Inaugurated 1970 Surface Turf | Purse 100,000 USD | |
Distance 1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs) | ||
The Regret Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies run on the turf at Churchill Downs in mid-June near the end of the Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky. Set at one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs), the Grade III Regret currently offers a purse of $100,000.
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History
The race is named for Harry Payne Whitney's 1915 champion filly Regret, the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby. In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, she is #71 and in a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, she was voted the third greatest filly in American racing history. Regret was undefeated as a two-year-old, she made her three-year old debut in the Derby, winning in wire-to-wire fashion.
The race was inaugurated in 1970 and became a graded stakes race for the first time in 1999. The Regret Stakes was run at six furlongs for its first twelve years (1970–1981). From 1982 to 1987 the race was run at a distance of one mile and from 1988 to 2002 it was run at 1 1⁄16 miles. From 2003 to present it has been run at its current distance of 1 1⁄8 miles. In 1977 a filly named Time for Pleasure won the race but was disqualified and placed second.
Records
Speed record: (at current distance of 1 1⁄8 miles)
Past winners
a # signifies that the race was run in two divisions (1982, 1980, 1976, 1974)