Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes

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Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes
Ungraded Stakes race
LocationTurfway Park
Florence, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated1989
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.turfway.com
Race information
Distance1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfacePolytrack
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-olds colts
WeightAssigned
Purse$100,000

The Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late September as part of Kentucky Cup Day at Turfway Park in the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb of Florence, Kentucky.

A 1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) Grade III race for two-year-old colts, it was raced on natural dirt until 2005 when Turfway Park installed the new synthetic Polytrack surface. For 2009, the race was downgraded from a Grade III event to ungraded status and, along with its counterpart for filles, the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes, was then discontinued due to financial restraints.[1] The event offered a purse of $100,000 in 2008.

Inaugurated in 1989 as the In Memoriam Stakes, the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes was also run as the Alysheba Stakes from 1989 to 1993.

With the support of WinStar Farm, this race which was suspended in 2009 and 2010 due to economic challenges, will return in 2011. The Juvenile has lost its grade III ranking because it was not run for two consecutive years (2009–10).

Records[]

Time record
Most wins by an owner
  • 2 - Overbrook Farm (1995, 1996) and (1999, 2002)
Most wins by a jockey
Most wins by a trainer

Winners since 1991[]

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
2011 Hansen Mike Maker Kendall Hanson 1:45.83
2010 Not run
2009 Not run
2008 Stewart Elliott Kelly Breen Lori & George Hall 1:44.22
2007 Julien Leparoux Stonerside Stables 1:44.95
2006 Mike E. Smith Lucky Seven Stable 1:43.86
2005 Gary Stevens Patrick L. Biancone Fab Oak Stable et al. 1:46.42
2004 Robert Holthus Lewis S. Lakin 1:44.96
2003 Mr. Jester Rafael Bejarano Karen J. Biggs 1:46.61
2002 Vindication Mike E. Smith Bob Baffert 1:46.70
2001 Kenneth McPeek Select Stable 1:45.78
2000 Point Given Shane Sellers Bob Baffert The Thoroughbred Corp. 1:47.01
1999 Pat Day D. Wayne Lukas 1:47.02
1998 John J. Tammaro, Jr. Eaglestone Farm 1:45.63
1997 Mike E. Smith Nicholas Zito James McIngvale 1:43.17
1996 Boston Harbor Donna Barton D. Wayne Lukas Overbrook Farm 1:42.89
1995 Editor's Note Gary Stevens D. Wayne Lukas Overbrook Farm 1:45.07
1994 Tejano Run Jerry D. Bailey Kenneth McPeek Roy K. Monroe 1:46.10
1993 Bibury Court Margaret Grimm 1:47.60
1992 Mountain Cat D. Wayne Lukas Overbrook Farm 1:43.50
1991 Jerry Fanning Dan Dar Farm 1:45.68

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2009/August/10/Turfway-drops-Kentucky-Cup-juvenile-stakes.aspx
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