most wins
  • 2 - Kip Deville (2007, 2008)
  • 2 - Wise Dan (2013, 2014)
  • Most wins by an owner
  • 2 - Allen E. Paulson (1991, 1993)
  • 2 - Gainsborough Farm (1999, 2002)
  • 2 - IEAH Stables (2007, 2008)
  • 2 - Morton Fink (2013, 2014)
  • Most wins by a jockey
  • 3 - Jerry Bailey (1991, 1993, 1996)
  • 3 - Edgar Prado (2004, 2005, 2007)
  • Most wins by a trainer
  • 2 - Roger Attfield (1992, 2004)
  • 2 - William I. Mott (1993, 2009)
  • 2 - Richard E. Dutrow, Jr. (2007, 2008)
  • 2 - Charles LoPresti (2103, 2014)
  • References

    Maker's Mark Mile Stakes Wikipedia