2026 Keeneland Media Guide

Trustees, Officers, Board of Directors

Trustees

Everett R. Dobson

William Farish Jr.

William M. Lear Jr.

Officers

Shannon Bishop Arvin

President and Chief Executive Officer

Gatewood Bell

Vice President of Racing

Dr. Stuart E. Brown II

Vice President of Equine Safety

Jeremy Kolonay

Chief Information Officer

Tony Lacy

Vice President of Sales

Christa Marrillia

Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Sarah S. Reeves

Chief Legal Officer

Hunter Stout

Chief Financial Officer

Marc Therrien

Managing Director of Keeneland Hospitality

Kari West

Chief of Staff

Board of Directors

Helen C. Alexander

Shannon B. Arvin

Barbara R. Banke

Ian G. Banwell

Antony R. Beck

James G. Bell

Julie Cauthen

Case Clay

Robert N. Clay

Luther Deaton Jr.

Everett R. Dobson

Aisling Duignan

William Farish Jr.

H. Greg Goodman

Eric Gustavson

Ben Haggin

S. Walker Hancock Jr.

Anne Archer Hinkle

G. Watts Humphrey Jr.

Bret Jones

William M. Lear Jr.

Gray Lyster

Reiley McDonald

Pope McLean Jr.

David O’Farrell

Garrett O’Rourke

Daisy Phipps Pulito

Sarah S. Reeves

Jaime Roth

William J. Shively

John G. Sikura

Mark Taylor

William W. Thomason Jr.

William T. Young Jr.

2026 Media Guide

Keeneland Association Inc. Thoroughbred Racing and Sales

This Media Guide is designed as reference for members of the media covering racing and sales at Keeneland during 2026. For additional information or photographs, please call the Communications Department at 859 254-3412 or 800 456-3412.

Contributing to the Media Guide production were Amy Gregory, Amy Owens, Jessica Downey, Cindi Palmer, Sara Fouts, Keeneland Association; Liane Crossley; Matt Anderson, Benoit Photo, Coady Media, Eclipse Sportswire, Chris J. Evans Photography, The Malicotes, Marc Manning,

Dara Allen

Senior Director of Marketing and Communications

Cormac Breathnach

Senior Director of Sales Operations

Kara Heissenbuttel

Senior Director of Community Relations

Phillip Richardson

Senior Director of Broadcast Services

Mandy Vaughan

General Manager of Hospitality

Wally Wallace

Senior Director of Facilities

Mark Brown Director of Mutuels

Roda Ferraro

Library Director

Sarah Fink

Director of Patron Operations

Justin Frakes Director of Building Services

Jenny Frey Director of Brand Management

Phillip Gardner Director of Security Administration

Gabby Gaudet

Director of Communications

Jim Goodman Director of Wagering Development

Brent Hacker Director of Sales Accounting

Enzina Mastrippolito, Peter Mooney, Bill Straus, TeamCoyle, photographs.

Please refer to page 36 for more information.

Contacts for media assistance

Gabby Gaudet, Director of Communications (ggaudet@keeneland.com)

Meredith Daugherty, Communications Manager (mdaugherty@keeneland.com)

Amy Owens, Communications Associate (aowens@keeneland.com)

Department Leadership

Shannon Haynes Director of Retail

Brian Hegnauer Director of Concessions

Drew Howell Director of Dining

Ben Huffman Racing Secretary

Laurel Humbert-Stock Director of Racing Finance

Jamie Kerby Director of Keeneland Hospitality Finance

Alfredo Laureano Track Superintendent

Ryan Mahan Director of Auctioneers

Mark Maronde Director of Bloodstock Services

Betsy May Director of Employee Engagement

Patrick McBride Director of Security Operations

Tiffany McDonald Director of Human Resources Operations

Chip McGaughey Director of Sales Development

Wayne Mogge Director of Stabling

Danica Novakovic

Director of Sales Technology and Innovation

Brian Pancir

Executive Chef

Dean Roethemeier Director of Sales Operations

Hannah Sawyer Director of Events

Andrew Sears

Director of Maintenance

Bonnie Senft

Sponsorship Director

Geoff Shean Director of IT Infrastructure

Don Slaughter Director of Administrative Services

Mark Snow Director of Electrical Services

Eric Soard Director of Mechanical Services

Ryan Spaight Director of IT Applications

Jo Spradlin Controller

Ashley Whalen Director of Racing and Sales Administration

Marsh Woodrow Director of Building Trades

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Keeneland

Jockey, Trainer Biographies

About the Keeneland Association

Located in the heart of Central Kentucky and surrounded by acres of Kentucky Bluegrass, Keeneland is a worldwide attraction with an important role in Thoroughbred breeding and racing.

The Keeneland Association was founded 90 years ago by a group of prominent Central Kentucky breeders with a goal, outlined in the original prospectus, to “create a model race track to perpetuate and improve the sport and to provide a course that is intended to serve as a symbol of the fine traditions of Thoroughbred racing.”

Today Keeneland is a privately held company with a not-for-profit mission. Earnings are reinvested in the operation in the form of higher purses for horsemen and capital improvements, with a substantial portion used for industry innovations, promotion and charitable contributions. Keeneland pays taxes, but not dividends, and its Directors serve without compensation.

As the world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house, Keeneland conducts five

Location: Six miles west of Lexington on U.S. Highway 60 (Versailles Road), adjacent to Blue Grass Airport.

Visitors: Keeneland is open year-round and welcomes visitors any time. For fans who enjoy watching morning works, horses are training on Keeneland’s main track and adjacent training track from 6-10 a.m. (Main track is closed most days during the winter.) Safety around horses is paramount, and Keeneland horses always have the right of way.

Tours: For information about self-guided tours and guided tours, visit Keeneland.com/visitingkeeneland.

Parking: See Keeneland.com/welcome.

Total Area of Grounds: 1,234 acres.

Stable Area Capacity: 57 barns, 1,951 stalls.

Main Track: 1 1/16-mile dirt oval, with 4½furlong and 7-furlong chutes. Stretch length, 1,236 feet. Width, 75-80 feet. The Beard Course begins in a chute on the backstretch and measures 7 furlongs, 184 feet. It is named for Major Louis A. Beard, a founding member of Keeneland. The Headley Course is used for 4½-furlong races for 2-year-oldsand begins in a chute on the final turn. It is named for Keeneland’s first President, Hal Price Headley.

onsite sales annually and in 2024 debuted the Championship Sale days before the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Graduates of Keeneland sales include 2018 Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year Justify along with horses that have won 145 Breeders’ Cup races.

Each April and October, the sport’s leading owners, trainers and jockeys are at Keeneland to compete for some of North America’s richest purses. Anchoring the Spring Meet are the $1.25 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) and the $750,000 Central Bank Ashland (G1), both major targets of top 3-year-olds. Keeneland’s Fall Meet opens with Fall Stars Weekend, featuring 11 stakes led by the $1.25 million Coolmore Turf Mile (G1). Eight Fall Meet stakes are Breeders’ Cup Challenge races, awarding each winner a berth in the World Championships.

Keeneland hosted the Breeders’ Cup in 2015, 2020 and 2022 and will again on Oct. 30-31.

General

Turf Course: 7½ furlongs. Stretch length: 1,190 feet. Width: 70 feet at finish line; 58 feet at mile pole. Turf course is called the Haggin Course, named for Louis Lee Haggin, Keeneland’s President from 1940-1956.

Training Track: 5 furlongs, all-weather.

Admission Prices

Racing

Visit tickets.Keeneland.com for prices, availability and additional information. All tickets must be pre-purchased online through tickets.Keeneland.com or on the Keeneland Race Day App.

Clubhouse: Annual membership

Children 12 and under admitted free of charge.

Sales

Auctions are free and open to the public. Concessions are available.

Employment

April 3-24* • Oct. 2-24 No racing Mondays, Tuesdays or Easter, April 5. Breeders’ Cup World Championships Oct. 30-31

DATES

April Selected Horses of Racing Age April 24

September Yearling Sept.14-26

Championship Oct. 28

November Breeding Stock Nov. 3-10

November Horses of Racing Age Nov. 11

January Horses of All Ages Jan. 11-14, 2027

New Paddock Building, Other Enhancements Welcome Fans

Keeneland is celebrating an exciting chapter during the 2026 Spring Meet with the debut of the interior hospitality spaces within its newly constructed Paddock Building. Designed to honor Keeneland’s timeless traditions, the Paddock Building reflects the organization’s commitment to attracting new fans and enhancing the way guests experience fresh, elevated hospitality.

“The Paddock Building represents an investment in the Thoroughbred industry and furthers Keeneland’s mission to support and grow the sport,” Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin said. “It speaks to our confidence in racing’s future while creating new, meaningful ways to engage guests year-round.”

The Paddock Building reflects Keeneland’s heritage while reimagining the race day for today’s fans. Lexington-based designer Matthew Carter, celebrated for his skill in blending timeless Southern elegance with fresh interiors, led the interior design process.

Designed for year-round use, the Paddock Building will be a premier setting for race meets, auctions and private events. The new facility introduces more than 1,000 public dining tickets each race day, offering guests a range of distinctive dining options alongside the reimagined Saddling Paddock and Stakes Winner’s Circle, both of which debuted during the 2025 Fall Meet. Each venue provides a unique vantage point into the pageantry and preparation that define a race day at Keeneland.

Here are the new venues in the Paddock Building:

1936 Room: Commemorating the year Keeneland opened for racing, this all-inclusive hospitality space on the north side has lounge seating, high-top tables, passed heavy hors d’oeuvres and premium bar service in a reception-style setting. Guests will enjoy an up-close view as jockeys pass through the room on their way to the Saddling Paddock before each race. The room also grants exclusive access to the Paddock Lawn, a landscaped green space beside the Saddling Paddock.

Sycamore Room: Offering a la carte high-end dining featuring classic American cuisine, the room named for the iconic tree at Keeneland is on the south end of the first floor and is adjacent to the Stakes Winner’s Circle.

Dogwood Room: This second-floor venue, which overlooks the Saddling Paddock, features buffet-style dining.

Ivy Room: This space on the second floor complements the Dogwood Room atmosphere and offerings with traditional Keeneland dining. The room is for private group gatherings and is not included in public ticket offerings.

The Rooftop: This area on the third floor has two distinct spaces with sweeping views of the saddling paddock and the entire Keeneland campus: a fully enclosed premium indoor dining room and a covered outdoor space anchored by a bar and patio seating.

Each venue in the Paddock Building will follow a business casual dress code.

Repositioned Saddling Paddock among Enhancements

Those attending the 2025 Fall Meet were the first to experience the initial phase of Keeneland’s construction enhancements. They include:

• East Entrance and East Plaza along with expanded walkways at the South and East Entrances.

• Centrally located saddling stalls and Saddling Paddock enhancements. Saddling stalls have been repositioned along the east side of the Paddock, giving fans improved visibility of horses and their connections as they prepare for each race. This layout increases safety in the Paddock.

• Jockeys Quarters and jockey entry. A new Jockeys Quarters located beneath the Paddock Building features modernized locker rooms, fitness area, steam and sauna amenities and other race-day essentials. Riders enter the Saddling Paddock through a new centralized location from the Paddock Building.

• Stakes Winner’s Circle. Formerly known as the Walking Ring, this area now is where fans can share in the thrill of victory alongside the winners of all stakes races. Trophy presentations following graded stakes races formerly were conducted on the Keeneland turf course. Gracing the stone gates in the area are two bronze statues: “Horse and Jockey” by Isidore Bonheur.

In addition, a two-story Operations Building was built within walking distance of the race track and Sales Pavilion. This structure enables Keeneland to consolidate core business and operations teams under one roof in an updated work environment.

New structures are architecturally consistent with the track’s Clubhouse, built in the 1930s, and Grandstand and feature the two-over-two pattern of stonework unique to Keeneland.

Begun in January 2024, the construction project is the largest undertaking in Keeneland history and marks the first major construction here since Keeneland Library opened in 2002.

A History of Giving Back

In 1936, Keeneland was created as a model race track for the Thoroughbred industry. Toward our founding mission, revenues from racing and sales operations are reinvested in the horse industry, funding purse money for our world-class racing program and supporting marketing and research initiatives in the areas of equine safety and welfare.

Our founders instilled a vision for contributing to the betterment of racing and to the Central Kentucky community. We focus charitable giving on causes related to the Thoroughbred industry, arts and culture, community, education and health and human services.

In 2025, Keeneland contributed more than $1.2 million to organizations across Central Kentucky and the Thoroughbred industry through a mix of financial and in-kind sponsorships. We continued to team with corporate and race sponsors and industry partners who share our mission to enhance the quality of life in the community and the state.

One of Keeneland’s oldest partners in philanthropic endeavors is Maker’s Mark, which during the 1958 Fall Meet began selling its bourbon to racing fans and for many years has produced commemorative bottles with Keeneland to support a range of worthwhile activities.

In 2024, Keeneland and Maker’s Mark launched “Greats of the Gate,” a 10-year bottle series celebrating Thoroughbred racing’s most iconic horses and featuring a different horse each year. Proceeds from the 2025 bottles, which recognized the legendary 19th century racehorse and stallion Lexington, benefit Kentucky Classic Arts, Kentucky Harvest, Art Center of the Bluegrass and Blue Grass Farms Charities

Other initiatives last year included: College Scholarship Day Presented by Lane’s End: Thousands of students participate in the popular event each race meet that awards ten $2,000 scholarships provided by Keeneland and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association and two $10,000 scholarships provided by Lane’s End.

Heroes Day: Event recognizes members of the military, first responders, law enforcement, EMTs, health care workers and their families with free admission and lunch provided by Marriott Griffin Gate (Spring Meet) and City Barbeque (Fall Meet) along with children’s activities, a spectacular flag unfurling on the main track and special recognitions. Earlier in the week before the event, Bad Ass Coffee served local fire and police coffee and pastries, while City Barbeque provided lunch and bread pudding to 150 veterans at the Lexington Veterans Medical Center (Troy Bowling Campus) at the University of Kentucky.

Jockey Autograph Signing: Members of the Keeneland jockey colony joined retired riders for autograph sessions each race meet that raised a total of $11,695 for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund. In April, Keeneland partnered with Racing Hall of Fame riders, leading active jockeys and racing personalities to raise a record $445,000 during the seventh annual PDJF Telethon Presented by Lane’s End.

During the 18th Make-A-Wish Day in October, Keeneland teamed with local Thoroughbred farms and organizations to grant wishes for 11 children. The children and their families took part in a VIP race-day experience complete with presenting a trophy after each race, meeting jockeys and experiencing all the excitement of a race day.

Teacher Appreciation Day: During the Fall Meet, Keeneland, CocaCola and UPS honored teachers, educators and staff with free admission, prize giveaways and complimentary drinks. Keeneland also recognized educators with Fayette County schools.

Additional donations during the Spring Meet included:

$10,000 from Toyota and Keeneland to the YMCA of Central Kentucky

Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet partnered with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s office and Keeneland to highlight Team Kentucky Storm Relief and encourage donations to assist people impacted by severe weather around the state.

More Fall Meet donations included:

$200,000 from Bank of America each to Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville and Lexington Habitat for Humanity

$10,000 from Juddmonte and Keeneland to the Kentucky Equine Management Internship program, which provides opportunities to college students interested in careers in equine management.

$10,000 from Tito’s Handmade Vodka to the Secretariat Center, which works to prepare off-track Thoroughbreds for successful second careers, through its “Love, Tito’s” program and in conjunction with sales of the Tito’s Trifecta cocktail

$5,000 from Lexus of Lexington and Keeneland to The MAP Foundation to benefit the Woodhill Community Center

For both meets, Keeneland and Country Boy Brewing of Lexington again teamed to produce Keeneland Lager. Country Boy Brewing and Kentucky Eagle donated $1 per case to support Blue Grass Farms Charities.

Keeneland and Stable Recovery Launch Partnership

Keeneland and Stable Recovery, a groundbreaking peerdriven program that offers recovering addicts the opportunity to learn the skills needed to find meaningful employment in the Thoroughbred industry, have teamed to launch a dedicated Maintenance Cohort at the track.

Begun in August 2025, the Maintenance Cohort is a specialized extension of the existing 90-day Taylor Made School of Horsemanship focusing on practical skills, job readiness and character development through hard work and accountability. Keeneland is the first race track nationally to provide onsite housing and full-time employment for the eight men participating in the new initiative who work with Keeneland’s maintenance team to gain the hands-on experience necessary to contribute to the track’s operation.

“Keeneland is excited to support the life-changing work being done by Stable Recovery,” Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin said. “Stable Recovery and Keeneland share a commitment to social responsibility and to bettering the quality of life in our community. Together, we can create a legacy that transforms lives and strengthens our equine industry.”

Stable Recovery partners with the Taylor Made School of Horsemanship to provide an environment where men live, work and recover together, attending 12-step meetings, additional support groups and horsemanship skill groups led by top professionals in the industry. Life skills such as accountability, structure, discipline and responsibility are taught as are employable skills aimed at providing these men with the opportunities for a second chance.

In addition to trade skills, the Maintenance Cohort curriculum includes hands-on horsemanship and stable management training; track maintenance and safety procedures; equine care and veterinary basics; and professional development focused on the unique demands of Keeneland.

“This collaboration is a powerful statement about the value of redemption, the healing bond between horses and humans and the shared belief that everyone deserves a second chance,” Stable Recovery CEO Christian Countzler said. “Keeneland’s support gives our men not only purpose and employment, but dignity and hope. We couldn’t ask for a better partner in this mission.”

More than 100 individuals have graduated from the Stable Recovery program, the brainchild of Taylor Made Farm’s Frank Taylor.

Important Outreach

Visit Keeneland.com for more information about these programs: Keeneland Giving: Kentucky-based 501(c)(3) organizations may apply for gifts, services or sponsorships for their fundraising events.

Keeneland Foundation: Provides annual grants to Kentuckybased 501(c)(3) organizations with priority being groups in Central Kentucky. Funding directly connected to proceeds from the Keeneland/Cross Gate Gallery Sporting Art Auction (see page 30) and historically targets capital expansion and equipment purchases.

Keeneland Library Foundation: This 501(c)(3) non-profit supports unique Library projects that preserve and share the Thoroughbred industry’s past and present with an eye to the future. Mission is to broaden Keeneland Library’s access and outreach initiatives through educational programs for youth and adults, exhibits and targeted digitization and preservation projects of its unique collections.

Through the Years

Keeneland’s charitable outreach has been at the forefront of historic civic and horse industry initiatives in Central Kentucky for more than 80 years:

• In 1954, Keeneland gave $200,000 to the University of Kentucky to construct a dormitory.

• In 1959, Keeneland closed for two days as its employees, using Keeneland equipment, moved St. Joseph Hospital (then known as the City’s Hospital) from downtown Lexington to its current location.

• At the height of the polio epidemic, Keeneland paid $10,000 for the Salk vaccine to assist in inoculating Fayette County children who otherwise might not have been vaccinated.

• In the mid-1980s, Keeneland gave $1 million over several years to establish the University of Kentucky’s Maxwell A. Gluck Equine Research Center.

Major funding gifts from Keeneland have positively impacted numerous Central Kentucky institutions and organizations:

• Kentucky Educational Television (KET): $250,000 to help establish an endowment to develop original Kentucky programming.

• Kentucky Historical Society: $250,000 to build the Keeneland Changing Exhibits Gallery, a temporary collections space.

• Midway College: $150,000 to expand its equine studies program.

• Fayette Education Foundation: $60,000 to reward and recognize Fayette County schools that successfully raise the education standards for all students.

• Lexington’s Living Arts & Science Center: $25,000 for a new classroom.

• Kentucky Blood Center: $60,000 to help build a new facility.

• University of Kentucky’s W.T. Young Library: $50,000 to transform the Keeneland Room into an active meeting space.

Scan to learn more about Keeneland’s commitment to safety.

KEENELAND’S COMMITMENT TO

HISA is the national body that oversees safety and integrity rules for racing. Keeneland is compliant with HISA’s Racetrack Safety Program.

A Culture of Safety

Keeneland’s Equine Safety team reviews a full picture of horses competing on our grounds through the following:

Advancing with Tech

Keeneland leverages the best veterinary care in the world while exploring new advancements in technology to keep our equine athletes safe:

EVALUATE

Expert visual & hands-on evaluation of the horse’s physical condition

ANALYZE

Review of data, records & history of the racehorse including race performance

ASSESS

Identify need for diagnostics, review findings & make recommendations for the horse’s care

VET CAM

Keeneland’s stateof-the-art VetCam video and 24/7 barn surveillance system provide consistent monitoring of our equine athletes throughout our grounds

DATA-DRIVEN TECH INITIATIVES

Keeneland contributes data to these initiatives to analyze equine injuries & prevent them from occurring

Keeneland’s 7 DAY ENTRY REQUIREMENT

allows our Equine Safety team to assess potential risk factors, perform examinations and consult with attending veterinarians on every racehorse.

Each competing racehorse receives a minimum of

10 UNIQUE INTERACTIONS

with Keeneland, private and regulatory veterinarians prior to race

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

Horses at Keeneland wear StrideSAFE

Sensors during racing that analyze a horse’s stride, detect abnormalities & signal the need for diagnostics

Each race day, Keeneland takes 93 MOISTURE

READINGS

on our dirt and turf tracks to ensure consistency of the surface

PET SCAN & MRI TECHNOLOGY

Available from nearby world-renowned veterinary providers

Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital and Hagyard Equine Medical Institute

Keeneland & the University of Kentucky Sports Medicine Institute collaborate on JOCKEY SAFETY

initiatives, including wellness & concussion studies, equipment improvements & more

A world-renowned public research institution, Keeneland Library began in 1939 when Keeneland Trustee and Director William Arnold Hanger acquired the 2,300-volume Turf collection of Robert James Turnbull and donated the material to Keeneland.

That donation was the nucleus for the collection at the Library, which today is the world’s largest repository of information related to the Thoroughbred open to the public with more than 40,000 books, five million photographic negatives and prints, and millions of newspaper and magazine articles about all aspects of the equine industry. The Library is located in a 10,000-square-foot building that opened in July 2002.

Thousands of journalists, writers, historians, industry stakeholders, academics and racing fans of all ages perform research at the Library or request information from its staff each year. The Library hosts a lecture series, maintains physical and virtual exhibits, engages in outreach and education initiatives and provides research and licensing services to community, state and national organizations.

Visitors can engage freely with the Library’s exhibits or trace Keeneland’s history by examining the Library’s scrapbooks, which

Outreach and Community Engagement

In 2025, Keeneland Library:

• Worked with 8,646 reference and research patrons from every state and 26 countries.

• Completed 2,276 research projects and licensed 3,735 photographs for 20 industry publications and media outlets; 31 mainstream media outlets; 62 international industry organizations; and 70 community organizations across the country.

• Freely reached more than 185,000 youth and adults from every state and 36 countries through its education and outreach services.

• Hosted 143 free educational programs for 10,931 community and industry stakeholders.

• Curated traveling exhibits in seven states, while launching two new exhibitions, including the Library’s first bilingual exhibit.

• Published three books, including a joint publication of the seminal The Racetracks of America compendium released in partnership with the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

• Added 1,146 equine industry books, 38,000 historic industry photographs and 4,127 current industry news articles to the collections for future researchers.

• Completed the Hemment Collection preservation project to index and digitize the country’s oldest collection of Turf photography.

• Launched a searchable digital repository showcasing the invaluable Peb Collection.

• Finished a two-year preservation project to increase the lifespan of the Library’s rarest books.

For more information about Keeneland Library and how you can support its preservation and outreach efforts, visit Keeneland.com/library.

Keeneland Library

Current exhibit celebrates Latinos in racing

Keeneland Library is now presenting Raíces: The Making of Latino Legacies in Racing, a landmark showcase and education initiative that highlights 100 trailblazing Latino men and women whose contributions have shaped Thoroughbred racing and breeding from the late 1800s to today. Raíces shines a light on Latino industry professionals from across the Americas through biographical

contain photographs from the track’s inception and depict many milestones, including major construction projects; visits by royalty, celebrities and former U.S. Presidents; and beautiful panoramas of Keeneland’s grounds. A display area near the Library entrance exhibits racing artifacts and various collectibles on a rotating basis. In addition, a portion of the Library’s equine art collection is on display year-round. Today, some of the most indispensable resources in the Library include:

• More than 15 million pages of Daily Racing Form dating back to 1896. In 2000, the Form donated the priceless archive, which includes a large run of The Morning Telegraph, the predecessor of the Eastern edition of the Form. The Morning Telegraph touted itself as “America’s Oldest Authority on Motion Pictures, Theatre and Turf” and featured headlines from the track juxtaposed with photos of Hollywood and Broadway celebrities.

• Complete runs of The Blood-Horse, Livestock Record, Thoroughbred Record, Thoroughbred Times and more than 20 additional industry serials dating from the late 1800s to the present.

• Approximately 3,500 pieces of humorous caricatures and equine cartoons by Pierre Bellocq, the internationally celebrated artist known as “Peb.” He donated the material, representing nearly a half-century of work, in 2009. A curated online exhibit, The Artistry of Peb, is on the Library’s website.

• More than 18,000 glass plate negatives of Charles Christian Cook, one of the first photographers in the U.S. to specialize in race track scenes from the early 1900s through the 1930s.

vignettes, rare images and never-before-displayed artifacts. The free exhibit is presented in English with an accompanying Spanish audio guide, marking the Library’s first fully bilingual interpretive experience. Developed in collaboration with writers, historians and photographers from six countries, the exhibit underscores the depth, breadth and enduring impact of Latino heritage within the sport.

• More than a quarter-million film negatives of racing, finish line and winner’s circles shots of the 1930s-1960s from photographer Bert Morgan.

• Some 12,000 slides along with print photographs and track programs of prominent Southern California photographer Katey Barrett. Acquired in December 2014, the material represents the Library’s first collection of color slides and the first to document racing in California from the 1970s to the present.

• A nearly complete run of The Spirit of the Times, which provides a weekly discussion about horse racing and breeding in America during the 19th century.

• Approximately 6,500 photographic prints by John Hemment dating from 1890s through 1910 documenting now-defunct tracks such as Morris Park and Sheepshead Bay. Virtual exhibits entitled A Day in the Life and Historic Tracks, featuring selected images from the Hemment Collection, can be found on the Library’s website.

• North American racing charts dating from the early 19th century to the present.

• Roughly 2 million film negatives from photographer Jim Raftery that comprise the country’s largest 20th century Turf photograph collection.

Keeneland Library

Hours: Open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ET.

Website: Keeneland.com/library

Phone: 859 288-4223

Keeneland Hosts Fourth Breeders’ Cup in 2026

With picturesque surroundings that make a thrilling backdrop to Thoroughbred racing, Keeneland is preparing to host the 14-race Breeders’ Cup World Championships for the fourth time on Oct. 30-31.

Here is a recap of Keeneland’s first three runnings, which featured outstanding racing and posted impressive business figures. (Results of Breeders’ Cup races at Keeneland begin on page 155.)

Homecoming in 2015

Keeneland’s first Breeders’ Cup delivered a memorable homecoming to Central Kentucky, the heart of the Thoroughbred industry. Topping the event was the performance by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, who won the $5 million Classic by 6½ lengths in track-record time in the final race of his career. American Pharoah was named Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male.

Other Breeders’ Cup winners were Catch a Glimpse (Juvenile Fillies Turf), Found (IRE) (Turf), Hit It a Bomb (Juvenile Turf), Liam’s Map (Dirt Mile), Mongolian Saturday (Turf Sprint), Nyquist (Juvenile), Runhappy (Sprint), Songbird (Juvenile Fillies), Stephanie’s Kitten (Filly and Mare Turf), Stopchargingmaria (Distaff), Tepin (Mile) and Wavell Avenue (Filly and Mare Sprint).

The track accommodated guests from around the world with 44,947 fans on Friday, a track record that stood for one day and a record attendance for a Breeders’ Cup Friday. Saturday’s attendance was 50,155.

“This was a day that people will look back on and tell people they were here and it’s exactly why the Breeders’ Cup was created: to showcase the very best of our sport,” said Craig Fravel, who at the time was Breeders’ Cup President and CEO. “We’re thrilled with the crowd over both days, the strong business levels and our gracious hosts here at Keeneland and the greater Lexington area.”

Highlights of 2020

In September 2020, Breeders’ Cup announced that Keeneland would host the 2022 World Championships while stating the 2020 event would be held with only essential personnel and participants – no on-site fans –because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The same limitations were in place for Keeneland’s Fall Meet that preceded the Breeders’ Cup.

Despite the challenges of conducting an event during the pandemic, the 2020 Breeders’ Cup produced two days of racing that were as spectacular as always.

In the $6 million Classic, Kentucky Derby (G1) Presented by Woodford Reserve winner

Authentic scored a decisive front-running victory in the final race of his career. Authentic lowered the 1¼-mile track record set by American Pharoah when he won in 1:59.60.

Authentic, who sold for $350,000 at Keeneland’s 2018 September Yearling Sale, was named the year’s Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male.

Other highlights of the 2020 Breeders’ Cup included four Breeders’ Cup winners for trainer Brad Cox: Aunt Pearl (IRE) (Juvenile Fillies Turf), Essential Quality (Juvenile), Knicks Go (Dirt Mile in track-record time) and Monomoy Girl (Distaff). Knicks Go, Aunt Pearl and Essential Quality were coming off wins during Keeneland’s Fall Meet.

The 2020 Breeders’ Cup also featured a strong European showing. Trainer Aidan O’Brien sent out the first three finishers in the Mile, winning the race with 73-1 longshot Order of Australia (IRE); French Group 1 winner Audarya (FR) lowered the course record in the Filly and Mare Turf; multiple Group 1-winning filly Tarnawa (IRE) defeated males in the Turf with multiple Group 1-winning filly Magical (IRE) running second; and Glass Slippers (GB), another multiple Group 1-winning filly, also prevailed against males when she captured the Turf Sprint.

Other Breeders’ Cup winners were Fire At Will (Juvenile Turf), Gamine (Filly and Mare Sprint), Golden Pal (Juvenile Turf Sprint), Vequist (Juvenile Fillies) and Whitmore (Sprint).

Flightline dominates in 2022

West Coast-based Flightline capped an undefeated career when he won the $6 million Classic by 8¼ lengths (a record for the race). The performance came in the final race for Flightline, who later was named the 2022 Horse of the Year. (Two days after the Classic, a 2.5% ownership

2022 Breeders’ Cup Has $82 Million Economic Impact

The 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland generated a total estimated economic impact of $81,846,897 in Lexington and surrounding areas. Results of the study led by University of Louisville Economics Professor Thomas E. Lambert, Ph.D., represent the second-highest economic impact in Breeders’ Cup history, following the record set in 2017 at Del Mar. Economic benefits of the 2022 Breeders’ Cup include:

• $30.5 million in on-track spending, including wagering, concessions, parking, merchandise and more.

• $33.6 million in spending on hotels, retailers, food and drink, transportation and off-track entertainment.

• $10 million in track improvement investments for Keeneland with $7.5 million in labor and material costs generated by the projects boosting the Lexington economy by an estimated $17.5 million overall.

• $900,000 secured in state and local tax revenues and $5.3 million secured in federal tax revenues.

interest in Flightline sold at Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale for $4.6 million to Brookdale Farm, agent.)

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Godolphin set a Breeders’ Cup record with four victories, thanks to three European-based winners trained by Charlie Appleby and one from the U.S. conditioned by Bill Mott. Appleby won the Juvenile Turf Sprint with Mischief Magic (IRE), the Mile with Modern Games (IRE) and the Turf with Rebel’s Romance (IRE). Mott sent out Cody’s Wish to take the Dirt Mile.

Also scoring three Breeders’ Cup races was trainer Aidan O’Brien, who won with horses owned by Coolmore partners: Juvenile Fillies Turf with Mediate (IRE), Juvenile Turf with Victoria Road (IRE) and Filly and Mare Turf with Tuesday (IRE). Two of those horses set course records: Rebels Romance (1½ miles) and Tuesday (1 3/16 miles).

Keeneland’s Fall Meet yielded four Breeders’ Cup winners: Franklin (now Grade 2) winner Caravel won the Turf Sprint; Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) winner Forte took the Juvenile; Juddmonte Spinster (G1) winner Malathaat won the Distaff; and Darley Alcibiades (G1) winner Wonder Wheel captured the Juvenile Fillies.

Todd Pletcher trains Forte and Malathaat. Mott also won the Sprint with Elite Power. The other Breeders’ Cup winner was Goodnight Olive (Filly and Mare Sprint), trained by Chad Brown.

The business side of the Breeders’ Cup was just as outstanding as the racing The event generated a record global wagering pool of $189 million, highest in Breeders’ Cup history and 3.4% higher than the prior record of $182.9 million set in 2021. Records also were set for individual-day handle totals with wagering on Future Stars Friday reaching $66.1 million and on Championship Saturday amassing $122.9 million.

Horses competing in the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland are stabled in the nine barns on Rice Road formally called the Keeneland Training Center.

Handle for the 2022 Breeders’ Cup

Shannon Bishop Arvin | President and CEO

Shannon Bishop Arvin has been Keeneland’s eighth President and CEO since 2021. She began practicing law in 2002 at the Lexington firm Stoll Keenon Ogden (SKO), where she represented Thoroughbred owners and industry organizations in Kentucky and around the world. As an SKO member, in 2008 she began serving as corporate counsel to Keeneland, and she has been corporate secretary and advisory member of Keeneland’s Board of Directors since 2015.

Arvin is Chair of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and is on the Board of Directors of Stock Yards Bancorp and the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. She is a Trustee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and is President of the Board of The Lexington School. She became a member of The Jockey Club in 2019 and a

Trustee of The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation in 2021.

She has several notable links to Keeneland. Her grandfather W.T. “Bish” Bishop began working at Keeneland before the track opened in 1936 and served as General Manager until 1971. Her father, the late William T. “Buddy” Bishop III, grew up at Keeneland, living in an apartment next to the Clubhouse. Buddy Bishop’s lifelong service to Keeneland included positions as Director, Secretary, Trustee and Counsel. He was also a partner at SKO, where he and Shannon worked together at the firm until Buddy’s passing in 2008.

Arvin has a B.A. in Political Science, International Studies, with High Honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2002.

Shannon and her husband, Will, have two daughters, Bishop and McCutchen.

Gatewood Bell | Vice President of Racing

Prominent Central Kentucky horseman and noted bloodstock adviser Gatewood Bell became Keeneland’s Vice President of Racing in February 2021.

Raised on his family’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Bell received a finance degree with honors from the University of Kentucky in 2004. After graduation, he worked for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin for three seasons in Florida, Kentucky and New York. He also represented jockey Fernando

Jara as an agent on the East Coast.

In 2011, Bell founded Cromwell Bloodstock, a full-service bloodstock agency and consulting firm named after a company owned by his grandfather, John A. Bell, and has been its president for the past decade. He is also a member of The Jockey Club, Breeders’ Cup Ltd., the American Graded Stakes Committee and the Equibase Management Committee. Bell previously was on the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and was the U.S. representative for Goffs Sales of Ireland.

Gatewood and his wife, Lauren, have three children: Eloise, Daisy and Gus.

Dr. Stuart E. Brown II | Vice President of Equine Safety

Internationally respected equine veterinarian Dr. Stuart E. Brown II, who joined Keeneland in June 2020, is Vice President of Equine Safety.

Dr. Brown leads Keeneland’s effort to develop, communicate and enforce safety and integrity policies for both racing and sales operations; reviews all racing-related accidents with the goal of prevention; assesses relevant equine health and safety research; and proactively communicates best practices to the racing community and public. His duties encompass Keeneland and The Thoroughbred Center, the training center in Lexington that Keeneland owns.

Dr. Brown completed his undergraduate work at Transylvania University and earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Tuskegee University. He spent nearly 30 years with Lexington’s Hagyard Equine Medical

Institute, specializing in equine reproduction and ambulatory medicine.

A member of The Jockey Club, he has served many equine and veterinary industry organizations in leadership roles, including the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP), American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, Kentucky Thoroughbred Association (KTA), Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association (KVMA), Organization of Racing Investigators (ORI), Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) and University of Kentucky Equine Science.

He currently is Chairman of both the AAEP Caribbean Racehorse Welfare Working Group and the AVMA Insurance Trust.

Dr. Brown received the 2022 KVMA Distinguished Service Award; the 2021 AVMA Meritorious Service Award; and the 2017 AAEP President’s Award.

He is married to Jen Roytz and lives in Versailles, Kentucky.

Jeremy Kolonay | Chief Information Officer

In January 2026, Keeneland named Jeremy Kolonay its new Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for Keeneland’s digital strategy, working across all departments to align digital and technology efforts to achieve the organization’s most important outcomes.

Kolonay formerly was Vice President, Digital at Next Logical Decision (NLD), a Kentucky-based

digital and technology consulting firm that worked with Keeneland. He also has served as a transformative executive coach and technology leader in national industries such as retail/digital commerce, digital marketing and federal consulting for civilian, defense and intelligence agencies.

Born in Detroit, Kolonay grew up outside Ashland, Kentucky and graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in economics.

Jeremy has two children, Katherine and Henry.

Tony Lacy | Vice President of Sales

Tony Lacy brought a depth of international racing and sales experience to Keeneland when he was named Vice President of Sales in April 2021.

A fourth-generation horseman from Ireland, Lacy began his career as an assistant trainer to his father, T. F. “Tom” Lacy, a steeplechase jockey who came within a length of defeating the legendary Arkle in the 1964 Irish Grand National. The younger Lacy was a successful amateur jockey in Ireland for 11 years.

After working for trainers in France and Dubai, Lacy gained experience

in U.S. sales and breeding with Wintergreen Farm in Kentucky and 2-yearold consignor Jerry Bailey in Florida. In 2001, he helped establish Four Star Sales, eventually becoming a partner and developing the company into a leading North American consignor with a diverse client portfolio.

From 2008-2021, Lacy served as the North American representative for the French Thoroughbred sales company Arqana. He also has counseled and represented various international breeding and racing organizations.

Lacy is President of the Board of Directors of New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program. He is a Past President of the Thoroughbred Club of America.

Tony and his wife, Kathy, reside in Lexington.

Christa Marrillia | Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Christa Marrillia began her career at Keeneland in 2003 after she served as an intern in the Marketing department while pursuing a marketing degree at the University of Kentucky. She oversees the Broadcasting, Communications, Marketing, Office Services and Retail teams.

A native of Midway, Kentucky, Marrillia is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. She is

In February 2026, Sarah Sloan Reeves became Keeneland’s Chief Legal Officer after more than 15 years advising the organization at Stoll Keenon Ogden (SKO), the only outside legal counsel Keeneland has engaged.

During her time at SKO, Reeves served as Keeneland’s Corporate Secretary and General Counsel since 2020 and supported the organization’s legal needs since joining the firm in 2009. She has acted as counsel to and Corporate Secretary of the Breeders’ Cup and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association while advising many of Keeneland’s horse farm partners around the world and maintaining an active estate planning practice.

actively engaged in the community as a member of the VisitLEX Tourism Commission and as a Trustee of Midway University. Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton appointed Marrillia to serve on the city’s 250 Lex Planning Commission, which planned a yearlong celebration of Lexington’s 250th anniversary in 2025. She also is a member and past president of the Bluegrass Hospitality Association and formerly served on the boards of LexArts and the Downtown Lexington Partnership.

Christa and her husband, Josh, have two sons, Lincoln and Winston.

Reeves has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America® for her work in equine and commercial law and was previously named a “Rising Star” by Kentucky Super Lawyers®. She has also received “Lawyer of the Year” honors in her practice area, distinctions based on peer recognition.

Reeves taught middle- and high-school English before earning her degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Before joining SKO, she clerked for the Honorable Eugene E. Siler Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Reeves is a member of Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, serving on the Vestry and as Senior Warden.

Sarah lives in Lexington with her husband, Adam, and their two children, Sloan and Jack.

Hunter Stout, CPA | Chief Financial Officer

In July 2023, Hunter Stout was named Keeneland’s Chief Financial Officer after having served as Senior Director of Finance.

Stout, who is from Louisville, has an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Kentucky. He spent 13 years at Dean Dorton Allen Ford prior to joining Keeneland in July 2019.

Stout is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants. He currently serves on the board of directors for Commerce Lexington, YMCA of Central Kentucky and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass. He previously was a member of the board of the Lexington Public Library. Hunter and his wife, Amy, have two children, Chloe and Jack.

Marc Therrien | Managing Director of Keeneland Hospitality

Chef Marc Therrien has more than 30 years of culinary and hospitality experience from coast to coast, spending most of his career in hotels and resorts. He became Keeneland’s Managing Director of Keeneland Hospitality in May 2019.

Prior to joining Keeneland Hospitality in 2016, Chef Marc spent eight years as executive chef at La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, known for its award-winning spa program. He also helped

build the Ayurvedic culinary program at the legendary resort’s Chopra Center. During his tenure, the resort received its first Silver Certificate for Green Seal, a sustainability certification for hotels and restaurants.

Chef Marc has helped develop Keeneland’s hospitality programs from culinary to beverage and concessions. He enjoys working with the community and developing young talent to be good leaders and better serve the industry of the future.

He is married to Tera Gehrig and has a daughter, Ariel Therrien.

Kari West | Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff Kari West, who joined Keeneland in 2012, works alongside all Keeneland departments and manages numerous projects. She oversees Facilities, Operations, Chaplaincy and Human Resources, and she works closely with Keeneland’s Board of Directors.

Raised in Nicholasville, Kentucky, West received a degree from Georgetown College and immediately after college went to work for the investment banking firm Ross, Sinclaire & Associates. She serves on the Board of Blue Grass Farms Charities.

Kari and her husband, Robb, have one daughter, Elyn.

Twelve enterprising horsemen under the leadership of Hal Price Headley formed the Keeneland Association in 1935 after Lexington’s Kentucky Association race track closed after nearly 100 years of operation.

Keeneland’s founders outlined their vision for a “model racetrack” to showcase “racing as it was meant to be” in a “prospectus” that eloquently detailed the development, financing and governance of the new association. Headley was installed as the first President of Keeneland.

Keeneland Race Course opened to accolades on Oct. 15, 1936. Headley remained President until 1951, when Guy Huguelet took the helm. Huguelet held that position until his death in 1955, whereupon, the Keeneland Association elected Louis Lee Haggin II as President.

At this point in Keeneland’s history, a distinction was made between being President of the Keeneland Race Course and being President of the Keeneland Association, with

History of Keeneland Presidents

the latter being the higher authority. Haggin had been President of the Race Course since 1940 before assuming the role as President of the Association in 1956. At 43, Haggin was the youngest person elected President.

In 1970, James E. “Ted” Bassett III became Association President after serving as Haggin’s assistant for several years. Bassett oversaw rapid changes in Keeneland’s sales as the 1980s economy boomed, prompting bidding wars into the millions of dollars for well-bred yearlings. Additionally, Bassett served as host to Queen Elizabeth II, who presented the trophy for the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup in 1984.

Bassett moved on to other roles, and William C. “Bill” Greely was promoted from Vice President to President in 1986. Greely had the distinction of introducing Sunday racing in 1991 and installing a public address system and race caller, Kurt Becker, in 1997.

Greely retired in early 2000, and George “Nick” Nicholson was elected President.

Nicholson shepherded Keeneland’s 75th Anniversary festivities along with the filming of the movies “Seabiscuit,” “Dreamer” and “Secretariat,” the installation of the allweather Polytrack surface and other capital improvements, including the construction of the new Library in 2002.

When Nicholson retired in 2012, Chief Financial Officer William “Bill” Thomason took the reins. Thomason’s achievements include the installation of an innovative dirt track, oversight of two successful runnings of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, development of a superb Keeneland Hospitality and Special Events program, establishment of safety and industry integrity initiatives along with leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In July 2020, Shannon Bishop Arvin, a member of Keeneland’s Board of Directors and Keeneland’s legal counsel, was named President-Elect. She became President and CEO on Jan. 1, 2021.

1933-34

The Kentucky Association track – the oldest race track in North America – holds its final season of racing in the spring of 1933, leaving Lexington without a Thoroughbred race track for the first time in 107 years. Members of the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred industry and others, led by Hal Price Headley and Maj. Louie A. Beard, begin meeting in 1934 with the goal of bringing racing back to Lexington.

This is the impetus for the Keeneland Association, which is founded during the dark years of the Great Depression to “create a model race track to perpetuate and improve the sport and to provide a course that is intended to serve as a symbol of the fine traditions of Thoroughbred racing.”

1935

April 17: Articles of incorporation are filed for the Keeneland Association. … Hal Price Headley is elected President. Other officers are Jack Young, First Vice President; A.B. Gay, Second Vice President; Brownell Combs, Secretary; and W.H. Courtney, Treasurer. Headley will serve as Keeneland Association President from 1935-1951.

Aug. 29: Keeneland Association purchases 147 1/2 acres of Keeneland Stud, Fayette County sportsman John Oliver “Jack” Keene’s property on Versailles Pike, for $130,000 in cash and $10,000 in preferred stock at par value. Property includes a 1 1/16-mile track and a nearly completed stone building adaptable for a Clubhouse and other uses.

1936

Oct. 11: More than 15,000 people attend an open house at Keeneland held primarily to introduce the public to the new totalizator, the first to be installed in Kentucky.

Oct. 14: An agreement is ratified with Turf Catering Company of Chicago for the operation of all concessions.

Oct. 15: Keeneland opens its inaugural race meet of nine days. The first day features seven races worth a total of $7,380. Royal Raiment

Milestones

wins the first race, a $1,000 allowance race for 2-year-old fillies going 6 furlongs. Finishing sixth is Wise Dart, trained by Racing Hall of Famer Woody Stephens. … In the fifth race, Racing Hall of Famer Myrtlewood wins the inaugural Keen Handicap, first of four stakes of the season. … Attendance is about 8,000 people, who wager $74,639.

Oct. 17: Racing Hall of Famer Eddie Arcaro rides for the only time during the inaugural season, finishing eighth aboard Greedy in the fourth race. … Myrtlewood wins the Ashland by 12 lengths.

Oct. 21: Memory Book wins the Breeders’ Stakes. The $5,000-added race is the richest event of the season.

Oct. 24: On closing day, White Tie wins the Lexington Stakes three days after winning a Keeneland allowance race. … In the next race, Myrtlewood defeats Miss Merriment in a match race in the final race of her career. … For the season, total attendance is 25,337 and total handle is $534,497.

Dec. 31: Keeneland’s financial statement for the year reveals a net loss of $3.47.

1937

April 17: Opening day of Keeneland’s first Spring Meet of 11 days. Four stakes will be run: Ben Ali, Blue Grass, Lafayette and Phoenix.

April 20: Keeneland stages a showing of seven outstanding, retired geldings: Cherry Pie, Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, Jolly Roger, Merrick (34 years old), Mike Hall, Osmand and Sarazen.

April 29: Fencing wins the first Blue Grass at Keeneland. The $5,000-added race was held at the Kentucky Association track in 1911-14 and 1919-26.

Dec. 31: Keeneland has a net profit of $8,286.41 for the year.

1938

April 25: Keeneland holds its first auction of Thoroughbreds in the Paddock. A total of 31 lots bring $24,885 for an average of $802.74. The $3,500 sale topper, purchased by E.E. Woodward, is Marmitina, a mare by Light Brigade with a suckling colt by *Cohort at her side.

April 28: Bull Lea, who will become a foundation sire for Calumet Farm, wins the second Blue Grass at Keeneland.

Oct. 22: Racing Hall of Famer Johnstown wins the first Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland and the next year wins the Kentucky Derby. (The Breeders’ Futurity was inaugurated at the Kentucky Association track in 1910.)

1939

April 1: A new 32-stall barn increases the track’s capacity to approximately 530 stalls.

Oct. 10: Racing Hall of Famer Challedon wins the Trantor in his lone Keeneland appearance and sets the 1 3/16-mile world record of 1:54 3/5.

Keeneland Association Director W. Arnold Hanger donates a 2,300-volume Library of rare books on Thoroughbreds to establish the Keeneland Library. Amelia King Buckley is Keeneland’s first librarian.

1940

March 12: Louis Lee Haggin II is elected Keeneland Race Course President, a position he holds until 1956.

April 11: Opening day of the Spring Meet during which Keeneland introduces the electric starting gate.

Oct. 19: Racing Hall of Famer Whirlaway wins the Breeders’ Futurity, one of six Keeneland races he will contest during his career.

1941

April 18: Racing Hall of Famer Alsab scores his second career win as a 2-year-old in his lone Keeneland appearance.

April 24: Closing day of the Spring Meet on which champion Our Boots defeats Whirlaway by 6 lengths in the $10,000-added Blue Grass. Whirlaway returns to win the Triple Crown. … Calumet Farm wins 12 races during the 11-day season, setting a record for the Spring Meet that will stand until 2013, when horses owned by Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey win 25 races during 16 days of racing.

Oct. 18: Racing Hall of Famer Devil Diver wins the Breeders’ Futurity over Myrtlewood’s daughter Miss Dogwood.

Dec. 4: Contributions made by the Keeneland Association Board of Directors include a grant to the University of Kentucky to supplement salaries of the UK president and other employees.

1942

April 9: Devil Diver defeats Whirlaway in the Phoenix (run in the Spring prior to 1989).

April 23: Shut Out wins the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby, becoming the first winner of the Blue Grass at Keeneland to win the Kentucky Derby.

World War II calls away many racing fans and track employees, including W.T. Bishop, Keeneland’s General Manager.

Oct. 13: Opening day of the 10-day Fall Meet during which Keeneland patrons buy $27,944 in war bonds and stamps to support war efforts. Keeneland turns in 37,140 pounds of scrap iron and donates $35,000 in profits from the season to the Lexington War Chest. The Thoroughbred Club of America auction at Keeneland raises $340,500 in bonds and $7,382 in direct contributions. … The Fall Meet is the last held at Keeneland until 1946.

1943

March 1: With Keeneland deemed a “suburban” plant and placed in the classification of tracks that are asked not to operate during World War II because of shortages in rubber, the Keeneland Association leases the Churchill Downs facilities and holds three Spring Meets there from 1943-1945. No Fall Meets are held.

April 21: Ocean Wave wins the Blue Grass held at Churchill Downs.

May 27: J.O. “Jack” Keene dies of a heart attack at the Fair Grounds in Detroit.

Aug. 9-11: The first yearling sale at Keeneland is conducted by Fasig-Tipton under a tent in the Paddock. A total of 312 horses sell for $929,850, an average of $2,979. The leading buyer is William Helis of New Orleans, who purchases 11 yearlings for $143,200. Fred W. Hooper pays $10,200 for the yearling Hoop, Jr., who will win the Kentucky Derby two years later.

Nov. 13: The Breeders’ Sales Company, a cooperative association for the purpose of marketing Thoroughbreds, is organized.

Milestones

1944

April 26: Skytracer wins the Blue Grass held at Churchill Downs.

June 13: Keeneland Association leases grounds and facilities to the Breeders’ Sales Company. A sales arena, built in 1929, is dismantled and moved to Keeneland from its Paris Pike location.

July 31-Aug. 3: The Breeders’ Sales Company conducts its first summer yearling sale (later called the July Selected Yearling Sale), with 437 horses sold for $2,286,000, establishing a record total for a yearling sale.

Dec. 1: The Keeneland Foundation is organized and incorporated for the purpose of promoting scientific research. The Foundation receives an initial grant of $47,500 from the Keeneland Association.

1945

June 2: Darby Dieppe wins the Blue Grass held at Churchill Downs.

July: Jet Pilot, who will win the 1947 Kentucky Derby, sells for $41,000 as a yearling at the July Sale.

1946

April 11: With World War II over, racing returns to Keeneland for an 11-day Spring season that features photo-finish equipment for the first time. Spring records are set for attendance (79,521) and mutuel handle ($3,369,253).

Oct. 15-26: Records for the Fall Meet are broken, with 55,752 in attendance and $2,482,679 in handle.

1947

April: Racing Hall of Famer Bewitch begins her career at Keeneland, winning on April 10 and April 17 to launch a string of nine consecutive wins.

June 25: The Keeneland Foundation dedicates and “permanently loans” an electron

microscope to the University of Kentucky for research. “The microscope, latest development in its field, and the only one in Kentucky, was bought for use by qualified persons in the State for bacteriological and other research,” reports the June 28 issue of The Blood-Horse

Oct. 14-25: The 10-day Fall Meet sets records, with 65,217 in total attendance and $2,829,700 in handle.

1948

April 8: Opening day of the 11-day Spring Meet during which an afternoon windstorm causes considerable damage in Central Kentucky. At Keeneland, the storm leads to the death of a groom, injures three others and heavily damages two barns.

April 10: Racing Hall of Famer Bewitch wins the Ashland by a nose.

Oct. 14: Olympia becomes the first horse flown to Keeneland to race, arriving at Lexington’s Blue Grass Field. He will win the Breeders’ Futurity nine days later.

Keeneland purchases additional land to accommodate a 7-furlong chute, an extension to the Headley Course and additional parking.

1949

April 14: The 11-day Spring Meet opens with a new inside aluminum rail, which replaces the conventional wooden rail. The new rail, which cost approximately $5,000, is the first of its kind at an American race track.

1950

April 13: Opening day of the 11-day Spring Meet, which features a new box seat area. A concrete, steel and aluminum structure replaces the wooden structure.

1951

Jan. 8: Guy Huguelet succeeds Charter President and Director Hal Price Headley as President of the Keeneland Association, a position he will hold through 1955.

April 14: Clarence Hartwick wins the Ashland with Sickle’s Image, a filly by Sickletoy he bred, owns and trains.

April 26: For the only time, the Blue Grass is run in two divisions. Mameluke wins the first; Ruhe takes the second.

July: Dark Star, who will upset Native Dancer in the 1953 Kentucky Derby, sells for $6,500 at the July Yearling Sale.

1952

April 12: Racing Hall of Famer Real Delight wins the second division of the Ashland.

April 24: Closing day of the 11-day Spring Meet during which mutuel handle tops $4 million for the first time.

July: Determine, who will win the 1954 Kentucky Derby, sells for $12,000 at the July Yearling Sale. Also selling are the 1954 Preakness winner, Hasty Road, and the Belmont winner, High Gun.

Oct. 14-25: During the 10-day Fall Meet, Keeneland inaugurates the Milestone Trophy Program to recognize owners depending on the number of stakes wins they reach (page 218). … The season sets a handle record when it tops $3 million.

Oct. 18: Champion Sweet Patootie wins the inaugural Alcibiades.

1953

April 11: Hill Gail is second in the Phoenix and returns to win the Kentucky Derby.

After the Spring Meet, work begins to enlarge the Grandstand. Completed in time for the Fall season are 1,542 seats, which increase the structure’s capacity -- including boxes -- to 3,849. A new feature of the Grandstand is a dining room with a capacity of 384. … The finish line is moved 184 feet closer to the first turn, which lengthens the stretch run from 990 feet to 1,174 feet. The Headley Course, formerly 40 feet shorter than a half-mile, is increased to 4 furlongs and 152 feet. The new finish line makes possible the Beard Course (named for Maj. Louie A. Beard) of 7 furlongs and 184 feet.

Nov. 5: The Keeneland Foundation makes a $200,000 grant to the University of Kentucky, making possible a dormitory for women named Keeneland Hall.

1954

April 8: The 11-day Spring Meet opens, and a film patrol system is used for the first time.

April 13: Maj. Louie A. Beard, a key member of the group that founded Keeneland, dies.

Milestones

May 14: Work begins on a new 5-furlong training track and will continue for more than a year.

July 26-28: At the July Yearling Sale, the *Nasrullah colt Nalur sells for an American record $86,000.

Nov. 1-3: Masaka, a mare from the Aga Khan consignment, brings a record $105,000 from John S. Phipps at the November Sale.

1955

April 16: Racing Hall of Famer Steve Brooks becomes the first jockey to win five Keeneland races on a single card. He scores five wins, including four in a row, from eight mounts.

April 29: Elizabeth “Pansy” Ireland Poe is elected to the Keeneland Association’s Board of Directors, becoming the first woman to hold such a position for Keeneland.

September: Keeneland’s 5-furlong training track opens.

Keeneland offers $10,000 to furnish Salk antipolio vaccine for Fayette County preschoolaged children whose families cannot afford to pay to have their children inoculated.

1956

Jan. 6: At the January Sale, Stavros Niarchos buys Segula, dam of 1955 Horse of the Year Nashua, for $126,000, a record price for a broodmare sold at public auction.

Jan. 9: Duval A. Headley is elected Keeneland Race Course President.

April 27: Louis Lee Haggin II is elected Keeneland Association President, a position he holds until 1970.

Between the Spring and Fall Meets, the main track is overhauled at a cost of $150,000. The project is designed to improve surface and subsurface drainage.

Oct. 18: Racing Hall of Famer Nashua, with Eddie Arcaro aboard, makes his final public appearance under saddle at Keeneland prior to entering stud at Spendthrift Farm.

Oct. 19: Champion Doubledogdare wins the inaugural Spinster for one of her six career wins at Keeneland. Others include the 1955 Alcibiades and ‘56 Ashland.

1957

April 25: Racing Hall of Famer Round Table, who won the Breeders’ Futurity the previous October, wins the Blue Grass. He will be undefeated in five career races at Keeneland.

Oct. 8-24: Total mutual handle for the 13-day Fall Meet exceeds $4 million for the first time. … The Breeders’ Sales Company Fall sale is held Oct. 14-18 and Oct. 21-22.

1958

April 10: Opening day of the Spring Meet, during which Keeneland offers Daily Double wagering for the first time.

April 18: Racing Hall of Famer Tim Tam wins an allowance race during a six-race winning streak that includes the Kentucky Derby.

July: Venetian Way, who will win the 1960 Kentucky Derby, sells for $10,500 at the July Yearling Sale.

Sept. 23: Keeneland conducts an orientation about Thoroughbred racing for 13 governors attending the Southern Governor’s Conference in Lexington.

Oct. 11-25: During the Fall Meet, 89,023 patrons wager a record $5,238,579. The Fall Meet includes three Saturday race days for the first time.

Oct. 11: Opening day of the 11-day Fall Meet during which patrons first were able to buy Maker’s Mark bourbon. Keeneland caterer Turf Catering, under its Kentucky liquor license, purchased the first case of Maker’s Mark.

1959

April 29: *Tomy Lee wins the Blue Grass and gives jockey Bill Shoemaker the first of his record six victories in the race. They return to win the Kentucky Derby.

Oct. 10: Opening day of the 13-day Fall Meet on which Hal Price Headley wins his 100th race at Keeneland with Rash Statement in the Alcibiades. … Allan “Doc” Lavin succeeds the late Fred Burton as Racing Secretary and Handicapper.

1960

Oct. 14: Racing Hall of Famer Silver Spoon makes the final start of her career in a Keeneland allowance race, finishing fifth.

Oct. 21: Keeneland celebrates its 25th anniversary with a silver anniversary dinner and honors its all-time leading owner, trainer and jockey by wins. They are owner Hal Price Headley (104 wins), trainer V.R. Wright (87 wins) and jockey Steve Brooks (204 wins).

1961

April 8-27: The 14-day Spring Meet brings the introduction of the alphanumeric message board located at ground level in front of the infield tote board.

July: At the July Sale, the Swaps colt Swapson becomes the first yearling in North America to

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sell for more than six figures when he is sold for $130,000 to John M. Olin.

Oct. 7: Opening day of the 11-day Fall Meet during which Keeneland becomes the first American Thoroughbred track to use the Visumatic Timer, which posts various fractions and final times on the tote board.

Oct. 19: Racing Hall of Famer Bowl of Flowers wins the Spinster.

1962

January: The January Horses of All Ages Sale resumes after not being held in 1958-1961 and posts gross sales of $1,022,200, marking the first time total sales exceed $1 million.

March 22: Hal Price Headley dies of a heart attack at Keeneland.

April 26: Champion Decidedly finishes second to Ridan in the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby.

July: The Keeneland Association, Keeneland Race Course and the Breeders’ Sales Company merge into a single corporate enterprise. Keeneland Association is the operating company with an auction division headed by General Manager William S. Evans and Director of Sales George Swinebroad; a racing division led by General Manager W.T. Bishop; and a publicity and public relations division under J.B. Faulconer.

1963

April 6-25: The 13-day Spring Meet marks the return of 1 1/16-mile races, which have not been run at Keeneland since the finish line was relocated in the fall of 1953. An alternate finish line is installed at the sixteenth pole.

April 25: Champion Chateaugay wins the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby.

Oct. 5: The 11-day Fall Meet opens with the completion of a major construction project that links the Grandstand and Clubhouse.

For the first time, Keeneland makes white parasols available to racegoers sitting in box seats to shield them from the afternoon sun.

Oct. 10: Champion Lamb Chop sets the 1:24 3/5 track record for the Beard Course of 7 furlongs and 184 feet. She wins the Spinster on Oct. 17.

1964

April 23: Racing Hall of Famer Northern Dancer wins the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby. He later will be considered the greatest Thoroughbred sire of the late 20th century, his reign including 12 consecutive titles as the July Yearling Sale’s leading sire by average price.

July: Mrs. Velma Morrison of Boise, Idaho, pays a record $170,000 for the Bold Ruler yearling colt One Bold Bid during the July Sale.

The Headley Course chute is extended from 4 furlongs, 152 feet to 4 1/2 furlongs.

1965

April 25: Racing Hall of Famer Kelso is at Keeneland as part of his tour of American tracks. Proceeds from the tour are used for equine research.

July: First $5 million sales plateau is reached at the July Yearling Sale, with a record $17,973 average. Foreign purchases at all Keeneland sales during the year surpass the million-dollar mark ($1,019,725) for the first time.

Oct. 14: Racing Hall of Famer Affectionately wins an allowance race in her lone Keeneland appearance.

Oct. 16: Horse of the Year Moccasin wins the Alcibiades by 15 lengths.

1966

July: On behalf of owner Frank McMahon, trainer Johnny Longden pays a record $200,000 for the Bold Ruler colt Bold Discovery at the July Yearling Sale.

Oct. 27: Champion Open Fire wins the Spinster in the final race of her career and for her second consecutive win during the 18-day Fall Meet.

December: Keeneland announces plans to build a new sales arena, replacing the 1929 structure that was moved to Keeneland from its Paris Pike location in 1944.

1967

April 8-27: During the Spring Meet, 20 closed-circuit TV monitors, without audio, are available in the Grandstand and Clubhouse.

April 27: Proud Clarion runs second to Diplomat Way in the Blue Grass and goes on to win the Kentucky Derby.

July: Majestic Prince, the 1969 Kentucky Derby winner, sells for a record $250,000 to Frank McMahon at the July Sale.

1968

January: James E. “Ted” Bassett III becomes the assistant to President Louis Lee Haggin II.

April 25: Champion Forward Pass wins the Blue Grass and next is awarded victory in the Kentucky Derby upon the disqualification of Dancer’s Image.

May 29: Sir Ivor, a graduate of Keeneland’s 1966 July Yearling Sale, wins the Epsom Derby in England and helps to launch international interest in Keeneland sales. Owner Raymond Guest paid $42,000 for the Sir Gaylord colt, who was consigned by Mill Ridge Farm.

July: Wendell P. Rosso pays a world-record $405,000 for the Sea-Bird filly Reine Enchanteur during the July Yearling Sale.

September: Dust Commander, the 1970 Blue Grass and Kentucky Derby winner, sells for $6,500 at the September Yearling Sale.

Oct. 5-26: During the 19-day Fall Meet, horses owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Roberts win 12 races, a record until equaled during the 17-day Fall season in 2012 by Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey. Claiborne Farm becomes the first recipient of a gold pitcher to signify 12 stakes victories at Keeneland.

1969

April 24: Racing Hall of Famer Arts and Letters wins the Blue Grass.

April 30: Keeneland hosts the Republican Governor’s Conference, which is chaired by California Gov. Ronald Reagan.

July: A new $700,000 Sales Pavilion, with 650 theater-type seats, debuts at the July Yearling Sale. The sale grosses a record $7,684,000.

September: Champion Canonero II, who will win the 1971 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, sells for $1,200 at the September Yearling Sale.

Oct. 24: Racing Hall of Famer Gallant Bloom wins the Spinster.

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November: The November Breeding Stock Sale grosses $11,088,700, marking the first time total sales at the auction eclipse $10 million.

1970

April: Louis Lee Haggin II is named Chairman of the Board and James E. “Ted” Bassett III becomes President of the Association.

July: Majestic Prince’s world-record price from 1967 is broken when Frank McMahon pays $510,000 for his full brother, English champion Crowned Prince, at the July Yearling Sale.

1971

March 7: Charles W. Engelhard, the leading buyer at the July Sale from 1966-1970, dies.

April 22: Wagering at Keeneland on a single day exceeds $1 million for the first time when $1,052,866 is wagered on the card, which includes the Blue Grass won by Impetuosity.

July: A. I. “Butch” Savin pays the sale-topping price of $220,000 for Mr. Prospector at the July Yearling Sale.

Oct. 13: Champion Chou Croute scores the first of three victories during the Fall Meet when she wins an allowance race. She wins another allowance race on Oct. 22 and the Spinster on Oct. 29.

1972

Keeneland raises the purse of the Blue Grass from $25,000-added to $40,000-added. There are a record 139 nominations for the race.

April 14: Kaye Bell becomes the first female rider to win a race at Keeneland when she rides 17-1 longshot Nashota to win the fourth race. Bell uses Keeneland’s first aid room as her dressing room.

April 27: Racing Hall of Famer Riva Ridge wins the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby.

Oct. 27: Champion Numbered Account defeats champion Chou Croute in the Spinster.

1973

January: Howard Battle is named racing secretary and handicapper, succeeding “Doc” Lavin.

April 26: Racing Hall of Famer Forego finishes fifth behind winner My Gallant in the $50,000-added Blue Grass in his lone Keeneland appearance.

July: After only two bids at the July Yearling Sale – an opening bid of $500,000 and a winning bid of $600,000 – champion Wajima sells for a world record to James A. Scully, who will race him with Zenya Yoshida, Dr. James Welch and Harold Snyder. … Wajima will make one start at Keeneland, finishing fourth in the 1974 Breeders’ Futurity. … Wajima is consigned by Claiborne Farm, which is selling yearlings at Keeneland for the first time since 1952. Claiborne sets a single-consignor record at the July Sale with 18 yearlings selling for $2,364,000.

1974

Keeneland’s parking lot is expanded, food service stations are added and portions of the Grandstand and Clubhouse are renovated.

July: Kentucky Gold, a full brother to Mr. Prospector, breaks Wajima’s record price when he brings $625,000 at the July Yearling Sale. The buyer is Wallace A. Gilroy.

1975

April 24: ABC-TV broadcasts the Blue Grass nationally.

May 10: Longtime auctioneer George Swinebroad dies. Tom Caldwell is named Director of Auctions.

July: Windfields Farm, home of Northern Dancer, has a consignment at the July Yearling Sale for the first time. … Franklin Groves buys Elegant Prince for a record $715,000.

Oct. 4: Keeneland runs its first $100,000 race, the $130,725 Breeders’ Futurity, won by Louis Lee Haggin II’s Harbor Springs.

Oct. 25: Racing Hall of Famer Susan’s Girl wins the Spinster for her second consecutive win of the Fall Meet.

1976

January: The January Horses of All Ages Sale includes the $1,100 sale of a yearling later named John Henry, the Racing Hall of Famer who will bring $2,200 at a Keeneland sale the following year.

April 23: The Blue Grass purse is doubled and is run as a $100,000-added race. The winner is heavily favored Honest Pleasure, who creates a minus win pool of $41,876.20.

May: Construction begins on major Grandstand renovations to be completed in time for the Fall Meet. A new section of concrete and steel replaces the historic wooden Grandstand that had stood since the track’s inaugural Meet.

July 20: A Thoroughbred yearling becomes the first horse to bring $1 million at public auction when Canadian Bound, a colt by Secretariat, sells for $1.5 million at the July Sale. Blue Meadows Farm, agent (Ted Burnett, John Sikura and partners) is the buyer. A record 1,009 horses are cataloged for the sale.

Oct. 26: Racing Hall of Famer Foolish Pleasure parades on the track before being retired to Greentree Stud.

1977

April 9: The 15-day Spring Meet debuts a new press box, jockeys’ room, Grandstand and Clubhouse entrance, and the Lexington Room.

July: European buyers push July Yearling Sale receipts to a world-record $27.6 million with Secretariat’s progeny bringing the highest average price for the second consecutive July Sale.

September: Racing Hall of Famer Spectacular Bid sells for $37,000 at the September Yearling Sale.

December: The Minstrel, sold at the 1975 July Yearling Sale for $200,000, is named England’s Horse of the Year.

1978

April 11: John Henry finishes fourth in an allowance race in his lone Keeneland racing appearance.

April 27: Racing Hall of Famer Alydar wins the Blue Grass by a record 13 lengths with Lucille Parker Markey and Gene Markey from owner Calumet Farm in attendance.

July: French champion Nureyev brings the July Yearling Sale-topping price of $1.3 million from BBA (London). … For the first time, average price for the sale exceeds six figures when it reaches $121,654.

Oct. 13: Racing Hall of Famer Forego, with Eddie Delahoussaye aboard, makes his final public appearance between the fifth and sixth races before being retired to John Ward’s nearby farm on Rice Road. (Ward’s uncle Sherrill Ward trained the gelding.) Forego, who trained at Keeneland as a yearling, first

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makes a brief appearance in the Paddock during the fifth race. In 1981, he moved to the Kentucky Horse Park.

Oct. 17: In his final public appearance before entering stud at Spendthrift Farm, J. O. Tobin, who will be named the year’s champion sprinter, parades before fans between the fifth and sixth races with 18-year-old Steve Cauthen aboard.

A $1.5 million building program begins, featuring five 32-stall barns. A new infield tote board is unveiled for the Fall Meet.

1979

Two new “Keeneland” hedges, flanking the infield tote board, are planted.

April 6: Opening day of the 15-day Spring Meet in which Keeneland becomes the first Kentucky track and the fourth track in the country to use the AmTote 300 Series Totalisator System, known as ABC (All Betting and Cashing) Mutuels. The tote system allows bettors to buy and cash tickets in any amount and type at any window.

April 26: Spectacular Bid wins the Blue Grass and pays $2.10 to win, the smallest mutuel payoff for a $2 win ticket in track history. He next wins the Kentucky Derby.

July: Hoist the King, by Hoist the Flag, becomes the highest-priced yearling ever sold when he brings $1.6 million at the July Yearling Sale from buyer Kazuo Nakamura. … Selling for $1 million is the Northern Dancer colt Storm Bird, a champion in England and Ireland and sire of Storm Cat.

1980

Early in the year, work begins at the rear of the Sales Pavilion on an enclosed walking ring where buyers can inspect horses immediately before they enter the auction ring. The 6,400-square-foot octagonal addition has a stone facade and floor-length windows.

April 7: Jockey Randy Romero wins six races.

April 18: Keeneland Board Chairman Louis Lee Haggin II dies.

July: BBA (England), agent for Stavros Niarchos, pays a world-record $1.7 million for the Lyphard colt Lichine at the July Yearling Sale.

Oct. 16: Racing Hall of Famer Bold ‘n Determined scores the first of her three Keeneland victories in an allowance race. Nine days later, she wins the Spinster. The following April, she wins the Bewitch.

November: Gross sales at the November Breeding Stock Sale reach $101,388,300, marking the first time total sales exceed $100 million.

Dec. 1: William S. Evans retires as Keeneland’s Director of Sales.

1981

Keeneland purchases property on Rice Road and builds the Keeneland Training Center, which initially has three barns. The area is needed to accommodate trainers who stable year-round. Expansion of Keeneland sales means every stall in the main barn area is needed at certain times of the year. The nine barn later will be home to horses competing in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

April 23: Proud Appeal wins the Blue Grass, whose purse is increased to $150,000-added.

July: BBA (Ireland), agent for Robert Sangster, smashes the mark from the previous July Yearling Sale when he pays $3.5 million for Ballydoyle, a full brother to champions Storm Bird and Northernette.

1982

A new Clubhouse dining room seating 170 people is built overlooking the Walking Ring.

Construction of a 4,000-square-foot addition to the Sales Pavilion is underway. Featuring local stone with an exposed wood ceiling, the addition contains a large bar, hot and cold food service counter, a lounge area separated from the room by planters and 18 additional telephones.

April 22: Gato del Sol finishes second behind Linkage in the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby.

May: W.B. Rogers Beasley is named Director of Sales, succeeding William S. Evans, who retired in December 1980.

June 2: Keeneland sale graduates Golden Fleece and Touching Wood run first and second, respectively, in the Epsom Derby.

July: Robert Sangster sets another record at the July Yearling Sale when he pays $4.25 million for a Nijinsky II colt later named Empire Glory. … For the first time, the July Sale grosses more than $100 million.

Oct. 30: Champion Track Robbery wins the Spinster by 9 lengths.

1983

Jan. 12: Longtime Keeneland track superintendent Hobert Burton dies.

April 13: Racing Hall of Famer Princess Rooney wins an allowance race and 10 days later wins the Ashland. In Oct. 1984, she takes an allowance race and the Spinster during a five-race win streak that culminates in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Following the Spring Meet, Keeneland’s training track is renovated. The Fontana Safety Rail is added to the main track, replacing the inside aluminum rail installed prior to the 1949 Spring Meet.

July: Snaafi Dancer becomes the world’s first eight-figure Thoroughbred sale yearling when Aston Upthorpe Stud (Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum) purchases the Northern Dancer colt for $10.2 million at the July Yearling Sale. Keeneland’s bid board does not have enough figures to accommodate the price.

Oct. 8-29: Improvements made for the 16-day Fall Meet include two new Clubhouse ticket booths, a new food service stand and bar on the ground floor of the Clubhouse, and additional hard-surface parking.

Oct. 8: Champion Swale wins the Breeders’ Futurity. The following year, he is second in the Lexington at Keeneland and wins the Kentucky Derby and Belmont.

1984

The first phase of a $3-million construction project is completed before the Spring Meet when 16 new saddling stalls are built in the Paddock during the winter and preliminary work is started on a 40,000-square-foot addition to the rear of the Grandstand. Half of the old saddling stalls are demolished following the 1983 Fall Meet, and new stalls (with a stone exterior and copper roof) are constructed in a semicircle at the west end of the Paddock. The balance of the old stalls and adjoining concession stand are torn down after the Spring Meet. Completed for the Fall Meet, the Grandstand addition enables patrons to view the Paddock from three levels. Two elevators, located at each end of the addition, connect all floors, and the second and third levels are both enclosed.

July: A July Yearling Sale record number of yearlings – 33 – bring $1 million or more.

Oct. 11: Queen Elizabeth II visits Keeneland for the first Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, won by Sintra. To accommodate the queen, per the wishes of her security team, Keeneland

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built a Winner’s Circle in which she makes the trophy presentation. During her visit, the queen watches a mock sale of a Thoroughbred in the Sales Pavilion and meets members of the jockey colony.

Keeneland pledges $1 million to build the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center at the University of Kentucky.

1985

A new Grandstand entrance adjacent to the Paddock and Walking Ring is ready for the Spring Meet. Keeneland begins a $2.7-million construction project to be completed in early 1986, the year the track celebrates its 50th anniversary. The project calls for a 12,000-square-foot addition to Keeneland’s administration building; new Jockeys Quarters and Grandstand entrance; more space for racing and sales personnel; and allows for the expansion of the Library and Clubhouse dining facilities. The new Jockeys Quarters are 1,500-squarefeet larger than the former quarters and include separate facilities for female jockeys. A secondfloor addition provides more office space.

July: A Nijinsky II half-brother to Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew sells for $13.1 million, a world-record price for a yearling, at the July Yearling Sale. Warner L. Jones Jr. consigns the colt, later named Seattle Dancer, who is purchased by BBA (England), agent for Robert Sangster. … Racing Hall of Famer Alysheba sells for $500,000.

Oct. 5: The 16-day Fall Meet opens, and Ogama Bay wins the first race on Keeneland’s new turf course. Keeneland offers exacta wagering for the first time.

Oct. 19: Champion Tasso wins the Breeders’ Futurity and returns to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

Nov. 12: Two days after Estrapade wins the Yellow Ribbon Invitational (G1) at Santa Anita, Allen Paulson pays $4.5 million for her during the November Breeding Stock Sale. The amount is a world record for a horse in training.

1986

March: James E. “Ted” Bassett III is elevated from President to Chairman of the Board. William C. “Bill” Greely is promoted from Vice President to President.

An addition to the Lexington Room increases its capacity from 250 to almost 500.

April 5: John Henry, who earned $6,591,860, is paraded before fans at Keeneland. Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins presents a silver julep cup to his owners, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rubin.

July: Racing Hall of Famer Winning Colors sells for $575,000 at the July Yearling Sale. In 1988, she becomes the third filly to win the Kentucky Derby. She returns to Keeneland in 1988 and is fourth in the Spinster on Oct. 15.

Oct. 15: To commemorate its 50th anniversary on the same day on which it opened in 1936, Keeneland runs the $50,000 Keeneland Gold Cup, a 1 1/16-mile race on turf for 2-year-olds. The winner is Saron Stable’s Golden Dodger, ridden by Pat Day for trainer J. Bert Sonnier.

1987

Feb. 26: Duval A. Headley, former President of Keeneland Race Course, dies.

April 14: Racing Hall of Famer Manila wins the Elkhorn for his second career win at Keeneland.

April 23: Alysheba is disqualified from first to third in the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

July: Racing Hall of Famer Sunday Silence is offered at the July Yearling Sale.

1988

Jan. 9-10: The dispersal of Nelson Bunker Hunt during the January Horses of All Ages Sale sells 580 horses for a record $46,912,800.

Oct. 8: Opening day of the 16-day Fall Meet that introduces Pick 6 wagering. … Rip Dabbs wins the fourth race and pays a record $255.40. … Keeneland begins sending its simulcast signal to Turfway Park, Ellis Park and Bluegrass Downs, allowing patrons at those tracks to wager on Keeneland’s races.

Nov. 30: Keeneland begins offering simulcasting in the Sales Pavilion with the opening of Turfway’s fall meet.

1989

April 7-28: A stakes race is run each day during the 16-day Spring Meet.

April 15: The date of the Blue Grass, previously run nine days before the Kentucky Derby, is moved to three weeks before the Run for the Roses.

April 16: Champion Risen Star, who sold for $210,000 at the 1986 July Yearling Sale, wins the Lexington.

April 28: Racing Hall of Famer Julie Krone becomes the first female jockey to win a Keeneland stakes when she rides Gaily Gaily to win the Bewitch.

Racing Hall of Famer Don Brumfield retires after the Spring Meet as Keeneland’s all-time leading jockey with 716 wins and 32 stakes victories.

Oct. 7-28: Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas wins a Fall Meet record 22 races.

Oct. 14: Racing Hall of Famer Bayakoa (ARG) wins the Spinster by 11½ lengths in her first of two consecutive victories in the race.

Nov. 4: Simulcasting moves from the Sales Pavilion to the Grandstand with the combination Breeders’ Cup-Churchill Downs program.

Nov. 6: Eugene V. Klein’s dispersal at the November Breeding Stock Sale includes three Breeders’ Cup winners – Racing Hall of Famers Lady’s Secret and Open Mind along with Is It True – among 114 horses that sell for $29,623,000. Open Mind sells for $4.6 million, a Keeneland record for a horse in training. Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Winning Colors brings $4.1 million. Lady’s Secret sells for $3.8 million. Is It True sells for $1 million.

1990

Horses owned by Calumet Farm are offered in a two-part dispersal at the January and November Sales. The horses are walked to Keeneland from the neighboring farm.

April 7: Racing Hall of Famer Randy Romero rides six winners from nine mounts. He scores a Spring Meet record 32 wins during the 15day season.

April 14: Champion Unbridled is third in the Blue Grass and goes on to win the Kentucky Derby.

April 18: Jockey Craig Perret equals Romero’s feat from 11 days earlier when he wins six races,

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this time from seven mounts. … Racing Hall of Famer Safely Kept wins the Thoroughbred Club of America in her lone Keeneland appearance.

April 21: Racing Hall of Famer Go for Wand wins the Ashland 11 days after taking the Beaumont. … Keeneland offers its first simulcast race during a live card, the Arkansas Derby (G2).

July: Racing Hall of Famer A.P. Indy sells as a yearling for $2.9 million at the July Yearling Sale.

Keeneland adds 450 acres with the purchase of adjoining Keene, Murty and Warrenton farms.

The John Franks dispersal of 659 horses grosses $9,539,100 in the September, November and January (1991) sales.

1991

April 2: Keeneland opens a new gift shop, called the Paddock Shop, on the ground floor adjacent to the Walking Ring.

April 5: Opening day of 16-day Spring Meet, which features Sunday racing for the first time. … A fourth-floor expansion, called the biggest construction project in Keeneland history, is complete. It includes 22 corporate boxes and the Phoenix Room, which has space for 500 people and provides a 220-foot dining area overlooking the walking ring. Keeneland adds the Lafayette Room (seating for 65) on the fourth floor.

April 13: Strike the Gold wins the Blue Grass and returns to win the Kentucky Derby.

Oct. 5-26: During the 19-day Fall Meet, Racing Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day wins a record 45 races.

1992

April 11: The purse of the Blue Grass, won by Pistols and Roses, is increased from $350,000-added to $500,000 guaranteed.

Oct. 10: Opening day of the 16-day Fall Meet during which Keeneland conducts quinella betting for the first time.

Oct. 24: Julie Krone becomes the first female jockey to win a Grade 1 race at Keeneland when she rides Captive Miss to win the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup.

November: As a weanling, Racing Hall of Famer Serena’s Song sells for $42,000 at the November Breeding Stock Sale. She sells for $150,000 at the 1993 July Yearling Sale. … Paul Mellon’s Rokeby Stables dispersal at

the November Sale brings $6,294,600 for 32 horses.

1993

April 13-14: Keeneland inaugurates its April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. A total of 108 horses sell for $6,817,500, averaging $63,125, the highest average of any 2-year-old sale in North America that year.

April 10: Sea Hero runs fourth in the Blue Grass and next wins the Kentucky Derby.

For the first time, Keeneland is a springboard to across-the-board success in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. The first three finishers in the Derby (Sea Hero, Prairie Bayou and Wild Gale) and Preakness (Prairie Bayou, Cherokee Run and El Bakan) raced at the Spring Meet. Kissin Kris (who was stabled and trained at Keeneland for much of the Spring Meet) and Wild Gale (who ran in the Lexington) were second and third, respectively, in the Belmont.

Oct. 17: Racing Hall of Famer Paseana (ARG) wins the Spinster.

1994

April 16: Racing Hall of Famer Holy Bull wins the Blue Grass.

Aug. 20: Keeneland begins full-card simulcasting in the Grandstand.

April 23: Racing Hall of Famer Inside Information wins the Ashland. At Keeneland in 1995, she will win an allowance on April 26 and the Spinster on Oct. 8 before taking the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

September: Total sales from the September Yearling Sale exceeds $100 million for the first time when they reach $104,709,900. The sale includes two dispersals: Loblolly Stable ($5.26 million) and Mrs. John Hay Whitney ($4,115,000).

1995

April 9: Racing Hall of Famer Bill Mott becomes the first trainer in history to saddle four winners on a Keeneland card.

April 14: First time Keeneland races on Good Friday.

April 15: Champion Thunder Gulch is fourth in the Blue Grass and next wins the Kentucky Derby. Thunder Gulch sold twice at Keeneland, for $40,000 at the 1993 July Yearling Sale and $120,000 at the 1994 April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

Oct. 7: Opening day of the 16-day Fall Meet, which marks the debut of a new entrance at

the intersection of Versailles Road and Man o’ War Boulevard.

1996

Toyota becomes the sponsor of the Blue Grass and the purse increases to $700,000 guaranteed. The Ashland Stakes purse is increased to $500,000-added.

April 13: The Blue Grass is won by Racing Hall of Famer Skip Away, whose time of 1:47 1/5 for 1 1/8 miles remains a stakes record.

July: Keeneland opens on-site Repository of X-rays for horses in the July Yearling Sale.

September: Champion Real Quiet, who will win the 1998 Kentucky Derby, sells for $17,000 at the September Yearling Sale.

1997

April 4: The 16-day Spring Meet opens with a public address system and Keeneland’s first announcer, Kurt Becker.

Maker’s Mark becomes sponsor of the Maker’s Mark Mile and begins a tradition of producing limited-edition bottles that go on sale opening day of the Spring Meet with proceeds earmarked for charity.

April 5-25: Total wagering tops $100 million for the first time during the 16-day Spring Meet.

April 25: Horse of the Year Favorite Trick wins his career debut.

May: For the first time, Keeneland offers drivethrough wagering on the Kentucky Derby simulcast.

Oct. 18: Former President George Bush presents the trophy after the Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity to Joseph LaCombe, owner of winner Favorite Trick. This marks the first time a former U.S. President makes a trophy presentation at Keeneland.

November: Gross sales at the November Breeding Stock Sale reach $213 million, marking the first time total sales exceed $200 million.

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Construction of the Keeneland Entertainment Center is completed on the adjoining Keene Farm.

1998

April 24: H.R.H. The Princess Royal, Princess Anne of England attends closing day of the 15-day Spring Meet to present the trophy in the inaugural running of the Royal Chase for the Sport of Kings, the first steeplechase race at Keeneland. Renowned British mystery writer Dick Francis also attends.

July 21: As a yearling, Fusaichi Pegasus tops the July Yearling Sale at $4 million and two years later will win the Kentucky Derby.

Oct. 11: Racing Hall of Famer Silverbulletday wins the Alcibiades. She will win the Ashland on April 3, 1999.

Oct. 10-31: A $5.8 million renovation of the west end of the Grandstand is completed in time for the 16-day Fall Meet. On the inside, the first and second floors are enclosed, creating an additional 15,200 square feet of climatecontrolled space. Storage space on the second floor is converted to public space with mutuel windows, concessions and restrooms – all accessible via a new escalator. The Sports Bar doubles in size and the Paddock Shop opens a satellite location. Outside, a facade of Kentucky River stone defines the exterior of the west end and expanded balconies offer patrons a view of the newly landscaped area below.

1999

April 10: Menifee wins the Toyota Blue Grass, now worth $750,000.

April 18: Horse of the Year Charismatic wins the Lexington in stakes-record time of 1:41 for 1 1/16 miles and returns to win the Kentucky Derby.

Sept. 7: Keeneland President William C. “Bill” Greely announces he will retire in February 2000.

September: The highest gross ever for a yearling sale, $233,020,800, is reached during the September Yearling Sale, breaking the previous record set at the 1984 July Sale. This is the first time the September Sale total exceeds $200 million.

Oct. 16: Racing Hall of Famer Silver Charm parades at Keeneland on Three Chimneys Spinster Day. … The national unveiling of the Secretariat stamp takes place as part of the U.S. Postal Service’s “Celebrate the Century.”

Nov. 7: As part of the Dispersal of the Estate of Paul Mellon, 1993 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Sea Hero sells for $700,000 to Jean

Pierre Deroubaix, agent. Lane’s End, agent, handles the sale of Sea Hero, who will stand in Turkey until his death in July 2019.

November: Gross sales at the November Breeding Stock Sale exceed $300 million for the first time, reaching $317,666,000.

Dec. 13: Keeneland announces Nick Nicholson will become the track’s sixth President on Jan. 15, 2000.

2000

April: Keeneland purchases The Thoroughbred Center, a training facility on Paris Pike in northeast Lexington, from Churchill Downs.

The outdoor first floor of the Keeneland Clubhouse undergoes a major renovation in the summer. The area is completely enclosed and renovations include the addition of a slate floor, brick pavers, Keeneland’s signature twoover-two stonework, new mutuel windows, concession stands and more than 100 closedcircuit televisions. The Clubhouse renovation is completed for the Fall Meet.

September: A new 13,000-square-foot covered show ring debuts at the September Yearling Sale. … Champion War Emblem, who will win the 2002 Kentucky Derby, brings $20,000. … September Sale record for a colt ($6.8 million for Tasmanian Tiger) is set as the gross reaches a record $291,827,100.

Sept. 17: Keeneland launches the Thoroughbred industry’s first Internet auction. More than 200 buyers and agents register to bid.

2001

Feb. 23: Tom Caldwell dies. Ryan Mahan is later named Senior Auctioneer.

June: Geoffrey Russell is named Director of Sales. W. B. Rogers Beasley is tapped to be Keeneland’s Director of Racing.

Sept. 11: Keeneland postpones the Tuesday session of September Yearling Sale due to the terrorist attacks that day. Each remaining session is moved to the following day. A fund drive for 9-11 relief during the sale raises $5.7 million.

Oct. 7-9: Keeneland opens the 17-day Fall Meet on a Friday and debuts Fall Stars Weekend with stakes over three days serving as prep races for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

Oct. 18: James E. “Ted” Bassett III, Chairman of the Board since March 1986, announces his retirement.

2002

July: European champion One Cool Cat brings a sale-topping $3.1 million at the July Yearling Sale, which is in its final year.

July 14: Howard Battle, Keeneland’s longtime Racing Secretary, dies. Battle stepped down as Racing Secretary earlier in the year and became stakes coordinator. Ben Huffman is named as his replacement. Battle is the posthumous recipient of the 2002 Eclipse Award of Merit.

July 15: Opening day at the new Keeneland Library, which will receive the 2002 Special Eclipse Award for its efforts to preserve Thoroughbred racing’s storied past.

Oct. 9: George “Bucky” Sallee, Keeneland’s longtime bugler, marks his 10,000th call to the post.

November: “Seabiscuit”, the Academy Awardnominated film based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand, begins filming at Keeneland. Parts of Keeneland, including the infield, track, Grandstand, Clubhouse and lawn, are retrofitted to look like Pimlico Race Course circa 1938. On Nov. 17, more than 4,000 unpaid extras turn out to be a part of the match race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral.

2003

Jan. 14: Citing the effects of Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome, Keeneland places the July Selected Yearling Sale on hiatus.

Oct. 5: Take Charge Lady becomes the first horse to win four Keeneland stakes when she captures the Spinster. In 2001, she took the Alcibiades; in 2002, she won the Ashland and the Spinster.

Oct. 10: With Yell’s win in the Raven Run, Claiborne Farm becomes the first recipient of the Gold Bowl, the highest honor to date in Keeneland’s Milestone Trophy Program.

2004

Aug. 3: Racing Hall of Famer Pat Day announces his retirement. He is Thoroughbred racing’s all-time leading jockey by earnings ($297,914,839) and is Keeneland’s all-time

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leading jockey by wins (918), stakes wins (95) and titles as leading rider (22).

September: Keeneland’s 5-furlong training track opens with a new Polytrack surface, making it the first of its type at a public racing or training facility in North America.

September: The Storm Cat colt Mr. Sekiguchi sells for $8 million at the September Yearling Sale, which has record gross sales of $324,904,300. This marks the first time total sales exceed $300 million.

October: Keeneland becomes the setting for the Breeders’ Cup for the movie “Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story.”

Oct. 10: Racing Hall of Famer Azeri wins the Overbrook Spinster. She sold for $100,000 at the 1999 September Sale and will sell for $2,225,000 at the 2009 November Breeding Stock Sale.

November: Expansion and renovation of the Sales Pavilion begins and is scheduled for completion in August 2005.

2005

April 8: Opening day of the 16-day Spring Meet during which future Racing Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher scores a season record 16 victories.

Sept. 2: Longtime Keeneland Trustee and Board Member Charles Nuckols Jr. dies. Later in the month, William T. “Buddy” Bishop, a prominent Lexington attorney and longtime Board Member and Secretary of Keeneland, is named Trustee.

September: Newly renovated Sales Pavilion debuts at the September Yearling Sale. The renovation, which began in November 2004 and was scheduled around Keeneland’s racing and sales events, features a 5,000 square-foot expansion for the relocation of the Repository, more and larger conference rooms and a kitchen to service more dining areas. Other enhancements include hi-speed wireless access throughout the facility, a new business center and lounge/bar area, renovated press area, sales counter and restrooms and updated sound, message and bid board systems. … Champion Rags to Riches, who in 2007 becomes the third filly to win the Belmont, sells for $1.9 million at the September Sale. Other sale graduates include Hall of Famers Curlin (sold for $57,000) and Zenyatta ($60,000).

Oct. 7-29: Keeneland introduces the 10-cent superfecta wager during the Fall Meet.

October: Keeneland’s Board of Directors instructs management to continue planning, design and engineering for the installation of Polytrack on its main track during the summer of 2006.

2006

The Equestrian Room, located on the first floor Grandstand adjacent to the finish line, undergoes an extensive renovation prior to the opening of the Spring Meet.

April 7: Opening day of the 15-day Spring Meet during which Julien Leparoux becomes the first apprentice to win a leading rider title at Keeneland when he ties Rafael Bejarano for top honors with 17 wins. Leparoux wins the title again in the Fall Meet and earns the year’s Eclipse Award as North America’s outstanding apprentice.

April 23: Barbaro works 5 furlongs in 1:01.80 at Keeneland before heading to Churchill Downs to continue preparations for the Kentucky Derby, which he will win.

Following the Spring Meet, a massive renovation begins and includes the installation of Polytrack racing surface on the main track. Keeneland will become only the third race track in North America, joining Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., and Woodbine in Toronto, to have Polytrack. The track is reconfigured to widen the turns and lengthen the stretch. Other significant improvements include the installation of a state-of-the-art LED tote board; enlargement of the trackside apron along the Grandstand and Clubhouse lawn to create additional space for patrons; larger Winner’s Circle; and construction of a stone and wrought iron trackside rail along the Grandstand and Clubhouse aprons. Keeneland will become the first race track in the U.S. to offer Trakus video race technology. (Trakus, in use at Keeneland through 2023, provided the ability – via sensor chips carried in saddle cloths and antennas positioned around the race track – to track each horse in a race electronically and digitally in real time. Information on individual horses was collected and displayed in various viewer-friendly animated forms.)

September: Meydan City, a colt by Kingmambo, sells for a September Yearling Sale record $11.7 million.

Oct. 6: Opening day of the 17-day Fall Meet, which marks the debut of Polytrack on the main track and numerous improvements. … Lordly, owned by Keeneland Trustee Louis Lee Haggin III, wins the first race on Polytrack.

Oct. 6-28: During the Fall Meet, Racing Hall of Famer Lava Man trains at Keeneland after he won the first seven races of the year and before he finishes seventh in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Churchill Downs. He is among the horses stabled at Keeneland for trainer Doug O’Neill, joining Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity (G1) winner Great Hunter.

November: Gross sales at the November Breeding Stock Sale are $313,843,800, marking the first time total sales exceed $300 million. Results include sale record prices of $6.1 million for a horse in training (Half Ours), $2.4 million for a weanling filly (Isla Canela) and a North American record $2.7 million for a weanling colt (Amour Malheureux).

2007

January: Gross sales for the January Horses of All Ages Sale are a record $72,868,200.

April: Champion Big Brown, who will win the 2008 Kentucky Derby, sells for $190,000 at the April Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training.

April 14: Champion Street Sense is second behind Dominican in the first Toyota Blue Grass run on Polytrack and goes on to win the Kentucky Derby. The previous Fall, Street Sense is third in the Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity and wins the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

October: Racing Hall of Famer Curlin arrives at Keeneland after winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) to train for his next start in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Monmouth. He will win that race for his Hall of Fame trainer, Steve Asmussen. The following spring, Curlin will be stabled at Keeneland for a time following his win in the Dubai World Cup (G1).

November: Group 1 winner Playful Act (IRE) sells for $10.5 million, a record for the November Breeding Stock Sale. … Gross receipts are sale record $340,877,200.

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2008

Jan. 23: Alma Haggin, credited with creating Keeneland’s distinctive ambiance, dies at 95. Mrs. Haggin is the daughter of Keeneland co-founder and inaugural President Hal Price Headley; wife of Louis Lee Haggin II, who succeeded his father-in-law as President and later served as Chairman of the Board; and mother of Keeneland Director and Trustee Louis Lee Haggin III.

April 3: William T. “Buddy” Bishop III, whose lifelong service to Keeneland included positions as Director, Secretary, Trustee, and Counsel, dies.

April 19: Todd Pletcher matches Bill Mott’s training feat from 1995 when he sends out four winners on the card.

September: Sales at the September Yearling Sale total nearly $328 million despite a global economic crisis.

Oct. 3: Opening day of the 17-day Fall Meet, when Keeneland becomes the first North American track to provide live race coverage and limited simulcasts in high-definition format.

Oct. 17: Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra concludes her 2-year-old season with a 3-length win in a 6-furlong allowance race on Polytrack.

2009

The Horseplayers Association of North America (HANA) ranks Keeneland first among North America’s top race tracks in its inaugural Track Rating System.

April 3: Opening day of the 15-day Spring Meet during which Keeneland opens the restored Keene Place to the public. Built in 1805 by the Keene family, the mansion sits on a portion of land once part of Keeneland Stud Farm. In 1825, the home welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette of France, for whom Fayette County is named and who served as an American General in the Revolutionary War. Keeneland purchased the home and its 15 surrounding acres in 2003, and undertook, in partnership with the Center for Historic Architecture and Preservation, an extensive

restoration, with the goal to protect the mansion and its historical integrity.

April 6-7: Champion Lookin At Lucky sells for $475,000 at the April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

April 17: Keeneland becomes the second track accredited by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Safety and Integrity Alliance. The Alliance was formed with the goal of establishing national uniform standards in the areas of safety and integrity, and includes 55 race tracks in North America and every major national horsemen’s organization. Alliance certification standards cover five broad areas: injury reporting and prevention; creating a safer racing environment; aftercare and transition of retired racehorses; uniform medication, testing and penalties; and safety research.

April 18: Riders Up!, a karaoke competition at the Keeneland Entertainment Center, raises more than $50,000 for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

September: Selected scenes for Walt Disney Pictures’ “Secretariat” are filmed at Keeneland.

Oct. 9: Opening day of the Fall Meet during which Keeneland begins to simulcast its racing product in high definition.

Oct. 15: Pierre Bellocq, the internationally celebrated artist better known as “Peb,” joins Keeneland and Daily Racing Form to announce the donation of nearly a half-century of his humorous caricatures and equine cartoons to the Keeneland Library.

Oct. 31: Closing day of the Fall Meet marks the final day for Jim Williams, Keeneland’s longtime director of communications, who retires following more than 38 years with the company.

November: The November Breeding Stock Sale is boosted by the dispersal of the W.T.

Young family’s Overbrook Farm. With Eaton Sales, agent, Overbrook sells 148 horses for $31,760,000. When combined with the 48 yearlings Overbrook sold for $6,644,000 in September, the dispersal ranks as the secondlargest in Keeneland sales history, selling a total of 196 horses for $38,404,000, for an average of $195,939. Only the Nelson Bunker Hunt dispersal, which sold 580 horses for $46,912,800 during the 1988 January Horses of All Ages Sale, ranks higher.

2010

April 2: Opening day of the 15-day Spring Meet during which Keeneland introduces a 50-cent Pick 3 wager.

Sept. 10-Oct. 10: The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, and excitement carries into the Fall Meet, where on-track attendance totals 229,909, an increase of nearly 20 percent from 2009. Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Equestrian Foundation sponsors the $53,250 The President of United Arab Emirates Cup, the first race for Arabians at Keeneland. Held on Fall Stars Saturday, the race is won by Grilla.

Dec. 6: More than 1,000 fans brave freezing temperatures and gather at Keeneland’s outdoor show ring to welcome Horse of the Year Zenyatta to Kentucky. Accompanied by “Team Zenyatta,” including owners Jerry and Ann Moss and trainer John Shirreffs, the champion is paraded publicly for a final time before her retirement to Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky. Fans traveled from as far away as California, New York, Michigan and Ohio to see Zenyatta, who is presented with a gift basket filled with her favorite treats, including mints, pears and Guinness beer, by Keeneland officials.

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2011

March 2: Keeneland names Walt Robertson the Vice President of Sales.

April 8: Opening day of the 15-day Spring Meet during which Keeneland introduces a 50-cent Pick 5 wager. … Despite a record 13 inches of rainfall during April, the Spring Meet ranks among the best in track history.

April 16: Recently retired Ball Four, winner of the 2008 Fayette (G3) at Keeneland, appears during a demonstration by Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farms during Breakfast With the Works. At the event are former MLB pitcher Jim Bouton, author of the acclaimed baseball diary Ball Four, and Old Friends founder Michael Blowen.

May-June: The winners of every Triple Crown race -- Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, Preakness winner Shackleford and Belmont winner Ruler On Ice – are graduates of the 2009 September Yearling Sale.

Oct. 15: As part of a yearlong celebration, Keeneland marks its 75th anniversary on the opening date of the track’s first live meet in 1936. That afternoon, a special 6-furlong stakes for 2-year-olds, the Keeneland 75th Anniversary Stakes, is run. That evening, a musical salute from the Boston Pops is held at Rupp Arena in downtown Lexington. The concert features the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, with the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. Proceeds from the concert benefit the Lee T. Todd Jr. and Patricia B. Todd Music Outreach Endowment, created as part of a three-year commitment made by Maker’s Mark and Keeneland to raise money for music outreach in schools throughout Kentucky.

Oct. 20: Kentucky favorite Brass Hat parades in the Paddock and Walking Ring on the day of the Sycamore (G3), which he won in 2010. The victory marks the final career win for Brass Hat, who made six starts at Keeneland.

November: Top-class race fillies and mares and two unique bloodstock dispersals – Edward P. Evans’ Spring Hill Farm and Prince Saud bin Khaled’s Palides Investments N.V., Inc. – produce record prices at the November Breeding Stock Sale. Gross receipts are up 41.4

percent as 2,554 lots sell for $208,511,200. Twenty-three horses bring $1 million or more. The $8.5 million paid for eventual champion Royal Delta is a Keeneland sales record for a horse in training; a half-sister to Horse of the Year Saint Liam (Miss Besilu) goes for $2.6 million to establish a North American record for a weanling filly sold at public auction.

November: With Lane’s End as agent, the dispersal of Edward P. Evans’ Spring Hill Farm sells 170 lots for $55,820,000 at the November Sale to become the highest-grossing Thoroughbred dispersal at public auction in North America of all time. When combined with the 50 yearlings sold for $6,527,000 at the September Yearling Sale, the dispersal sells a total of 220 lots for $62,347,000.

2012

April 15: Havre de Grace, the 2011 Horse of the Year, parades in the Paddock between races. She is at Keeneland to train for her next scheduled start in the La Troienne (G2) at Churchill Downs on May 4 but will be retired before that race. The previous October, Havre de Grace trained at Keeneland before finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Churchill.

April 20: Leading Spring Meet jockey Julien Leparoux ties a record when he wins six races. He shares the record with Randy Romero (April 7, 1990) and Craig Perret (April 18, 1990).

Sept. 1: Keeneland President and CEO Nick Nicholson retires from Keeneland Association following nearly 13 years. Keeneland Trustees select Bill Thomason, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, as Nicholson’s successor.

Oct. 14: During the 17-day Fall Meet, Keeneland welcomes Olympic track star and Lexington native Tyson Gay to the races for a special salute.

Oct. 14: Plum Pretty, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Oaks (G1), parades in the Paddock before the fifth race. At the November Breeding Stock Sale, she sells for $4.2 million to Whisper Hill Farm.

2013

Jan. 19: Wise Dan, who is based at Keeneland with trainer Charlie LoPresti, receives Eclipse Awards as Horse of the Year, champion older male and champion turf male. He is the first horse since John Henry in 1981 to sweep the three categories.

April 5-26: Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey’s horses win 25 races during the 16-day Spring Meet to shatter the previous record of 12 wins

by an owner during a single season. Leading trainer Michael J. Maker wins 25 races, a record for a trainer in a single Keeneland meet. Leading jockey Joel Rosario wins 38 races to set a record for most wins by a jockey in a Spring Meet.

Oct. 4: Opening day of the Fall Meet on which George “Bucky” Sallee retires after some 50 years as Keeneland bugler and becomes Bugler Emeritus. Noted trumpeter Steve Buttleman becomes the new track bugler.

Oct. 10: On Make-A-Wish Day, an anonymous fan at Keeneland donates his winning Pick 4 ticket worth $26,000 to the Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana chapter of MakeA-Wish Foundation.

Oct. 11-13: Back-to-back single-day attendance records result in a record Fall weekend crowd. On See Blue Day, Friday, Oct. 11, attendance of 22,807 is the highest recorded for a Friday during the Fall Meet. Attendance of 32,717 on Saturday, Oct. 12, sets a single-day Fall Meet record, eclipsing the previous record of 28,880 set on Oct. 7, 2006. (Oct. 12 features the $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and a night football game between the University of Kentucky and defending national champion University of Alabama.) Those two days, combined with a Sunday turnout of 16,927, result in a record Fall Meet weekend attendance of 72,451.

Oct. 4-26: During the 17-day Fall Meet, jockey Rosie Napravnik wins 17 races to become the first female to capture the leading rider title at the track. … Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey earn their 13th leading owner title after winning 17 races, a Fall Meet record.

2014

Jan. 18: Keeneland-based Wise Dan is named the 2013 Horse of the Year, champion turf male and champion older horse, marking the second consecutive year he has swept the three

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titles. No other horse has received three Eclipse Awards in a single season for two years in a row since the awards were inaugurated in 1971.

April 2: Keeneland announces it will convert the main race track from Polytrack to a dirt surface. Construction begins May 19 and is completed Aug. 15. The track reopens for training Sept. 1.

April 13: Keeneland honors these retired and active female jockeys who participate in the “Ladies of the Turf” event on Horses and Hope Pink Day: Vicky Aragon Baze, Donna Barton Brothers, Patti Barton, Kaye Bell, Stacie ClarkRogers, Patti Cooksey, Diane Crump, Mary Doser, Tammy Fox, Abby Fuller, Julie Krone, Kathy Kusner, Rosie Napravnik, Suzie PicouOldham, Tami Purcell-Burklund, Jennifer Rowland-Small, Barbara Jo Rubin, Andrea Seefeldt Knight, Melinda Spickard Vest, Kaoru Tschuiya-Chatfield, Cheryl White and Mary Wiley-Wagner.

April 18: Mine That Bird parades in the Paddock as part of a cross-country tour to promote the movie “50 to 1,” which chronicles his improbable journey to victory in the 2009 Kentucky Derby (G1). Also here are owners Dr. Leonard Blach and Mark Allen, trainer Chip Woolley, director Jim Wilson, writer Faith Conroy and actors Skeet Ulrich and Todd Lowe. That evening at the Keeneland Sales Pavilion, Mine That Bird and Funny Cide appear at the “It’s my Derby” private event.

June 24: Breeders’ Cup Ltd. announces that Keeneland will host the 32nd Breeders’ Cup World Championships on Oct. 3031, 2015. This will mark the first time that Keeneland will hold Thoroughbred racing’s season-ending championship event. The announcement at Keene Place is made before a group of distinguished guests that include Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, Breeders’ Cup Chairman Bill Farish, Keeneland President and CEO Bill Thomason, city officials and Thoroughbred industry representatives. Keeneland employees gather in the Sales Pavilion to watch and participate in the announcement.

Oct. 3-25: Fall Meet marks debut of innovative dirt surface installed on the main track over the summer. … Rosie Napravnik wins 16 races and is the leading rider for the second consecutive Fall Meet.

Oct. 4: Wise Dan wins the $1 million Shadwell Turf Mile (G1), the first seven-figure race in Keeneland history. His jockey, John Velazquez, wins five races that day. Velazquez also rides Carpe Diem to win the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) and Dayatthespa to win the First Lady (G1).

Dec. 5: Keeneland announces it has moved the 2015 Toyota Blue Grass to opening Saturday of the Spring Meet, April 4, and raised the purse of the race from $750,000 to $1 million. Other stakes that day include the Central Bank Ashland.

2015

Jan. 6: Keeneland announces the 2015 April Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training has been put on hiatus. The sale was first held in 1993.

Feb. 1: Keeneland acquires Turf Catering’s Keeneland division. Turf Catering had been Keeneland’s exclusive food and beverage company since the track opened in 1936. The new operation, Keeneland Hospitality, comprises current Turf Catering employees and continues to feature the recipes for fan favorites such as bread pudding and burgoo.

April 3: Opening day of the 15-day Spring Meet when heavy rains forced Keeneland to cancel the final four races, including the featured Transylvania (G3) Presented by Keeneland Select, on the 10-race card. The Transylvania was redrawn and run April 15. The winner was Night Prowler.

April: Keeneland opens a newly constructed Information Center (including a Ticket Office) to better serve fans. It is located just outside the recently renovated South Gate entrance near the Clubhouse. The previous Ticket Office, located near First Aid and the first floor Clubhouse area, becomes public restrooms.

May 6: Keeneland announces it will move its year-round simulcast wagering operations to Red Mile, the historic Standardbred track near downtown Lexington, beginning July 15, 2015. Keeneland and Red Mile will offer wagering on Thoroughbred, harness and Quarter Horse racing at one Lexington location. Keeneland will continue to offer simulcast wagering during the track’s Spring and Fall race meets and annual Thoroughbred auctions (in limited areas), and for special-event days such as the Kentucky Oaks (G1) and Kentucky Derby (G1).

Oct. 3: Keeneland-based Wise Dan, the 20122013 Horse of the Year, parades on the day of the Shadwell Turf Mile (G1). He ran in the race four times, winning in 2012 and 2014, finishing third in 2013 and fourth in 2011. The 2014 victory came in Wise Dan’s final race.

Oct. 29: Keeneland holds Prelude to the Cup, a special day of racing on the eve of the Breeders’ Cup. Nine races include the $100,000 Lafayette Presented by Keeneland Select. Attendance is 11,818.

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benefit the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund. In attendance are Braulio Baeza, Bill Boland, Don Brumfield, Steve Cauthen, Pat Day, Earlie Fires, Sandy Hawley, Eddie Maple, Chris McCarron, Don Pierce, Laffit Pincay Jr., Randy Romero, John Rotz, Jose Santos, Gary Stevens, Jacinto Vasquez, Jorge Velasquez and Manny Ycaza.

April 29: On closing day of the Spring Meet, Nyquist works in company with Grade 1-winning stablemate Ralis before Keeneland fans less than one hour before the first race. The move is his third and final breeze at Keeneland. The following day, Nyquist ships to Churchill Downs, where a week later he wins the Kentucky Derby (G1).

Oct. 30-31: For the first time, Keeneland hosts the Breeders’ Cup World Championships (page 10).

Nov. 2-13: The November Breeding Stock Sale is highlighted by the $6 million sale of champion and broodmare prospect Take Charge Brandi and the $3.2 million sale of the weanling Lady Take Charge.

2016

April 3: Undefeated champion Nyquist, winner of the 2015 Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Keeneland, returns to Keeneland the day after winning the Florida Derby (G1) to prepare for his next start in the Kentucky Derby (G1). Nyquist is among 12 horses trainer Doug O’Neill has at the track.

April 22: On Hall of Fame Jockey Day, Keeneland hosts 18 Hall of Famers who won a total of 89,621 races, including 20 runnings of the Kentucky Derby. They participate in a Q&A session and an autograph signing to

May-June: The winners of all three Triple Crown races – Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Nyquist, Preakness (G1) winner Exaggerator and Belmont (G1) winner Creator – are graduates of the 2014 September Yearling Sale.

June 30: W.B. Rogers Beasley retires following 34 years of leadership in Keeneland racing and sales. Beasley helped establish Keeneland’s position as the world’s premier Thoroughbred auction house and strengthen the track’s lucrative racing program. Beasley native joined Keeneland’s Racing Office in 1982, serving as an entry clerk and in other capacities under noted Racing Secretary Howard Battle. He was named Keeneland’s Director of Sales in May 1982, succeeding William S. Evans, who retired in December 1980. In June 2001, Keeneland named Beasley to the newly created position of Director of Racing.

Aug. 25: Seth W. Hancock becomes a Keeneland Trustee upon the retirement of Louis Lee Haggin III.

Oct. 7-29: The Fall Meet celebrates the track’s 80th anniversary of racing. Mark Casse, the meet’s leading trainer, and Graham Motion each win four stakes to equal Ben Jones, D. Wayne Lukas and Todd Pletcher for most stakes wins by a trainer in a single meet at Keeneland. Julien Leparoux earns his 11th meet title as leading rider and moves into sole possession of third place in total meet titles behind Hall of Famer Pat Day (22) and Don Brumfield (16).

Oct. 20: Sixty-one perfect Pick 6 tickets each pay $16,690. That day, a total of $1,145,677 is wagered into the Pick 6 pool to set a record single-day Keeneland Fall Meet Pick 6 handle.

Nov. 7: George “Bucky” Sallee, Keeneland’s bugler for more than 50 years until his retirement in the fall of 2013 to become Bugler Emeritus, dies at 87.

2017

April 14: Trainer Todd Pletcher scores a record 51st stakes win at Keeneland when American Patriot captures the Maker’s 46 Mile (G1). Pletcher surpasses the previous record set by his former boss, D. Wayne Lukas. Pletcher tied Lukas when Sweet Loretta won the Adena Springs Beaumont (G3) on April 9 and takes stakes victory No. 52 when Unbridled Mo wins the Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare (G3) on April 21.

Oct. 6: Robby Albarado rides Silver Defense to win the third race on opening day of the Fall Meet to record his 500th Keeneland victory. Albarado scored his first Keeneland victory during the 1996 Fall Meet.

Oct. 9: A public celebration of Helen “Penny” Chenery’s life is held in the Sales Pavilion, where friends of the late “First Lady of Thoroughbred Racing” reminisce and honor her contributions to the sport.

2018

April 6: Spring Meet opens with debut of new race-day preview show, “Today at Keeneland,” for on-track and simulcast patrons.

June 9: Justify, sold for $500,000 at Keeneland’s 2016 September Yearling Sale, wins the Belmont (G1) and becomes racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner. The undefeated colt will be named Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male of 2018.

Aug. 13: New Zealand artist Peter Williams, a familiar figure in the Keeneland Paddock, dies at the age of 84 at his home in Goshen, Kentucky.

Aug. 17: Breeders’ Cup announces the World Thoroughbred Championship will return to Keeneland on Nov. 6-7, 2020.

2019

Jan. 7: Champion Abel Tasman commands $5 million at the January Horses of All Ages Sale from Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier. The price is a record for a broodmare prospect and equals the highest price paid for a horse at the auction.

March 21: Everett R. Dobson is appointed a Keeneland Trustee, succeeding William S. Farish.

April 4: The 16-day Spring Meet opens on a Thursday (for the first time in 60 years) with a 3 p.m. first post. Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton proclaims the day to be “Keeneland Day in the Bluegrass.” Eight races are followed by Central Bank Thursday Night Live at Keeneland, which teams with the Downtown Lexington Partnership to host the live music event for the first time at the track.

April 9: Keeneland reinstates its April auction with the April Two-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale.

May 7: Christa Marrillia, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, and Marc Therrien, Managing Director of Keeneland Hospitality, join Keeneland’s executive team.

June 3: Lifelong horseman and longtime Keeneland Starter Robert Lee “Spec” Alexander dies at 80. He became an assistant starter at Keeneland in the 1970s and became head starter in the 1980s.

Sept. 11: A filly by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah who is a half-sister to fourtime champion Beholder, Grade 1 winner Mendelssohn and Grade 1 winner and leading sire Into Mischief – later named America’s Joy -sells for $8.2 million to Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm. The price is a September Sale record for a filly, equals the fourth-highest price for a yearling sold at the auction and is among the 10 highest prices in Keeneland sales history.

Sept. 30: Keeneland appoints Dr. George Mundy as Equine Safety Director and Jim Pendergest as Director of Racing Surfaces.

Oct. 3: Keeneland and UK HealthCare enter a multiyear agreement that includes sponsorship of the Keeneland Kids Club, the run/walk program and the First Lady (G1) stakes during the Fall Meet. Underscoring the partnership is Keeneland and UK HealthCare’s shared commitment to support the communities they serve through education, philanthropy and community engagement.

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Oct. 13: The Secretariat Bronze Monument – created by Jocelyn Russell and now located in the traffic circle at Old Frankfort Pike and Alexandria Drive in Lexington – is unveiled outside the Keeneland Sales Pavilion during the two-day Secretariat Festival, an annual event to celebrate the beloved Triple Crown winner.

Nov. 19: A press conference at the Keeneland Library announces the formation of the Thoroughbred Safety Coalition, an industryled effort to unify and enhance existing protections and work together to develop new reforms to ensure the safety of the sport’s equine and human athletes. Founding members are Breeders’ Cup, Churchill Downs, Del Mar, Keeneland, New York Racing Association and The Stronach Group.

2020

Jan. 15: During the third session of the January Horses of All Ages Sale, Gabby Gaudet takes the auctioneer’s stand to become the first female to announce at a major Thoroughbred sale in North America. A TVG racing analyst and Keeneland expert commentator, Gaudet joins Kurt Becker, Scott Hazelton and John Henderson as Keeneland sales announcers. She and Hazelton co-host Keeneland’s race-day preview show, “Today at Keeneland,” and are Paddock commentators. Gaudet also serves as a U.S. representative for Keeneland sales.

March 16: Keeneland cancels the Spring Meet.

April 1: Several Central Kentucky community organizations announce the creation of Nourish Lexington, an initiative to use hospitality workers unemployed due to the COVID-19 closings and other community food assets to provide prepared meals to those who need immediate access to food. To help provide relief, Keeneland donates 1,500 pounds of food to the program and contributes 100% of the proceeds from online sales from The Keeneland Shop and Keeneland Mercantile during April to the effort.

Awards and Recognition

Through the years, Keeneland has been recognized for its commitment to outstanding customer service and its efforts to preserve and promote the Thoroughbred industry:

1986: Keeneland is named a National Historic Landmark.

2002: The Keeneland Library receives a Special Eclipse Award for its efforts to preserve racing’s storied past.

2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014: Keeneland wins the Thoroughbred Racing Associations’ International Simulcast Award, which honors racing’s best simulcast production.

2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014: Horseplayers Association of North America (HANA) ranks Keeneland first among North America’s top tracks in its Track Rating System.

2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021: Keeneland earns accreditation from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Safety and Integrity Alliance.

2015: Keeneland inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.

March 12: Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Keeneland announces the April 2-24 Spring Meet will be held without spectators and cancels the April 7 April Sale.

2016, 2020: Keeneland Association Inc. is named a winner of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management in the category of medium companies defined as 150-499 employees.

Each November since 2013, Keeneland and Cross Gate Gallery of Lexington have presented the Sporting Art Auction as a collaboration between the world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house and the country’s premier gallery of fine sporting art and contemporary British figurative painting. The auction annually features approximately 175 pieces of fine sporting art, American paintings and sculpture from renowned artists.

The Sporting Art Auction, held in the Keeneland Sales Pavilion, is free and open to the public. The artwork is exhibited in the Keeneland Sales Pavilion beginning with the September Yearling Sale and continuing through the November Sales.

In furtherance of its mission, Keeneland’s portion of the proceeds from the auction benefits its non-profit initiatives.

Here are the highlights from each edition of the event:

2013: Total sales surpass $3.1 million. LeRoy Neiman’s Flat Racing, a one-of-a-kind glazed ceramic tile mural, sells for $291,000, including buyer premium, to top the auction.

2014: Total sales are $2.25 million. The sale-topper is Ashley Collins’ massive triptych Hercules, which sells for $149,500, including buyer premium.

2015: Sir Alfred Munnings’ signed painting Lord Astor’s Broodmare and Foal brings top price of $207,000, including buyer premium. Gross sales total $2,534,370. Eighty-two percent of the pieces offered sell with more than 37 percent of those works bringing final bids at or above their listed high estimate value.

2016: Andre Pater’s Red Arrow, 2016, sold for $276,000, including buyer premium, following a spirited bidding duel to be the highest-priced work at the auction. Pater was on hand to watch the competition for his work. Gross sales totaled $2,478,710. Seventy-five percent of the pieces offered in the auction sold.

2017: Sir Alfred Munnings’ A Morning’s Work, Newmarket Heath sold for $186,300, including buyer premium, and gross sales totaled $2,426,040. Eighty-two percent of the pieces offered in the auction sold.

2018: The sale of LeRoy Neiman’s Black Lab for $149,500, including buyer premium, headlined the auction, which grossed $2,046,540. Also auctioned were items belonging to Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and Justify that raised $67,850 in support of the Ann Hanley Parkinson’s Research Fund. A halter worn by Justify sold for $31,050, including buyer premium. Horseshoes worn by Justify and American Pharoah, framed with two Sports Illustrated magazines featuring both horses and signed by Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert and Triple Crown-winning jockeys Mike Smith and Victor Espinoza, brought $36,800, including buyer premium. Bob and Jill Baffert donated both items.

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Sporting Art Auction

2019: The high seller, at $97,750 (including buyer premium), is Sir Alfred Munnings’ A Gypsy Encampment. Gross sales total $1,707,175.

2020: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the auction was held virtually. Andrew Wyeth’s Over the Hill, a watercolor painted by Wyeth in 1973 that remained in his personal collection until 2006, brought $109,250, including buyer premium, to top the event. Gross sales totaled $1,625,945.

2021: Gross sales reach $1,908,015. The high seller was Andre Pater’s War and Peace, a pair of signed and dated pastels, sold for $115,000, including buyer premium.

2022: Most successful in history with more than 90% of lots sold. The event attracted 300 buyers from nearly a dozen countries and grossed over $2.5 million. Top sellers were Henry Faulkner’s Floral at $123,375 and Sir Alfred Munnings’ Hop Pickers at Hampshire at $120,000.

2023: Gross sales of $2,826,671 were headlined by the sale of LeRoy Neiman’s iconic Secretariat, a signed oil on board dated ’73, for $146,875. Eighty-eight percent of the 213 works in the auction sold. The auction included eight original works by regional favorite Henry Faulkner, whose By Gratz Park and Still Life with Flowers, both signed oil on board pieces, fetched $90,475 and $47,000, respectively.

2024: LeRoy Neiman’s To the Wire sold for an auction record $334,875 to headline the event, which grossed $2,553,126. Of the 203 pieces offered, 75% sold to people from seven countries who participated both in person and remotely.

2025: The high seller was LeRoy Neiman’s Lady Liberty, a signed oil on board that realized $229,125 as total sales reached $2.7 million. Of the 206 pieces, 90% sold.

The second- and third-highest-priced sellers were two works by Andre Pater. His oil-oncanvas Breeders’ Cup 1999 sold for $141,000, while Watermelon Jockey, a vibrant pastel, recorded $117,500.

For more information, visit thesportingartauction.com.

May 5: Keeneland announces Nourish the Backstretch, powered by Keeneland, Nourish Lexington and Blue Grass Farms Charities, to provide weekly meals and groceries to stable area workers at Keeneland and The Thoroughbred Center. Proceeds from wagers placed through Keeneland Select in May are donated to Nourish the Backstretch.

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other industry leaders as a solution to the challenges facing racing. The press conference also announces the launch of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, an independent, non-governmental regulatory body responsible for implementing uniform medication rules and operational standards. Congress included the Act in its FY 2021 omnibus spending bill, which it passed Dec. 21. President Trump signed the measure into law Dec. 27.

Sept. 1: Shannon Bishop Arvin begins serving as Keeneland President-Elect. She also is Interim Head of Sales.

Sept. 12: Breeders’ Cup Ltd. announces Keeneland will hold the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships on Nov. 4-5. The announcement is made in conjunction with the decision to hold the 2020 event – also at Keeneland – without on-site fans because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oct. 2-24: The Fall Meet is closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic; only a limited number of participants and essential personnel are permitted to attend. Wagering exceeds $148 million on the 17-day season.

May 15: Keeneland auctioneer Cris Caldwell, who continued the legacy of his late father, Tom Caldwell, and served as a member of Keeneland’s auction team from 1975 through the 2020 January Horses of All Ages Sale, dies at 63.

May 29: Keeneland launches the Digital Sales Ring, a stand-alone online auction platform accessible to buyers and sellers around the world at Keenelanddigital.com.

June 24: Internationally respected veterinarian Dr. Stuart E. Brown II joins Keeneland as Equine Safety Director. Dr. George Mundy becomes the track’s Racing Safety Officer.

July 2: Bill Thomason announces his retirement as Keeneland President and CEO. Keeneland Trustees name Shannon Bishop Arvin – who as a partner with the Lexington firm Stoll Keenon Ogden, served as corporate counsel to Keeneland since 2008 and as secretary and advisory member of Keeneland’s Board of Directors since 2015 – to succeed Thomason.

July 8-12: Keeneland conducts a five-day Summer Meet, the first in track history, to accommodate a portion of the canceled Spring Meet. Because of strict health and safety protocols resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Summer Meet is held without fans, who watch and wager remotely via the track’s Keeneland at Home Presented by Central Bank campaign. The season features 10 graded stakes worth $2,575,000, including the $600,000 Toyota Blue Grass (G2), won by Art Collector, and $400,000 Central Bank Ashland (G1), won by Speech. Fans wager more than $63 million on the meet.

Aug. 31: At a press conference in the Keeneland Sales Pavilion, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announces plans to introduce legislation in the U.S. Senate to help set national standards to promote fairness, increase safety and help preserve Thoroughbred racing. Titled the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA), the bill is backed by Keeneland, Churchill Downs, Breeders’ Cup, The Jockey Club and

Keeneland Firsts

Throughout its history, Keeneland has been the first track in Kentucky, the U.S. or North America to debut new technologies or has been an early adopter of advances in Thoroughbred racing. They include:

1936 Fall Meet: During its inaugural season, Keeneland introduces the totalisator wagering system – the first in Kentucky.

1940 Spring Meet: Keeneland debuts the enclosed electric starting gate.

1946 Spring Meet: Keeneland features photo finish equipment for the first time.

1949 Spring Meet: Keeneland has a new aluminum inside rail, which replaces the conventional wooden rail.

1961 Fall Meet: Keeneland is the first American track to use the Visumatic Timer, which posts fractional and final times on the tote board.

1979 Spring Meet: Keeneland becomes the first Kentucky track and the fourth track in the U.S. to use the AmTote 300 Series Totalisator System, known as ABC (All Betting and Cashing) Mutuels. The system allows bettors to buy and cash tickets in any amount and type at any window.

1983 Fall Meet: Keeneland debuts the Fontana Safety Rail, which replaces the aluminum inside rail.

1985 Fall Meet: Keeneland debuts the first turf course in Kentucky. On opening day, Ogama Bay wins the first race on the new surface.

1996: Keeneland opens an on-site Repository of X-rays for horses in the July Yearling Sale.

2006 Fall Meet: Keeneland becomes the first track in the U.S. to offer Trakus video race technology. Trakus provides the ability – via sensor chips in saddle cloths and antennas positioned around the track – to track each horse in a race electronically and digitally in real time. Information on individual horses is collected and displayed in various viewer-friendly animated forms.

2008 Fall Meet: Keeneland becomes the first track in North America to provide live race coverage and limited simulcasts in high definition.

2021: In a first at a U.S. track, Keeneland begins using a network of video cameras on both the main track and training track to capture live footage of horses during morning training. Vice President of Equine Safety Dr. Stuart Brown and Racing Safety Officer Dr. George Mundy monitor videos to evaluate horses for safety purposes.

2021 Fall Meet: Keeneland introduces a new wager, the Keeneland Turf Pick 3, with a $3 minimum and 15 percent takeout, tying together the final three turf races of each day. The wager was well received by the public, netting a total handle of $1,683,502, or an average of $112,233 per day. The average payout was over $1,300 for a $3 wager.

Nov. 6-7: Keeneland hosts the 37th Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which is limited to essential personnel and participants. Total all-sources handle is $160,472,894, the sixthhighest total since the Breeders’ Cup expanded to a two-day event in 2007. The two-day total handle represents a 7% increase from the 2015 Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland.

Dec. 17: Keeneland Association names Rubicon its exclusive sustainability partner. The fiveyear agreement incorporates Rubicon’s smart waste, recycling solutions, data analytics and sustainability planning to support Keeneland’s efforts to reach zero waste.

2021

Jan. 1: Shannon Bishop Arvin becomes Keeneland’s eighth President. She is the first woman to serve in the position.

Feb. 1: G.D. Hieronymus, Keeneland’s Eclipse Award-winning Director of Broadcast Services since 2000, retires. Hieronymus will continue to work during the race meets and on special projects for Keeneland and its industry and philanthropic partners.

Feb. 11: Prominent Central Kentucky horseman and bloodstock adviser Gatewood Bell is named Keeneland’s Vice President of Racing.

March 17: Lane’s End Farm’s William “Bill” Farish, who serves on the boards of numerous Thoroughbred industry and Central Kentucky organizations, is appointed a Keeneland Trustee. Farish succeeds Claiborne Farm coowner Seth Hancock, who retires after serving as a Trustee since 2015.

April 2: Julien Leparoux rides Gear Jockey to win the fifth race on opening day of the Spring Meet to record his 500th career win at Keeneland.

April 2-23: Total all-sources wagering for the 15-day Spring Meet is a season record $164,680,229. In accordance with COVID-19 restrictions, only a limited number of fans are permitted to attend the races. Attendance totals 96,243, for an average daily crowd of 6,416.

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April 7: Alice Headley Chandler, who helped shape Keeneland’s success, dies at 95. Chandler, whose father, Hal Price Headley, was Keeneland’s first President, bred 1968 Epsom Derby winner Sir Ivor, sold by Mill Ridge at the 1966 Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale for $42,000 to Raymond Guest. The colt’s achievements boosted Keeneland’s reputation as an international auction house. Chandler held numerous industry leadership positions and continued her father’s service to Keeneland. She was a member of the track’s Board of Directors for 23 years.

April 26: Internationally respected bloodstock adviser and consignor Tony Lacy is named Keeneland’s Vice President of Sales. Director of Sales Operations Geoffrey Russell will retire from his full-time position after 25 years with Keeneland but remain in a consulting role through 2021.

June 10: Prominent bloodstock consultant Cormac Breathnach, Ph.D., is named Keeneland’s new Director of Sales Operations.

Oct. 8-30: The Fall Meet, which marks Keeneland’s 85th anniversary, generates track record all-sources wagering total ($181,009,626) for the season. On Fall Stars Saturday on opening weekend, single-day allsources wagering ($20,926,640) and Pick 5 wagering ($1,255,080) set records.

Oct. 26: Keeneland Trustee Emeritus James E. “Ted” Bassett III turns 100.

2022

Jan. 7: Because of a winter storm and hazardous travel conditions, Keeneland announces it will shift operations related to the January Horses of All Ages Sale one day and move the start of the four-day auction to Jan. 11.

Jan. 11: On opening day of the January Sale, Bill Layni pays $130,000 for a no-guarantee season to Gun Runner, the leading first-crop sire of 2021, which is auctioned to raise funds for relief efforts for people affected by recent catastrophic tornadoes in Western Kentucky.

Three Chimneys Farm, which stands Gun Runner, and co-owner Ron Winchell donate the season.

Jan. 18: Keeneland Mercantile and Keeneland magazine announce the first Masters of Craft Awards to recognize products of artisans and businesses that are made in the U.S. The winner, announced May 10, was “The 42 Twin” Tree Swing produced by Southern Pine Swing Company of Jacksonville, Florida.

March 2: Lifelong horseman and former trainer William “Buff” Bradley is named to the new position of Keeneland’s Associate of Sales Development. Bradley, who began his role Feb. 28, will concentrate on sales of breeding stock and horses of racing age.

April 8-29: The 15-day Spring Meet offers 19 stakes worth a record $7.7 million. The schedule features increased purses for all stakes and significant changes to the season’s two historic classic preps: The purse of the Toyota Blue Grass (G1) on the first Saturday of the meet is restored to $1 million, and the Central Bank Ashland (G1) moves to opening day and is worth a record $600,000. (The Toyota Blue Grass returns to a Grade 1 event beginning in 2022.)

April 16: Rich Strike works 4 furlongs in :48 at Keeneland and next will win the Kentucky Derby (G1) Presented by Woodford Reserve at odds of 80-1.

September 12-24: Keeneland sets a record for gross sales at a single auction when the grand total of the 12-session September Yearling Sale reaches $418 million.

October: Keeneland plants six cherry trees –three on either side of the infield tote board – in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who died Sept. 9. A lifelong horsewoman and successful Thoroughbred breeder and owner, The Queen visited Keeneland during the 1984 Fall Meet for the inaugural running of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup.

Oct. 7-29: The Fall Meet has a season record all-sources handle of $208.9 million, which is boosted by record purses of $8.95 million.

Nov. 4-5: Keeneland hosts the Breeders’ Cup World Championships for the third time (see page 10). All-sources, global commonpool handle is a record $189 million. Friday attendance is 39,851, and Saturday attendance is 45,973.

November: Keeneland announces the purchase of 200-acre Manchester Farm on its northern boundary. With rolling hills and an iconic barn with distinctive blue-and-white cupolas, Manchester appears in countless photographs and is one of the most recognizable farms in Kentucky.

Nov. 7: A half-hour prior to the start of the November Breeding Stock Sale, spectators packed the Keeneland Sales Pavilion for the offering of a 2.5 percent ownership interest in Flightline, who two days earlier won the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Keeneland. Brookdale Farm’s Freddy Seitz, bidding on behalf of an undisclosed farm client, signs the ticket for $4.6 million.

2023

April 7-28: All-sources wagering during the 15-day Spring Meet is a record $224 million, marking the fifth consecutive meet with record handle. Keeneland awarded a season record $8.05 million for 19 stakes, including $1.5 million from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund.

Because Trakus ceased operations at the end of 2022, Keeneland – like many other North American race tracks – begin using the E-GPS System from Equibase Company.

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June 24: Keeneland announces the Oct. 31 retirement of Keeneland Library Director Becky Ryder, who will be succeeded by former Head Librarian Roda Ferraro.

July: Hunter Stout joins Keeneland’s executive leadership team as Chief Financial Officer.

Sept. 7: Grand opening of Caesars Sportsbook at Red Mile Gaming & Racing, marking the start of sports betting in Kentucky. Sports betting in the Commonwealth became legal March 31 when Gov. Andy Beshear signed enabling legislation. Keeneland and Red Mile later entered into an agreement with Caesar’s Sportsbook to offer mobile sports betting in Kentucky and to operate Central Kentucky’s retail sportsbook at Red Mile. Keeneland does not have an on-site sports betting facility; players may go to Red Mile to wager in person or wager online with the Caesars Sportsbook App.

Oct. 6-28: Fall Meet offers 22 stakes worth $9.05 million – a record for a Keeneland race meet. The amount includes $1.5 million from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund.

Oct. 18: Keeneland announces plans for a major capital investment project highlighted by the construction of a permanent Paddock Building and a reimagined saddling experience (page 4). Plans also call for a two-story operations building to be constructed within walking distance of the race track. The new facility will enable Keeneland to consolidate core business and operations teams under one roof in an updated work environment.

2024

January: Keeneland’s Entertainment Center is reconfigured with work and meeting space to accommodate more than 60 full- and part-time employees whose offices formerly were located in the Administrative Offices, where the new Paddock Building is being constructed. Employees begin using the new space following the January Horses of All Ages Sale.

March 5: Owner-breeder Louis Lee Haggin III, known for his commitment to Keeneland and to a multitude of Central Kentucky causes, dies at age 88. Haggin was the great-grandson of legendary horseman and entrepreneur James Ben Ali Haggin and the grandson of Keeneland co-founder and first President Hal Price Headley. His father was Keeneland’s third president, and his mother, Alma Headley Haggin, was instrumental in creating Keeneland’s sophisticated interiors and parklike grounds. Haggin became a Keeneland Director in 1971 and was a Trustee from 1980-

2015. Among his many contributions, Haggin conceived of the alley of maples that lines the drive to the Keeneland Clubhouse and the planting of forsythias that ring the race track. He also was involved in the development of the Keeneland nursery, where plants are raised and used as replacements.

April 5-26: Keeneland awards season-record $8.1 million for 19 stakes and celebrates the 100th running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) during its 16-day Spring Meet. Purses include $1.5 million from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund. Sierra Leone wins the milestone Toyota Blue Grass and next runs second by a nose in the Kentucky Derby (G1) Presented by Woodford Reserve. All-sources wagering on the Toyota Blue Grass card is a record $29,261,346. Sierra Leone will win the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and be named the year’s champion 3-year-old male.

Sept. 9-21: The September Yearling Sale posts total sales through the ring of $411,749,500 to be the highest-grossing Thoroughbred auction in the world. The average of $150,548 is a September Sale record, while the median of $70,000 equals the record for the auction. A total of 36 yearlings sell for $1 million or more for the most since 2005. A colt by Curlin sells for $5 million – the highest price for a colt at the auction since 2006 and the highest for a horse sold at public auction during the year in North America.

Oct. 4-26: The 17-day Fall Meet posts seasonrecord all-sources wagering of $210 million, which is boosted by record purse money of $9.85 million for 22 stakes. (The previous season record of nearly $209 million was set during the 2022 Fall Meet.) Keeneland increases the purse of the Coolmore Turf Mile (G1) to $1.25 million, making it the richest race in track history. Brad Cox wins a meet record six stakes.

Oct. 30: The inaugural Keeneland Championship Sale is held in the Paddock at Del Mar two days before the track hosts the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. A stallion share in Horse of the Year and sire Flightline, whose first foals arrived earlier that year, sells for $2.5 million to Jane Lyons’ Summer Wind Equine to top the sale. The event offers the opportunity to acquire highvalue racehorses and breeding stock, featuring a large crowd of participants, spirited bidding and a party atmosphere.

2025

Jan. 23: James E. “Ted” Bassett III, who led Keeneland through historic expansion and established its position internationally as a premier race track and auction house during his 38-year tenure as President, Chairman and Trustee, dies at his home in Lexington. He was 103. Affectionately known as “Mr. B.,” Mr. Bassett devoted his life to bettering the global Thoroughbred industry and his beloved Central Kentucky community, and his engaging demeanor and graciousness endeared him to everyone he met.

April 4-6: Originally scheduled opening weekend of the Spring Meet. However, severe storms and flooding rainfall in the region force track officials to reschedule two days of the start of the season. The meet begins Sunday, April 6, The Friday, April 4 races move to Monday, April 7. The Saturday, April 5 races, including the Toyota Blue Grass (G1), move to Tuesday, April 8. The Spring Meet begins with eight consecutive days of racing.

April 6-25: Keeneland awards a season record $9.4 million for 19 stakes during the Spring Meet. The purse of the Toyota Blue Grass (G1) is increased $250,000 to $1.25 million to join the Fall Meet’s Coolmore Turf Mile (G1) as the richest races in track history. Contributing to the purses is $2.25 million from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF). Total purses of $21 million are a season record; average daily purses of $1.3 million are a Keeneland record.

March 10: Keeneland announces that Amy Gregory, the longtime Director of Communications, is retiring effective May 30. Gregory joined Keeneland as Media Relations Manager in 2006 and was named Director of Communications in 2013.

May 8: Keeneland and Stable Recovery, a groundbreaking peer-driven program that offers recovering addicts the opportunity to learn skills needed to find meaningful employment in the Thoroughbred industry, announce they

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are teaming to launch a dedicated Maintenance Cohort at Keeneland (see page 7).

May 28: Keeneland is selected to host the 2026 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The 2026 running will mark the fourth time that Keeneland has held the event following 2015, 2020 and 2022.

June 28: Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas dies at his home in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 89. Lukas won a record 16 titles as Keeneland’s leading trainer and once held the record for victories and stakes wins at the track. He has 296 wins and 51 stakes wins here. Other marks: four Eclipse Awards as North America’s outstanding trainer; 14 years as national earnings leader; 26 individual Thoroughbred champions, including three Horses of the Year; and wins in the Kentucky Derby (four), the Preakness (seven), the Belmont (four) and the Breeders’ Cup World Championships (20). Lukas purchased a number of yearlings at Keeneland who became successful racehorses while he influenced yearling auctions and dominated races from coast to coast.

July 24: Keeneland names Gabby Gaudet the new Director of Communications. She joins Keeneland from FanDuel TV, where she has been a lead racing analyst and reporter since 2019.

Sept. 8-20: The 12-session September Yearling Sale sold 3,078 horses for a total of $531.7 million: the highest gross ever realized at a Thoroughbred auction worldwide. The auction had $510,544,900 in through-thering sales plus $21,199,500 in post sales. The combined figure tops the previous record gross of $428 million from 2024.

Oct. 3-25: The 17-day Fall Meet marked the debut of centrally located saddling stalls and Saddling Paddock enhancements; new Jockeys Quarters located beneath the Paddock Building; enhanced East Entrance and East Plaza; and new Stakes Winner’s Circle (formerly the Walking Ring) where stakeswinning horses and their connections gather for post-race photographs before race fans. The meet, which offered a track-record $10.85 million for 22 stakes, posted a season-record $217 million in all-sources wagering.

Oct. 25: Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna appears in the Paddock and on track during the races so fans can celebrate the popular racehorse. Thorpedo Anna was retired following an off-the-board finish here in the Juddmonte Spinster (G1) on Oct. 5.

2026

April 3: First day of the Spring Meet and public opening of the Paddock Building.

Oct. 30-31: Keeneland will host the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

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2026

Keeneland

Race Dates

Spring Meet | April 3-24

Fall Meet | Oct. 2-24

Breeders’ Cup World Championships | Oct. 30-31

In the early 1930s, Keeneland’s founders set about to create a special race track in Central Kentucky. Their vision, as outlined in the track’s original prospectus, was “to create a model race track to perpetuate and improve the sport and to provide a course that is intended to serve as a symbol of the fine traditions of Thoroughbred racing.”

Since its first meet in October 1936, Keeneland has continued to strive for excellence in its racing program, which perennially ranks among the nation’s best in terms of purse money, field size and quality of racing. Recent notable events include:

• Keeneland presented its first million-dollar race, the Shadwell Turf Mile (G1), on Oct. 4, 2014. The winner was Keeneland-based twotime Horse of the Year Wise Dan. In 2022, Coolmore became the new sponsor of the prestigious race, which again was worth $1 million. Keeneland increased the purse of the 2024 running to $1.25 million, making the Coolmore Turf Mile the richest race in track history.

• In 2015, the Toyota Blue Grass (G1) –Keeneland’s signature race for 3-year-olds – became a million-dollar race and moved to opening Saturday of the Spring Meet. The race was worth seven figures until 2019 and was restored to the amount in 2022. Keeneland increased the purse of the 101st running in 2025 to $1.25 million to equal the Coolmore Turf Mile as the richest races in track history.

• On Oct. 30-31, 2015, Keeneland for the first time hosted the Breeders’ Cup World Championships (see page 10). One goal of hosting the event was to enhance the quality of horses racing here during the Spring and Fall Meets. The success of the Breeders’ Cup heightened enthusiasm for Keeneland racing as horsemen from across the nation and around the globe experienced the track’s world-class facilities and lucrative racing program for the first time.

• The Breeders’ Cup returned to Keeneland on Nov. 6-7, 2020, and Nov. 4-5, 2022 (see page 10) and will be held for a fourth time here on Oct. 30-31.

• In 2022, the Central Bank Ashland (G1) moved to opening day of the Spring Meet to showcase the event, the first Grade 1 race of the year for 3-year-old fillies. The purse of the 2025 running increased to a record $750,000.

Spring Excitement

“Keeneland’s Spring Meet is the destination of many of Thoroughbred racing’s biggest names,” Keeneland Vice President of Racing Gatewood Bell said. “The racing world converges here because they know this is where the best jockeys, trainers and horses will be, and they want to compete at the highest level. We are excited to continue to grow our racing program and eager to welcome horsemen and fans from around the world for Keeneland this spring.”

The Spring Meet’s two classic preps, the Toyota Blue Grass and the Central Bank Ashland, both are worth 200 points to the winners on the Road to the Kentucky Derby and Road to the Kentucky Oaks, respectively. The winners of each stakes will earn 100 qualifying points to the respective classic.

Since 1936, 19 horses have used the Blue Grass as a steppingstone to victory in the Derby, most recently Unbridled (1990), Strike the Gold (1991), Sea Hero (1993), Thunder Gulch (1995) and Street Sense (2007). Sierra Leone, who won the 100th running of the race in 2024, finished second in the Derby and ended the season by capturing the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). He received the Eclipse Award as champion 3-yearold male.

Opening day of the Spring Meet features the Central Bank Ashland, a premier race for 3-year-old fillies. Thirty-five fillies have won the Kentucky Oaks off a start in the Ashland, including Malathaat (2021), Monomoy Girl (2018), Cathryn Sophia (2016) and Lovely Maria (2015). (Malathaat and Monomoy Girl went on to earn Eclipse Awards as champion 3-year-old filly.) These classic winners join such standouts as Oaks-Ashland winners Silverbulletday, Princess Rooney, Blush With Pride, Optimistic Gal and Real Delight.

Other Grade 1 races during the Spring Meet are the Resolute Racing Madison, the Maker’s Mark Mile and the Jenny Wiley. Each race is worth $650,000.

This year, Keeneland will award a Spring Meet record $9.55 million for 19 stakes to be run during 15 days of racing. Contributing to the stakes purses is a total of $2.25 million from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF).

Fall Excellence

In October, Keeneland’s signature Fall Stars Weekend is an exciting kick-off to the Fall Meet, when 11 stakes are contested opening weekend. Five of those races are Grade 1 events: the Darley Alcibiades, the Coolmore Turf Mile, the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity, the First Lady and the Juddmonte Spinster.

The season’s sixth Grade 1 stakes is the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Dixiana, an internationally renowned invitational for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on the turf.

Media Coverage: We’re Here to Assist You

Keeneland strives to facilitate media coverage of its race meets and sales.

Extensive information about Keeneland is found on its website, Keeneland.com, which livestreams the track’s Spring and Fall race meets and annual Thoroughbred auctions.

During race meets, Keeneland produces:

• Daily Barn Notes with news about upcoming stakes, horses and horsemen competing here, milestones, special events and other articles of interest; and

• Coverage of the day’s feature race(s) and quotes from connections of horses participating in stakes.

For its auctions, wrap releases are distributed at the conclusion of each auction session. Via its PhotoShelter site, Keeneland makes select photos and video from race days and sales available for editorial purposes. Information about accessing the PhotoShelter site is available by contacting the Communications Staff.

If you would like to receive Keeneland press materials via email or have any questions, please contact Director of Communications Gabby Gaudet (ggaudet@keeneland.com), Communications Manager Meredith Daughtery or Communications Associate Amy Owens (aowens@keeneland.com).

At the 2025 Fall Meet, purses for 22 stakes were a track record $10.85 million, and allsources handle reached a season record $217 million.

Meanwhile, Keeneland fans saw two eventual Breeders’ Cup winners: Ted Noffey, who won the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity and next captured the Juvenile to earn the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old male; and Distaff winner Scylla, who was third in the Juddmonte Spinster.

With their success, the winners of 67 Breeders’ Cup races have made their final starts before the World Championships during Keeneland’s Fall Meet (see page 294).

Historic Vision

That Keeneland is such a special place is no accident. Grand thinking by Jack Keene, coupled with the shared aspirations of a group of prominent horsemen – most notably Hal Price Headley and Maj. Louie Beard – led to Keeneland’s creation.

With the demise of the Kentucky Association track near downtown Lexington in 1933, these and other horsemen faced a dilemma: For the first time in more than 100 years the city was without a race track. Concerned citizens began

Fans will see many Breeders’ Cup-bound stars prep at Keeneland as a prelude to the World Championships. Eight Breeders’ Cup Challenge stakes are run Fall Stars Weekend: the Darley Alcibiades (Challenge race for the Juvenile Fillies-G1), the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix-G2 (Sprint-G1) and the Jessamine (G2) Presented by Keeneland Sales (Juvenile Fillies Turf-G1) on Friday; the Coolmore Turf Mile (Mile-G1), the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (Juvenile-G1) and the Thoroughbred Club of America (Filly and Mare Sprint-G1) on Saturday; and the Juddmonte Spinster (Distaff-G1) and the Castle & Key Bourbon-G2 (Juvenile Turf-G1) on Sunday.

meeting in 1934 after determining it wasn’t feasible to reopen the shuttered track. From among 20 locations, they selected Jack Keene’s property, primarily because Keene was willing to part with the property for much less than its fair market value. Plus, the site included a mile-anda-furlong private track, combination stone castle and barn, a 100,000-gallon water tank, a roadway and land for future stables and parking.

The facility, while a good start, still required much work. Headley, Beard and others worked feverishly around the clock, and a mere 15 months later, Keeneland opened its gates. It was managed by the Keeneland Association, which consisted of a team of volunteers under the direction of Beard and Headley, Keeneland’s first President.

On opening day, more than 8,000 fans came to the races — ranging from locals who simply wanted to see racing in their hometown for the first time in years to titans of business who brought their best bloodstock to compete. By the end of the nine-day meet, Keeneland had scraped by, losing just $3.47 in its first year. Lexington, a town of 46,000, had supported racing’s comeback as the meet posted attendance of 25,337. And even with 15 million Americans out of work, those fans had taken a gamble or two, wagering more than $500,000.

As Headley said, “We want a place where those who love horses can come and picnic with us and thrill to the sport of the Bluegrass. We are not running a race plant to hear the click of the mutuel machines. We want them to come out here to enjoy God’s sunshine, fresh air and to watch horses race.”

Fri., April 3

2026 Keeneland Stakes Schedule

Spring Meet – April 3-24 (15 days)

Bank Ashland (G1), 3yo fillies

(G2), 3yo

April 11

Lexington (G3), 3yo

Sun., April 12 Giant’s Causeway (G2) Presented by

3yo & up, f&m

April 17 Baird Doubledogdare (G2), 4yo &

April 24 Bewitch (G3), Presented by Keeneland Sales, 4yo &

Fall Meet – Oct. 2-24 (17 days) (tentative)

Fri., Oct. 2 * Darley Alcibiades (G1), 2yo fillies

(G2)

Sat., Oct. 3

First Lady (G1), 3yo & up, f&m

* Thoroughbred Club of America (G2), 3yo & up, f&m

Woodford (G2) Presented by FanDuel, 3yo & up

Sun., Oct. 4 * Juddmonte Spinster (G1), 3yo & up, f&m

* Castle & Key Bourbon (G2), 2yo

Indian Summer (G3) Presented by Keeneland Select, 2yo

Oct. 9 Sycamore (G2), 3yo & up

Sat., Oct. 10 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana, 3yo fillies, by invitation

Sun., Oct. 11 Franklin (G2), 3yo & up, f&m

Sat., Oct. 17 Lexus Raven Run (G2), 3yo fillies

Perryville (G3), 3yo

Sun., Oct. 18 Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3), 3yo & up, f&m

Fri., Oct. 23 Bank of America Valley View (G2), 3yo fillies

Dean Dorton Myrtlewood (Listed), 2yo fillies

Sat., Oct. 24 Bryan Station (G2), 3yo

Hagyard Fayette (G3), 3yo & up

Bowman Mill, 2yo

* Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races

(turf)

(turf) $600,000

All-Time Leading Owners, Trainers, Jockeys through 2025 Fall Meet

All Races

Rank Wins Owner

1. 249 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2. 200 * Farish, William S.

3. 171 * Grissom, T.A. (and J.E. Grissom)

4. 165 * Claiborne Farm

5. 152 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

6. 146 * Humphrey Jr., G. Watts

7. 141** Calumet Farm

8. 133 * Dixiana (Mary V. Fisher)

9. 121 * Overbrook Farm (includes W.T. Young Jr. and partners)

10. 118 Whitney, C.V.

11. 109 Oxley, John C.

12. 108 Headley, Hal Price

13. 90 Greentree Stable

* Includes partnerships.

** Does not include Calumet Farm when owned by Henryk de Kwiatkowski or Brad Kelley.

All Races

Rank Wins Trainer

1. 309 Arnold II, George R.

2. 308 Mott, William I.

3. 296 Lukas, D. Wayne

4. 290 Ward, Wesley A.

5. 288 Pletcher, Todd A.

6. 287 McPeek, Kenneth G.

7. 257 Maker, Michael J.

8. 194 Cox, Brad H.

9. 187 Asmussen, Steven M.

10. 173 McGaughey III, Claude R.

11. 167 Motion, H. Graham

12. 166 Howard, Neil J.

13. 160 Davis Jr., Doug M.

14. 159 Romans, Dale L.

15. 156 Nafzger, Carl A.

16. 155 Stevens Sr., Thomas H.

17. 153 Forrest, Henry

18. 143 Vanier, Harvey L.

19. 141 Zito, Nicholas P.

20. 140 Brown, Chad C.

21. 139 Bollero, Joseph M.

22. 138 Casse, Mark E. 138 Smith, Dewey

24. 137 Stevens, Herbert K.

25. 132 Brothers, Frank L.

All Races

Rank Wins Jockey

1. 918 Day, Pat

2. 716 Brumfield, Don

3. 526 Albarado, Robby

4. 518 Leparoux, Julien

5. 412 Sellers, Shane

6. 290 Lanerie, Corey

7. 277 Velazquez, John

8. 264 Fires, Earlie

9. 263 Gaffalione, Tyler

10. 247 Bailey, Jerry 247 Romero, Randy

12. 245 Perret, Craig

13. 237 Hernandez Jr., Brian J.

14. 233 Brooks, Steve

15. 231 Saez, Luis

16. 225 Graham, James

17. 217 Rosario, Joel

Does not include races run during Keeneland meetings at Churchill Downs in 1943, 1944 and 1945.

Owners

Stakes Races

Rank Wins Owner

1. 27 * Claiborne Farm

2. 26 Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

3. 24 * Farish, William S.

4. 23 Juddmonte (Khalid Abdullah/Fahad bin Khalid)

5. 20 Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.) 20 ** Calumet Farm

7. 16 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

8. 14 * Humphrey, G. Watts

9. 13 * Dubb, Michael 13 * Overbrook Farm

Paulson, Allen E. (includes Living Trust)

Shadwell

Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

Oxley, John C.

Trainers

Stakes Races

Rank Wins Trainer

1. 75 Pletcher, Todd A.

2. 52 Mott, William I.

3. 51 Brown, Chad C.

51 Lukas, D. Wayne

5. 40 Motion, H. Graham

6. 39 Cox, Brad H.

7. 35 McPeek, Kenneth G.

8. 32 Casse, Mark E.

32 Ward, Wesley A.

10. 28 McGaughey III, Claude R.

11. 25 Arnold II, George R.

12. 22 Walden, W. Elliott

13. 21 Frankel, Robert J.

14. 20 Howard, Neil J.

15. 19 Nafzger, Carl A.

19 Stephens, Woodford C.

17. 18 Attfield, Roger L.

18 Romans, Dale L. 18 Sheppard, Jonathan E.

20. 17 Clement, Christophe

21. 16 Baffert, Bob A. 16 Maker, Michael J. 16 Zito, Nicholas P.

24. 15 Asmussen, Steven M.

25. 14 Trotsek, Harry

Jockeys

Stakes Races

Rank Wins Jockey

1. 95 Day, Pat

2. 71 Velazquez, John

3. 67 Leparoux, Julien

4. 54 Bailey, Jerry 54 Castellano, Javier

6. 53 Albarado, Robby 53 Sellers, Shane

8. 44 Prado, Edgar

9. 42 Rosario, Joel

10. 35 Gaffalione, Tyler

11. 34 Geroux, Florent

12. 33 Ortiz Jr., Irad

13. 32 Brumfield, Don

32 Perret, Craig

15. 30 Smith, Mike

16. 29 Saez, Luis

17. 25 Desormeaux, Kent

18. 24 Gomez, Garrett 24 Romero, Randy

Includes Keeneland stakes races run at Churchill Downs in 1943, 1944 and 1945.

* Includes 2015, 2020 and 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

Meet Titles

Rank Titles Owner

1. 22 Ramsey, Kenneth L. & Sarah K. 2. 14 Grissom, T.A. (includes partnerships with J.E. Grissom)

3. 11 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim) 11 Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young & William T. Young Jr.)

5. 10 * Farish,William S.

6. 9 ** Calumet Farm

7. 8 * Humphrey Jr., G. Watts

8 Whitney, C.V.

9. 7 Headley, Hal Price

10. 6 Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

Meet Titles

Rank Titles Trainer 1. 16 Lukas, D. Wayne 2. 10 Ward, Wesley A. 3. 8 Cox, Brad H.

8 Wright, Vester R. 5. 7 Forrest, Henry 6. 6 Jones, Ben A.

6 Maker, Michael J.

6 McGaughey III, Claude R.

6 Mott, William I.

6 Ott, S. Bryant

6 Smith, Dewey 12. 5 Bollero, Joseph M.

5 McPeek, Kenneth G.

5 Pletcher, Todd A.

5 Zito, Nicholas P.

Meet Titles

Rank Titles Jockey

1. 22 Day, Pat 2. 16 Brumfield, Don 3. 12 Leparoux, Julien 4. 10 Brooks, Steve 5. 8 Gaffalione, Tyler

8 Sellers, Shane

7. 6 Romero, Randy 8. 5 Delahoussaye, Eddie

5 Fires, Earlie

5 Heckmann, John

Wins – One Day

One-Day and Meet Records Owners

Spring Fall

4 Godolphin (4/15/17)

Trainers

Spring Fall

Wins – Meet 25 Michael J. Maker (2013, 16 days) 22 D. Wayne Lukas (1989, 16 days)

Stakes Wins – Meet 4 Ben Jones (1948, 11 days) 6 Brad H. Cox (2024, 17 days)

4 Todd A. Pletcher (2011, 15 days)

4 Chad C. Brown (2018, 16 days)

4 Brad H. Cox (2023, 15 days)

Wins – One Day

4 Kiaran P. McLaughlin (4/15/17)

4 William I. Mott (4/9/95)

4 Todd A. Pletcher (4/19/08)

4 Wesley A. Ward (4/23/21)

Jockeys

Spring Fall

Wins – Meet 38 Joel Rosario (2013, 16 days) 45 Pat Day (1991, 19 days)

Stakes Wins – Meet 6 Javier Castellano (2019, 16 days) 7 Pat Day (1998, 16 days)

Wins – One Day

6 Jerry Bailey (1999, 15 days) 7 John Velazquez (2025, 17 days)

6 Joel Rosario (2021, 15 days)

6 Craig Perret (4/18/90, 7 mounts) 5 Pat Day (10/19/83, 8 mounts)

6 Randy Romero (4/7/90, 9 mounts) (10/20/84, 8 mounts)

6 Julien Leparoux (4/20/12, 8 mounts) (10/29/87, 9 mounts)

5 Randy Romero (4/21/90, 8 mounts) (10/10/91, 8 mounts)

5 Eddie Delahoussaye (4/28/78, 7 mounts) 5 Randy Romero (10/27/81, 7 mounts)

5 Manuel Ycaza (4/10/63, 7 mounts) 5 Kenny Knapp (10/21/66, 8 mounts)

5 Steve Brooks (4/16/55, 8 mounts) 5 Jon Court (10/28/00, 7 mounts)

5 Willie Martinez (4/10/97, 9 mounts) 5 Rafael Bejarano (10/14/07, 8 mounts)

5 Joel Rosario (4/18/13, 7 mounts) 5 Julien Leparoux (10/21/11, 10 mounts) (4/25/13, 8 mounts) (10/29/11, 9 mounts) (4/3/21, 9 mounts) 5 John Velazquez (10/4/14, 7 mounts)

One-Day Riding Records Details

Six Wins

Five Wins

(10/27/81)

(4/21/90)

John Velazquez*

*Velazquez won three Grade 1 stakes: Shadwell Turf Mile on Wise Dan, Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity on Carpe Diem and First Lady on Dayatthespa.

Spring

2025 5 Calumet Farm (Brad Kelley)

2024 5 Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al); Juddmonte (Fahad Bin Khalid)

2023 6 Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2022 5 Stonestreet Stables (Barbara Banke)

2021 6 Juddmonte (Fahad bin Khalid)

2020 No meet

2019 4 e Five Racing Thoroughbreds (Robert J. Edwards Jr.); Hronis Racing (Kosta Hronis); Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah); Three Diamonds Farm (Kirk Wycoff)

2018 4 Detampel, Marc; Humphrey Jr., G. Watts (includes partners); Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2017 5 Godolphin Racing (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2016 9 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2015 11 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2014 5 Oxley, John C.

2013 25 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2012 7 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2011 10 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2010 3 Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.); Dogwood Stable (W. Cothran Campbell); Humphrey, G. Watts (includes partners); Hunter, Barbara; Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.; Wertheimer et Frere (Alain and Gerard Wertheimer)

2009 6 Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2008 4 Humphrey Jr., G. Watts; Overbrook Farm (William T. Young Jr.)

2007 5 Darley Stable (Mohammed Al Maktoum)

2006 6 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2005 4 Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.); Farish, William S. (includes partners)

Summer

Year Wins Owner

2020 2 OXO Equine (Larry Best); Three Diamonds Farm (Kirk Wycoff); Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

Leading Owners by Meet–Wins

2004 5 Heiligbrodt Racing Stable (L. William Heiligbrodt); Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2003 4 Humphrey Jr., G. Watts; Overbrook Farm (W. T. Young)

2002 7 Sam-Son Farm (Mrs. Elizabeth Samuel)

2001 6 Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2000 5 Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel)

1999 5 Claiborne Farm (Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.)

1998 4 Siegel, Jan, Mace and Samantha

1997 6 Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel)

1996 4 Phipps, Ogden Mills

1995 3 Ostrager, Barry R.; Oxley, John C.; Siegel, Jan, Mace and Samantha 1994 3 Claiborne Farm (Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.); Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young); Shadwell Stable

1993 4 Stronach, Frank

1992 5 Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel)

1991 5 Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel)

1990 5 R.D. Irwin Trust #2 (Donald King)

1989 4 Humphrey Jr., G. Watts

1988 4 Kennelot Stable (Henryk de Kwiatkowski); Stavro, S.A.

1987 5 Farish, W.S.; Russell L. Reineman Stable

1986 4 Cox Jr., E.A.; Johnson, Joan

1985 3 Calumet Farm; Evergreen Farm; Farish, William S.; Maggio, Carl J.

1984 3 Golden Chance Farm; Sherman, Thomas E.

1983 5 Gentry, Tom

1982 4 Farish, William S.

1981 8 Farish, William S.

1980 4 Adams, Andrew; Dorignac Jr., Joseph P.

1979 10 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim) 1978 6 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1977 6 Brown, Mrs. Joe W.; Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim); Whitney, C.V.

1976 6 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1975 7 Dorignac Jr., J.P.; Golden Chance Farm

1974 10 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1973 7 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1972 5 Grissom, T.A. and J.E.

1971 6 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1970 6 Grissom, T.A. and J.E.

1969 10 Grissom. T.A. and J.E.

1968 8 Grissom, T.A. and J.E.

1967 8 Calumet Farm

1966 11 Grissom, T.A.

1965 5 Lehmann, Robert

1964 3 Grant, Hugh A.; Stone, J.H.; Winganeek Stable

1963 5 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1962 7 Grissom, T.A.

1961 6 Grissom, T.A.

1960 8 Whitney, C.V.

1959 6 Grissom, T.A.

1958 5 Grissom, T.A.

1957 5 Grissom, T.A.

1956 8 Grissom, T.A.

1955 5 Wilson Jr., Sam E.

1954 9 G & G Stable

1953 4 Calumet Farm

1952 6 Whitney, C.V.

1951 5 Denemark, Mrs. Emil

1950 4 Brown Hotel Stable; Whitney, C.V.

1949 7 Headley, Hal Price

1948 6 Calumet Farm

1947 8 Calumet Farm

1946 7 Headley, Hal Price

1942 6 Widener, J.E.

1941 12 Calumet Farm

1940 8 Calumet Farm

1939 5 Greentree Stable; Widener, J.E.

1938 8 Headley, Hal Price

1937 7 Headley, Hal Price; Valdina Farm

Fall

2025 6 Spendthrift Farm (Eric P. Gustavson) Maktoum et al)

2024 4 Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2023 4 Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al); Rigney Racing (Richard Rigney)

2022 4 West, Gary and Mary

2021 4 Calumet Farm (Brad Kelley); Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2020 5 M and M Racing (Mike Sisk)

2019 4 Hill, Susan and Jim; Lothenbach Stables (Robert J. Lothenbach)

2018 6 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2017 7 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2016 9 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2015 7 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2014 9 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2013 17 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2012 12 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2011 7 Humphrey Jr., G. Watts

2010 6 Augustin Stables (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2009 5 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2008 8 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2007 6 Overbrook Farm (William T. Young Jr.); Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

2006 6 Humphrey Jr., G. Watts (includes partners)

2005 5 Farish, William S. (includes partners)

2004 7 Humphrey Jr., G. Watts and partners

2003 6 WinStar Farm LLC (Bill Casner et al)

2002 4 Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.; WinStar Farm LLC (Bill Casner et al)

2001 5 McKee Stables (Ronald E. McKee)

2000 4 Oxley, John C.; Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K.

1999 5 Claiborne Farm (Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.)

Leading Owners by Meet–Wins

1998 5 Stronach Stable (Elfreide Stronach)

1997 7 Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young)

1996 5 Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young)

1995 10 Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young)

1994 4 Overbrook Farm; Oxley, John C.

1993 4 Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young)

1992 5 Darley Stud Management (Mohammed Al Maktoum)

1991 3 Chandler, John A.; Dogwood Stable (W. Cothran Campbell); Fisher, Susan B.; Lazy Lane Farms (Joe L. Allbritton); Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young); Oxley, John C.; Saron Stable (Mrs. Corbin J. Robertson); Wimborne Farm (Diane Perkins)

1990 3 Calumet Farm (J.T. Lundy, lessee); Farish, W. S.; Kirk, Ronald K.; Lazy Lane Farms (Joseph Allbritton); Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young); Russell, Mrs. W.E.

1989 4 Paulson, Allen E.

1988 3 Bell III, John A.; Farish, William S.; Firestone, Mrs. Bertram R.; Klein, Eugene V.

1987 6 Loblolly Stable

1986 8 Farish, William S.

1985 5 Farish, William S.

1984 4 Farish, William S.; Hawksworth Farm

1983 3 Double Eagle Stable

1982 4 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1981 7 Reineman Stable, Russell L.

1980 8 Reineman Stable, Russell L.

1979 5 Brown, Mrs. Joe W.; Cox Jr., E.A.

1978 5 Lehmann, Robert N.

1977 6 Golden Chance Farm; Grissom, T.A. and J.E.

1976 6 Golden Chance Farm

1975 10 Audley Farm Stable

1974 10 Audley Farm Stable

1973 9 Audley Farm Stable

1972 4 Fawcett Jr., G.W.; Whitney, C.V.

1971 7 Dorignac Jr., J.P.

1970 4 Shouse, John T.

1969 3 Dixiana; Ford, Donald G.; Greentree Stable; Stall, A.M. and A.H.; Whitney, C.V.

1968 12 Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F.

1967 4 Whitney, C.V.

1966 6 Circle M Farm

1965 6 Lehmann, Robert

1964 6 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1963 5 Drake, E. Gay

1962 4 Darby Dan Farm

1961 5 Bwamazon Farm (Millard Waldheim)

1960 5 Grissom, T.A.

1959 4 Fisher, Mary V.

1958 5 Brown, J. Graham; Reverie Knoll Farm

1957 6 Reverie Knoll Farm

1956 6 Claiborne Farm

1955 4 Reverie Knoll Farm

1954 3 Brookmeade Stable; Elizalde, I.; Forrest, Henry; Grissom, T.A.; Mooers, Clifford; Reverie Knoll Farm

1953 5 Reverie Knoll Farm

1952 5 Whitney, C.V.

1951 5 Dixiana

1950 5 Dixiana

1949 3 Bowles, Mr. & Mrs. C.F.; Brown Hotel Stable

1948 5 Wickham, W.M.

1947 5 Dixiana; Headley, Hal Price

1946 6 Circle M Farm

1942 6 Greentree Stable

1941 6 Greentree Stable; Piatt, Thomas 1940 7 Calumet Farm

1939 7 Mayer, L.B.

1938 6 Haughton, Mrs. Ed

1937 7 Headley, Hal Price

1936 6 Headley, Hal Price

Does not include Spring Meets of 1943-1945, which were held at Churchill Downs. No Fall Meets were conducted in 1943-1945. Boldface indicates meet record.

Leading Trainers by Meet–Wins

Spring

Year Wins Trainer Year Wins Trainer

2025 10 Cox, Brad H.: Walsh, Brendan P.

2024 12 Ward, Wesley A.

2023 12 Ward, Wesley A.

2022 13 Ward, Wesley A.

2021 20 Ward, Wesley A.

2020 No meet

2019 11 Ward, Wesley A.

2018 13 Cox, Brad H.; Ward, Wesley A.

2017 11 Ward, Wesley A.

2016 13 Maker, Michael J.

2015 10 Pletcher, Todd A.

2014 11 Casse, Mark E.

2013 25 Maker, Michael J.

2012 9 Ward, Wesley A.

2011 14 McPeek, Kenneth G.

2010 9 Clement, Christophe

2009 7 Mott, William I.

2008 14 Pletcher, Todd A.

2007 12 Biancone, Patrick

2006 12 Zito, Nicholas P.

2005 16 Pletcher, Todd A.

2004 9 Asmussen, Steven M.

2003 9 Lukas, D. Wayne

2002 11 Lukas, D. Wayne

2001 7 Mott, William I.

2000 9 Stewart, Dallas

1999 14 Brothers, Frank L.

1998 9 Lukas, D. Wayne

1997 10 Zito, Nicholas P.

1996 9 McGaughey III, Claude R.

1995 7 Mott, William I.

Summer

Year Wins Trainer

2020 5 Ward, Wesley A. Wilkes, Ian R.

1994 7 Howard, Neil; Lukas, D. Wayne

1993 5 McGaughey III, Claude R.

1992 8 Lukas, D. Wayne

1991 7 Lukas, D. Wayne

1990 10 Pierce Jr., Joseph H.

1989 8 Pierce Jr., Joseph H.; Lukas, D. Wayne

1988 7 Skiffington, Thomas J.

1987 7 Vanier, Harvey

1986 13 Arnold II, George

1985 9 Arnold II, George

1984 7 McGaughey III, Claude R.

1983 7 Rieser, Stanley

1982 10 Carroll, Del W.

1981 9 Carroll, Del W.

1980 6 Kassen, David; McClain, Ted

1979 10 Basile, Anthony

1978 8 Adams, William E.

1977 7 Bollero, Joseph M.

1976 7 Davis Jr., Doug; Kassen, Dave

1975 8 Adams, William E.

1974 10 Basile, Anthony

1973 10 Stevens Sr., Thomas H.

1972 10 Davis Jr., Doug

1971 7 Poole, George T.

1970 8 Poole, George T.

1969 10 Smith, Dewey

1968 8 Smith, Dewey

1967 8 Forrest, Henry

1966 11 Smith, Dewey

1965 9 Proctor, Willard L.

1964 9 Ott, S. Bryant

1963 5 Cundall, Frank; Noe, Kenny; Ott, S. Bryant; Poole, George T.

1962 7 Wright, Vester R.

1961 10 Wright, Vester R.

1960 5 Clelland, Odie; Davis Jr., Doug; Forrest, Henry; Glazier, C.D.; Hodgins, Jack C.; Jones, H.A.; Wright, Vester R.

1959 7 Wright, Vester R.

1958 8 Wright, Vester R.

1957 9 Wright, Vester R.

1956 9 Wright, Vester R.

1955 5 Zoeller, John

1954 10 Wright, Vester R.

1953 4 Forrest, Henry; Gilpin, Frank; Jones, Ben A.; Ryan, E.B.

1952 6 Veitch, Syl E.

1951 5 McGarvey, Robert

1950 5 Womeldorff, Dave

1949 7 Barnett, Frank

1948 6 Jones, Ben A.

1947 8 Jones, Ben A.

1946 8 Cotton, E.L.

1942 6 Steward, D.E.

1941 12 Jones, Ben A.

1940 8 Jones, Ben A.

1939 6 McGarvey, Robert

1938 8 Headley, Duval A.

1937 7 Flanigan, J.J.; Headley, Duval A.

Does not include Spring Meets of 1943-1945, which were held at Churchill Downs. No Fall Meets were conducted in 1943-1945. Boldface indicates meet record. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keeneland did not hold a 2020 Spring Meet but conducted a five-day Summer Meet from July 8-12

Fall

2025 12 Cox, Brad H.

2024 14 Cox, Brad H.

2023 13 Cox, Brad H.

2022 11 Cox, Brad H.

2021 14 Cox, Brad H.

2020 15 Cox, Brad H.

2019 8 Maker, Michael J.

2018 9 Pletcher, Todd A.

2017 13 Maker, Michael J.

2016 13 Casse, Mark E.

2015 9 Asmussen, Steven M.; Casse, Mark E.; McPeek, Kenneth G.

2014 8 Motion, H. Graham; Pletcher, Todd A.

2013 17 Maker, Michael J.

2012 12 Ward, Wesley A.

2011 10 McPeek, Kenneth G.

2010 10 McPeek, Kenneth G.

2009 17 McPeek, Kenneth G.

2008 9 Maker, Michael J.

2007 9 Mott, William I.

2006 11 Biancone, Patrick

2005 9 Zito, Nicholas P.

2004 11 Asmussen, Steven M.; Zito, Nicholas P.

2003 11 Zito, Nicholas P.

2002 8 Romans, Dale

2001 13 Romans, Dale

2000 5 Flint, Bernard S.; Walden, W. Elliott; Ward Jr., John T.

1999 10 Walden, W. Elliott

1998 10 Wiggins, Hal R.

Leading Trainers by Meet–Wins

1997 9 Lukas, D. Wayne

1996 7 Lukas, D. Wayne

1995 17 Lukas, D. Wayne

1994 10 Lukas, D. Wayne; Nafzger, Carl

1993 11 Lukas, D. Wayne

1992 9 Vestal, Peter M.

1991 16 Lukas, D. Wayne

1990 10 Lukas, D. Wayne

1989 22 Lukas, D. Wayne

1988 10 Lukas, D. Wayne

1987 10 Arnold II, George R.

1986 13 Mott, William I.

1985 11 McGaughey III, Claude R.

1984 7 McGaughey III, Claude R.

1983 11 McGaughey III, Claude R.

1982 9 Bollero, Joseph M.

1981 7 Carroll, Del W.; Mott, William I.

1980 9 Bollero, Joseph M.

1979 11 Bollero, Joseph M.

1978 9 Adams, William E.

1977 9 Adams, William E.; Bollero, Joseph M.

1976 9 Van Berg, Jack

1975 8 Smith, Dewey

1974 10 Smith, Dewey

1973 9 Smith, Dewey

1972 10 Kelley, Tom W.

1971 7 Cowden Jr., James R.

1970 9 Stevens, Herbert K.

1969 5 Davis Jr., Doug; Poole, George T. ; Rieser, Stanley M.; Rosenthal, M.J.; Stevens, Herbert K.; Stevens Sr., Thomas H.

1968 16 Warren, Ronnie

1967 5 Hirsch, W.J.; Mitchell, Claude R.

1966 6 Forrest, Henry; Long, Jack

1965 7 Proctor, Willard L.

1964 6 Cundall, Frank

1963 6 Forrest, Henry; Ott, S. Bryant; Stevens, Herbert K.

1962 7 Ott, S. Bryant

1961 5 Baker, G.M.; Greely Jr., J.J.; Ott, S. Bryant

1960 7 Jolley, Moody

1959 7 Hodgins, Jack C.

1958 9 Bowles, C.F.

1957 8 Sanders, Frank

1956 9 Ott, S. Bryant

1955 4 Greely Jr., J.J.; Sanders, Frank 1954 6 Forrest, Henry

1953 5 Sanders, Frank

1952 6 Thompson, Larry

1951 6 Wells, Howard

1950 5 Creech, Benny; Hodgins, Jack C.

1949 8 Trotsek, Harry

1948 6 Crump, Willie; Forrest, Henry

1947 5 Cotton, E.L.; Hodgins, Jack C.; Parke, I.H.

1946 6 William, B.B.

1942 6 Higdon, Ross

1941 8 Letellier, Frank

1940 7 Jones, Ben A.

1939 7 Judge, Steve

1938 6 Haughton, Ed

1937 7 Headley, Duval A.

1936 6 Headley, Duval A.

Does not include Spring Meets of 1943-1945, which were held at Churchill Downs. No Fall Meets were conducted in 1943-1945. Boldface indicates meet record. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keeneland did not hold a 2020 Spring Meet but conducted a five-day Summer Meet from July 8-12.

Spring

Year Wins Jockey

2025 20 Prat, Flavien

2024 20 Ortiz Jr., Irad

2023 21 Gaffalione, Tyler

2022 19 Gaffalione, Tyler

2021 29 Saez, Luis

2020 No meet

2019 15 Geroux, Florent

2018 20 Geroux, Florent

2017 17 Rosario, Joel

2016 17 Castellano, Javier

2015 22 Castellano, Javier

2014 19 Leparoux, Julien

2013 38 Rosario, Joel

2012 23 Leparoux, Julien

2011 19 Leparoux, Julien

2010 22 Gomez, Garrett

2009 27 Leparoux, Julien

2008 22 Desormeaux, Kent

2007 22 Leparoux, Julien

2006 17 Bejarano, Rafael; * Leparoux, Julien

2005 21 Velazquez, John

2004 21 Day, Pat

2003 17 Albarado, Robby

2002 26 Albarado, Robby

2001 22 Day, Pat

2000 18 Day, Pat

1999 29 Sellers, Shane

1998 15 Sellers, Shane

1997 23 Martinez, Willie

* Apprentice

Summer

Year Wins Jockey

2020 7 Gaffalione, Tyler

Fall

Year Wins Jockey

2025 25 Ortiz Jr., Irad

2024 24 Gaffalione, Tyler

2023 25 Gaffalione, Tyler

2022 21 Saez, Luis

2021 29 Gaffalione, Tyler

2020 24 Gaffalione, Tyler

2019 19 Leparoux, Julien

2018 15 Gaffalione, Tyler

2017 20 Santana Jr., Ricardo

2016 21 Leparoux, Julien

2015 25 Lanerie, Corey

2014 16 Napravnik, Rosie

2013 17 Napravnik, Rosie

2012 26 Leparoux, Julien

2011 33 Leparoux, Julien

2010 27 Leparoux, Julien

2009 26 Albarado, Robby

2008 22 Albarado, Robby

2007 21 Bejarano, Rafael

2006 30 Leparoux, Julien

2005 30 Bejarano, Rafael

2004 26 Bejarano, Rafael

2003 21 Day, Pat

2002 24 Day, Pat

2001 25 Day, Pat

2000 26 Day, Pat

1999 19 Day, Pat

1998 31 Day, Pat

1997 30 Sellers, Shane

1996 25 Day, Pat

1995 19 Sellers, Shane

Leading Jockeys by Meet–Wins

Year Wins Jockey

1996 18 Sellers, Shane

1995 18 Sellers, Shane

1994 21 Smith, Mike

1993 26 Sellers, Shane

1992 18 Bailey, Jerry

1991 26 Black, Corey

1990 32 Romero, Randy

1989 28 Romero, Randy

1988 23 Vasquez, Jacinto

1987 19 Hawley, Sandy

1986 22 Allen, Keith

1985 17 Romero, Randy

1984 15 Brumfield, Don

1983 16 Espinoza, Julio C.

1982 24 Romero, Randy

1981 16 Day, Pat

1980 20 Romero, Randy

1979 20 Brumfield, Don

1978 28 Delahoussaye, Eddie

1977 16 Delahoussaye, Eddie

1976 19 Brumfield, Don

1975 16 Brumfield, Don

1974 30 Brumfield, Don

1973 22 Brumfield, Don

1972 24 Brumfield, Don

1971 18 Knapp, Kenny

1970 13 Whited, David

1969 19 Whited, David

1968 16 Fires, Earlie

Year Wins Jockey

1994 17 Day, Pat

1993 23 Sellers, Shane

1992 17 Day, Pat

1991 45 Day Pat

1990 21 Day, Pat

1989 22 Allen, Keith

1988 30 Day, Pat

1987 31 Day, Pat

1986 36 Day, Pat

1985 23 Day, Pat

1984 26 Day, Pat

1983 29 Day, Pat

1982 25 Day, Pat

1981 25 Romero, Randy

1980 22 Brumfield, Don

1979 26 Morgan, Michael

1978 16 Delahoussaye, Eddie

1977 25 dePass, Richard

1976 20 Delahoussaye, Eddie

1975 22 Brumfield, Don; Delahoussaye, Eddie

1974 26 Brumfield, Don

1973 23 Brumfield, Don

1972 18 Brumfield, Don

1971 23 Brumfield, Don

1970 15 Fires, Earlie; Whited, David

1969 18 Brumfield, Don

1968 23 Marquez, Carlos H.

1967 27 Brumfield, Don

1966 28 Knapp, Kenny

Year Wins Jockey

1967 16 Fires, Earlie

1966 22 Fires, Earlie

1965 22 Knapp, Kenny

1964 18 Nichols, Jimmy

1963 21 Ycaza, Manuel

1962 16 Brooks, Steve

1961 22 Sellers, John

1960 18 Brooks, Steve

1959 19 Hartack, William

1958 13 Heckmann, John

1957 15 Hartack, William

1956 12 Brooks, Steve

1955 17 Brooks, Steve

1954 16 Baird, R.L.

1953 14 Arcaro, Eddie

1952 14 Porch, Gerald

1951 9 Church, Ken

1950 12 Church, Ken

1949 18 Glisson, Gordon

1948 12 Brooks, Steve

1947 12 Balzaretti, Willie

1946 9 Brooks, Steve

1942 11 Bierman, Carrol

1941 12 Eads, Wendell

1940 13 Eads, Wendell

1939 12 Yarberry, Warren

1938 11 Anderson, Irving

1937 10 Dotter, Robert

Year Wins Jockey

1965 13 Fires, Earlie; Gallimore, Robert 1964 23 Brumfield, Don 1963 12 Phelps, Billy

1962 18 Hinojosa, Herb 1961 14 Lynch, Jimmy

1960 12 Rotz, John L.

1959 20 Heckmann, John

1958 10 Smith, F. A.

1957 15 Heckmann, John 1956 25 Heckmann, John 1955 13 Heckmann, John 1954 13 Brooks, Steve 1953 13 Adams, Johnny 1952 9 Adams, Johnny; Porch, Gerald

1951 11 Adams, Johnny; Baird, R.L.

1950 12 Madden, Darrell

1949 14 Church, Ken

1948 13 Brooks, Steve 1947 17 Brooks, Steve 1946 12 Brooks, Steve

15 Adams, Johnny

15 McCreary, Conn

15 Longden, John

13 Arcaro, Eddie

13 Arcaro, Eddie

20 Arcaro, Eddie

15 South, George

Does not include Spring Meets of 1943-1945, which were held at Churchill Downs. No Fall Meets were conducted in 1943-1945. Boldface indicates meet record. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keeneland did not hold a 2020 Spring Meet but conducted a five-day Summer Meet from July 8-12.

Darley Alcibiades Stakes (G1)

SponsoredbyDarley

75th Running • Fall • 1 1/16 miles • 2-year-old fillies

The Alcibiades takes its name from the great foundation mare Alcibiades, who was owned by Hal Price Headley, one of Keeneland’s founders. More than a dozen stakes winners, including Menow, Firm Policy, Salaminia, Lithe, Rash Statement, Secret Hello, Silent Account and Sir Ivor, descend from Alcibiades. Darley began sponsoring the race in 2003.

Milestones – Alcibiades Stakes

2025 Purse: $650,000

Stakes Record: 1:42 1/5, Silverbulletday, 1998

Largest Straight Payoff: $222.60, Foxy Deen, 1984

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.60, Doubledogdare, 1955 (No wagering in 1965.)

Owner-Breeder-Trainer Combination: Donald M. McKellar, Hope of Glory, 1974, and Sans Supplement, 1976

Largest Field: 14, 2006; 2012; 2018; 2022

Smallest Field: 4, 1955; 1965

Largest Value to Winner: $397,963, Tommy Jo, 2025

Albaugh Family Stables (Dennis Albaugh) –Juju’s Map, 2021

Billips, Robert C. – Terra Incognita, 1987

Bowling, Carl and Vickie L. Foley et al –

She Says It Best, 2005

Bwamazon Farm – Coraggioso, 1972

Campbell, Jerry – Post It, 1994

Carrion, Jaime S. – Scratch Pad, 1999 Centennial Farms – Silent Account, 1985

Chadds Ford Stable (Phyllis Wyeth) –Dancing Rags, 2016

Chowhan, Naveed – Runway Model, 2004

Claiborne Farm – Doubledogdare, 1955; Moccasin, 1965

Clay, Charlton – Leallah, 1956

Combs II, Leslie – Moon Glory, 1957; Lady Tramp, 1967; Angel Island, 1978

Combs II, Leslie and Equites Stable (J.J. Jackson et al) – Lucky Lucky Lucky, 1983 Conquest Stables (Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell) – My Conquestadory, 2013

D.J. Stable (Leonard C. Green) –Wonder Wheel, 2022

Dogwood Stable – Mrs. Cornwallis, 1971

Dubb, Michael, The Elkstone Group (Stuart Grant), Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone) and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso) – British Idiom, 2019 Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners (Aron Wellman) – Candied, 2023

Farish, William S. – Sweet Revenge, 1980

Ferrari, Bruno – Little Tumbler, 1960 Firestone, Mrs. Bertram R. – Optimistic Gal, 1975

Owners – Alcibiades Stakes

Floyd, William H. – Fairway Fun, 1964; Zero Minus, 1986

Fourth Estate Stable – Journalette, 1961

Gallagher, Mrs. James H. – Jelly Bean Holiday, 1982

Gehl, A.P. and D.H. – Belle Noire, 1969

Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al) – Immersive, 2024

Goodwin, Mrs. J.A. – Oil Painting, 1953

Grant, Hugh A. – Abrogate, 1962

Griggs, Brian and Mike Goetz – She’s A Devil Due, 2000

Headley, Hal Price – Rash Statement, 1959

Hooper, Fred W. – Teacher’s Art, 1966

Hurley et al, Phillip – Salud, 1979

Kaster, Mr. and Mrs. Richard and Mr. and Mrs. Don Propson – Countess Diana, 1997

Kinsman Stud (George Steinbrenner) –Spinning Round (S), 1991

Klein, Eugene V. – Wonders Delight (S), 1988; Special Happening (S), 1989

Lerner, Harold, Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek) and Nehoc Stables (Dale Cohen) – Simply Ravishing, 2020

Levesque, Jean-Louis – L’Alezane, 1977

Livin the Dream Racing (Kelly Colliver) – Dream Empress, 2008

Lunsford, W. Bruce – Bel Air Beauty, 2006

Maine Chance Farm – Myrtle’s Jet, 1954

McKellar, Donald M. – Hope of Glory, 1974; Sans Supplement, 1976

Miles Jr., A. Stevens – Westerly Breeze, 2002

Miller, Elmer E. – Foxy Deen, 1984

Muckler Stables – Apalachee Honey, 1981

Overbrook Farm (William T. Young et al) –Stellar Cat (S), 1993

Oxley, Debby M. – Heavenly Love, 2017

Oxley, John C. – Spring in the Air, 2012

Pastime Stable (G. Watts Humphrey Jr. et al) – Private Treasure (S), 1990

Paulson, Allen E. – Eliza (S), 1992

Pegram, Mike – Silverbulletday, 1998

Qatar Racing – Peace and War, 2014

Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K. –Stephanie’s Kitten, 2011

Reddam Racing – Gomo, 2015

Reverie Knoll Farm – Secret Veil, 1963

Rice, Ada L. – City Girl, 1973

Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. – Lil’s Bag, 1968

Select Stable (Feye Bach) – Take Charge Lady, 2001

Shaffer, Mrs. E.E.D. – Sweet Patootie, 1952 Sovereign Stable (Matthew Gatsas) –Negligee, 2009

Spendthrift Farm (Eric P. Gustavson) –Tommy Jo, 2025

STD Racing Stable (Steve and David Kenly), Rafter JR Ranch (Jay Schneider) and Peter Moehrke – Wickedly Perfect, 2010

Stonerside Stable (Janice and Robert McNair) – Country Star, 2007

Tate, Mrs. Lloyd P. – Fiji, 1958

Three Chimneys Farm (Zuleika B. Torrealba) and Fern Circle Stables (Paul Fireman) – Restless Rider, 2018

TNT Stud – Cara Rafaela, 1995

VanMeter II, Thomas F. – Be Gentle, 2003

Vanier, Nancy A. – Southern Playgirl, 1996

Widener, George D. – Patelin, 1970

Allen Sr., Ronald – Post It, 1994

Baffert, Bob A. – Silverbulletday, 1998

Baker, James E. – Spinning Round (S), 1991

Ball, Michael – Terra Incognita, 1987

Basile, Anthony – Coraggioso, 1972

Battle, H.H. – Sweet Patootie, 1952

Brothers, Frank L. – Bel Air Beauty, 2006

Byrne, Patrick B. – Countess Diana, 1997

Carroll, Del W. – Sweet Revenge, 1980

Casse, Mark E. – Spring in the Air, 2012; My Conquestadory, 2013; Heavenly Love, 2017; Wonder Wheel, 2022

Catalano, Wayne M. – Stephanie’s Kitten, 2011

Catrone, Frank – City Girl, 1973

Cox, Brad H. – British Idiom, 2019; Juju’s Map, 2021; Immersive, 2024

Crowe, T.M. – Fairway Fun, 1964

Fischer, Richard J. – Lady Tramp, 1967

Flint, Bernard S. – Runway Model, 2004

Foley, Vickie L. – She Says It Best, 2005

Frankel, Robert J. – Country Star, 2007

Griffin, Strother – Secret Veil, 1963

Hassinger Jr., Alex L. – Eliza (S), 1992

Hultz, Allen – Rash Statement, 1959

Adams, Larry – Moccasin, 1965

Albarado, Robby – Westerly Breeze, 2002; Dream Empress, 2008

Allen, Keith – Silent Account, 1985

Armstrong, Sherman – Sweet Patootie,1952

Arroyo, Heriberto – Belle Noire, 1969

Bailey, Jerry – Private Treasure (S), 1990

Baird, R.L. – Abrogate, 1962

Bejarano, Rafael – Runway Model, 2004; Country Star, 2007; Wickedly Perfect, 2010

Blum, Walter – Myrtle’s Jet, 1954

Boulmetis, Sam – Leallah, 1956

Brooks, Steve – Doubledogdare, 1955

Broussard, Ray – Little Tumbler, 1960

Brumfield, Don – Lil’s Bag, 1968; Coraggioso, 1972; Jelly Bean Holiday, 1982

Carstens, Willie – Journalette, 1961

Castellano, Javier – British Idiom, 2019 Cruz, Angel – Dancing Rags, 2016

D’Amico, Tony – Take Charge Lady, 2001

Da Silva, Eurico – My Conquestadory, 2013 Day, Pat – Cara Rafaela, 1995

Delahoussaye, Eddie – Angel Island, 1978 Espinoza, Julio C. – Salud, 1979

Trainers – Alcibiades Stakes

Jerkens, H. Allen – Silent Account, 1985

Jolley, LeRoy – Optimistic Gal, 1975

Jolley, Moody – Doubledogdare, 1955

Lawrence Jr., Ray – Angel Island, 1978

Lukas, D. Wayne – Lucky Lucky Lucky, 1983; Wonders Delight (S), 1988; Special Happening (S), 1989; Stellar Cat (S), 1993; Cara Rafaela, 1995; Be Gentle, 2003

McKellar, Donald M. – Hope of Glory, 1974; Sans Supplement, 1976

McPeek, Kenneth G. – She’s A Devil Due, 2000; Take Charge Lady, 2001; Dream Empress, 2008; Restless Rider, 2018; Simply Ravishing, 2020

Miller, MacKenzie – Leallah, 1956

Mitchell, W.R. – Little Tumbler, 1960

Motion, H. Graham – Dancing Rags, 2016

Mourar, Ike K. – Myrtle’s Jet, 1954

Muckler, Timothy J. – Apalachee Honey, 1981

Nafzger, Carl – Zero Minus, 1986; Westerly Breeze, 2002

O’Neill, Doug F. – Wickedly Perfect, 2010; Gomo, 2015

Jockeys – Alcibiades Stakes

Fires, Earlie – City Girl, 1973

Foster, Darrell – Terra Incognita, 1987

Franco, Manuel – Immersive, 2024

Gaffalione, Tyler – Wonder Wheel, 2022

Gavidia, William – Sans Supplement, 1976

Geroux, Florent – Juju’s Map, 2021

Guidry, Mark – She’s A Devil Due, 2000

Gutierrez, Mario – Gomo, 2015

Hawley, Sandy – Zero Minus, 1986

Heckmann, John – Moon Glory, 1957

Hernandez Jr., Brian J. – Restless Rider, 2018

Husbands, Patrick – Spring in the Air, 2012

Jara, Fernando – Bel Air Beauty, 2006

Johnson, Joe – Spinning Round (S), 1991

Leonard, Jack – Fairway Fun, 1964

Leparoux, Julien – Peace and War, 2014; Heavenly Love, 2017

Lucas, W.D. – Secret Veil, 1963

Maple, Sam – Post It, 1994

Maragh, Rajiv – Negligee, 2009

Martin Jr., Eddie – She Says It Best, 2005

Martinez, Willie – Scratch Pad, 1999

McHargue, Darrel – Optimistic Gal, 1975

Alcibiades Stakes History

Ott, S. Bryant – Moon Glory, 1957; Journalette, 1961

Pierce Jr., Joseph H. – Private Treasure (S), 1990

Pletcher, Todd A. – Candied, 2023; Tommy Jo, 2025

Rieser, Stanley M. – Belle Noire, 1969

Rupelt, A.W. – Oil Painting, 1953

Shillick, Harry – Mrs. Cornwallis, 1971

Starr, John – L’Alezane, 1977

Stevens, Herbert K. – Jelly Bean Holiday, 1982

Stevens, Olly – Peace and War, 2014

Tate, Lloyd P. – Fiji, 1958

Terranova II, John P. – Negligee, 2009

Thomas, William C. – Salud, 1979

Tinsley Jr., J.E. – Teacher’s Art, 1966

Trotsek, Harry – Moccasin, 1965

Vanier, Harvey L. – Southern Playgirl, 1996

Veitch, Syl E. – Patelin, 1970

Warren, Ronnie – Lil’s Bag, 1968; Foxy Deen, 1984

Waunsch, Joseph – Scratch Pad, 1999

Williams, B.B. – Abrogate, 1962

Montoya, Daryl – Foxy Deen, 1984

Mora, Gerardo – Mrs. Cornwallis, 1971

Nichols, Jimmy – Fiji, 1958; Hope of Glory, 1974

Pincay Jr., Laffit – Teacher’s Art, 1966; Patelin, 1970

Popara, Al – Oil Painting, 1953

Romero, Randy – Southern Playgirl, 1996

Rotz, John L. – Rash Statement, 1959

Saez, Luis – Simply Ravishing, 2020; Candied, 2023

Santos, Jose – Special Happening (S), 1989

Sellers, Shane – Stellar Cat, 1993; Countess Diana, 1997

Shoemaker, William – Apalachee Honey,1981

Stevens, Gary – Wonders Delight (S), 1988; Silverbulletday, 1998

Turcotte, Ron – L’Alezane, 1977

Valenzuela, Ismael – Lady Tramp, 1967

Valenzuela, Patrick – Eliza (S), 1992

Vasquez, Jacinto – Lucky Lucky Lucky, 1983

Velasquez, Cornelio – Be Gentle, 2003

Velasquez, Jorge – Sweet Revenge, 1980

Velazquez, John R. – Stephanie’s Kitten, 2011; Tommy Jo, 2025

2025 Tommy Jo* John Velazquez (122) dq-Percy’s Bar The Grumpy Rabbit

Spendthrift Farm Todd A. Pletcher Luan Machado (122) Flavien Prat (122) (Eric P. Gustavson) Percy’s Bar disqualified from first and placed second.

2024 Immersive* Manuel Franco (122) Quickick

Godolphin Brad H. Cox Dylan Davis (122) Luis Saez (122) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2023 Candied Luis Saez (122) V V’s Dream

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Todd A. Pletcher Brian Hernandez Jr. (122) Flavien Prat (122) (Aron Wellman)

2022 Wonder Wheel* Tyler Gaffalione (122) Chop Chop

D.J. Stable (Leonard C. Green) Mark E. Casse Joel Rosario (122) Joseph Talamo (122) Raging Sea disqualified from third and placed fourth.

2021 Juju’s Map* Florent Geroux (122) Distinctlypossible

Albaugh Family Stables Brad H. Cox Tyler Gaffalione (122) Junior Alvarado (122) (Dennis Albaugh)

Alcibiades Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt.

2020 Simply Ravishing Luis Saez (122) Crazy Beautiful

Harold Lerner, Magdalena Racing

Kenneth G. McPeek

Brian J. Hernandez Jr. (122) Florent Geroux (122) (Sherri McPeek) and Nehoc Stables (Dale Cohen)

2019 British Idiom

Javier Castellano (118) Perfect Alibi

Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group Brad H. Cox

Jose Ortiz (118)

Joel Rosario (118) (Stuart Grant), Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone) and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso)

2018 Restless Rider*

Three Chimneys Farm

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Reflect

Kenneth G. McPeek

James Graham (118) Florent Geroux (118) (Zuleika B. Torrealba) and Fern Circle Stables (Paul Fireman)

2017 Heavenly Love

Debby M. Oxley

2016 Dancing Rags

Julien Leparoux (118)

Mark E. Casse

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Manuel

Angel Cruz (118) Daddys Lil

Chadds Ford Stable (Phyllis Wyeth) H. Graham Motion

2015 Gomo

Reddam Racing

2014 Peace and War

Corey Lanerie (118)

Mario Gutierrez (118) Dothraki Queen

Doug F. O’Neill

Julien Leparoux (118)

Qatar Racing Olly Stevens

2013 My Conquestadory*

Conquest Stables

Eurico Da Silva (118)

Mark E. Casse

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118)

Corey Lanerie (118) Paco Lopez (118) (sealed)

Rosie Napravnik (118) Chris Landeros (118)

Victor Lebron (118) Channing Hill (118) Polytrack (Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell)

2012 Spring in the Air*

John C. Oxley

2011 Stephanie’s Kitten

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey

2010 Wickedly Perfect*

Patrick Husbands (118) Broken Spell

Mark E. Casse

Rajiv Maragh (118) Rosie Napravnik (118) Polytrack

John R. Velazquez (118) Heart of Destiny Putthebabiesdown

Wayne M. Catalano

Edgar S. Prado (118) Alan Garcia (118) Polytrack

Rafael Bejarano (118) Harlan’s Ruby Jordy Y 1:46.26

STD Racing Stable (Steve and Doug F. O’Neill

Julien R. Leparoux (118) Junior Alvarado (118) Polytrack David Kenly), Rafter JR Ranch (Jay Schneider) and Peter Moehrke

2009 Negligee

Rajiv Maragh (118) She Be Wild Amen Hallelujah 1:43.76 ft 1/2

Sovereign Stable (Matthew Gatsas) John P. Terranova II Garrett Gomez (118) Miguel Mena (118) Polytrack

2008 Dream Empress

Livin the Dream Racing

Robby Albarado (118) Be Smart Devotee

Kenneth G. McPeek

Garrett Gomez (118) Eibar Coa (118) Polytrack (Kelly Colliver)

2007 Country Star

Rafael Bejarano (118) A to the Croft Grace Anatomy 1:45.85 ft 1 Stonerside Stable

Robert J. Frankel

Kent Desormeaux (118) Mike Smith (118) Polytrack (Janice and Robert McNair)

2006 Bel Air Beauty

Fernando Jara (118) Untouched Talent Her Majesty 1:45.32

3/4 W. Bruce Lunsford Frank L. Brothers Patrick Valenzuela (118) Julien Leparoux (118) Polytrack

2005 She Says It Best

Eddie Martin Jr. (118) Ex Caelis Performing Diva

Carl Bowling and Vickie L. Foley Edgar Prado (118) Mike Smith (118) Vickie L. Foley et al

2004 Runway Model Rafael Bejarano (118) Sharp Lisa In the Gold

Naveed Chowhan

2003 Be Gentle*

Bernard S. Flint

Corey Nakatani (118) Javier Castellano (118)

Cornelio Velasquez (118) Galloping

Thomas F. VanMeter II D. Wayne Lukas Brice Blanc (118) Robby Albarado (118)

2002 Westerly Breeze Robby Albarado (118) Ruby’s Reception

A. Stevens Miles Jr. Carl Nafzger Terry Thompson (118) Jorge Chavez (118)

2001 Take Charge Lady

Select Stable (Feye Bach)

2000 She’s A Devil Due

Brian Griggs and Mike Goetz

1999 Scratch Pad

Jaime S. Carrion

1998 Silverbulletday*

Mike Pegram

1997 Countess Diana

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kaster

(118)

Kenneth G. McPeek Jon Court (118) Calvin Borel (118)

Mark Guidry (118) Nasty Storm Cash Deal

Kenneth G. McPeek Pat Day (118) Jorge Chavez (118)

Willie Martinez (118) Rare Beauty Cash Run

Joseph Waunsch

Shane Sellers (118) Craig Perret (118)

Gary Stevens (118) Extended Applause

Bob A. Baffert

Edgar Prado (118) Willie Martinez (118)

Shane Sellers (118) Lily O’Gold

Patrick B. Byrne

Willie Martinez (118) Jerry Bailey (118) and Mr. and Mrs. Don Propson

1996 Southern Playgirl*

Nancy A. Vanier

1995 Cara Rafaela*

Randy Romero (118) Screamer

Harvey L. Vanier Jose Santos (118) Pat Day (118) PrivatePursuitdisqualifiedfromsecondandplacedthird.

Pat Day (118) Birr

TNT Stud D. Wayne Lukas

Rene Douglas (118) Mike Smith (118)

Alcibiades Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt.

1994 Post It Sam Maple (118) Morris Code Cat Appeal

Jerry Campbell

1993 Stellar Cat (S)

Ronald Allen Sr. Shane Sellers (118) Pat Day (118)

Shane Sellers (118) Slew Kitty Slew

Overbrook Farm D. Wayne Lukas

Donna Barton (118)

Beau Blush (S)

Sam Maple (118) (William T. Young et al)

1992 Eliza* (S)

Allen E. Paulson

Patrick Valenzuela (118) Avie’s Shadow (S)

Alex L. Hassinger Jr. Pat Day (118)

1991 Spinning Round (S) Joe Johnson (118) Queens Court Queen

Kinsman Stud James E. Baker Pat Day (118)

True Affair (S)

Mike Smith (118)

James Bruin (118) (George Steinbrenner)

1990 Private Treasure (S) Jerry Bailey (118) Through Flight Southern Bar Girl

Pastime Stable Joseph H. Pierce Jr. Joe Johnson (118)

Stewart Elliott (118) (G. Watts Humphrey Jr. et al)

1989 Special Happening* (S) Jose Santos (118) Talltale Lady

Eugene V. Klein D. Wayne Lukas Jorge Velasquez (118) Pat Day (118)

1988 Wonders Delight (S) Gary Stevens (118) Affirmed Classic (S) Seattle Meteor (S)

Eugene V. Klein D. Wayne Lukas Pat Day (118)

1987 Terra Incognita Darrell Foster (118) Epitome (S)

Randy Romero (118)

Robert C. Billips Michael Ball Mike Smith (118) Keith Allen (118)

1986 Zero Minus

Sandy Hawley (118) Bound Desirous (S)

William H. Floyd Carl Nafzger Jerry Bailey (118)

1985 Silent Account Keith Allen (118) Steal A Kiss

Mike Smith (118)

Centennial Farms H. Allen Jerkens Herbert McCauley (118) Eddie Delahoussaye (118)

1984 Foxy Deen

Daryl Montoya (118) Weekend Delight

Elmer E. Miller Ronnie Warren Charles Woods Jr. (118) Phil Rubbicco (118)

1983 Lucky Lucky Lucky* Jacinto Vasquez (118) Flippers

Leslie Combs II and D. Wayne Lukas Pat Day (118)

Equites Stable (J.J. Jackson et al)

1982 Jelly Bean Holiday Don Brumfield (118) Quarrel Over

Larry Melancon (118)

Mrs. James H. Gallagher Herbert K. Stevens William Gavidia (118) William Shoemaker (118)

Muckler Stables Timothy J. Muckler Darrel McHargue (118) Jerry

1980 Sweet Revenge* Jorge Velasquez (118) Expressive Dance

William S. Farish

1979 Salud

1978

Phillip Hurley et al

Leslie Combs II

1977 L’Alezane*

1976

Jean-Louis Levesque

Donald M. McKellar

1975 Optimistic Gal*

Mrs. Bertram R. Firestone

1974 Hope of Glory

Donald M. McKellar

1973 City Girl

Ada L. Rice

1972 Coraggioso

Bwamazon Farm

1971 Mrs. Cornwallis

Dogwood Stable

1970 Patelin

George D. Widener

1969 Belle Noire*

A.P. and D.H. Gehl

Del W. Carroll Jacinto Vasquez (118)

Julio C. Espinoza (118) Diorama

William C. Thomas

(119)

Donald MacBeth (118)

Ray Lawrence Jr. Darrel McHargue (119)

Ron Turcotte (119) Robalea

John Starr

Gavidia (119)

Donald M. McKellar

Sam Maple (119)

(118)

(119)

(119)

Bryan Fann (119) Sandy Hawley (119)

Darrel McHargue (119) Old Goat

LeRoy Jolley

Mike Hole (119) Don Brumfield (119)

Jimmy Nichols (119) Funny Cat

Donald M. McKellar

Fernando Valdizan (119) Anthony Rini (119)

Earlie Fires (119) Fairway Fable

Frank Catrone

David Whited (119)

Don Brumfield (119) Bag of Tunes

Anthony Basile

Earlie Fires (119)

Gerardo Mora (119) La Brisa

Harry Shillick

Eddie Snell (119)

Robert Woodhouse (119)

Solomone (119)

Jacinto Vasquez (119)

Laffit Pincay Jr. (119) Bonnie and Gay Secret Retreat

Syl E. Veitch

Alvaro Pineda (119) David Whited (119)

Heriberto Arroyo (119) Song Sparrow

Stanley M. Rieser Don Brumfield (119) David Whited (119)

1968 Lil’s Bag Don Brumfield (119) Show Off

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Roberts Ronnie Warren Jesse Davidson (119) Doug Richard (119)

1967 Lady Tramp Ismael Valenzuela (119) Sweet Tooth Walk My Lady

Leslie Combs II Richard J. Fischer Billy Phelps (119) Pete Anderson (119)

1966 Teacher’s Art Laffit Pincay Jr. (119) Thong

Fred W. Hooper

J.E. Tinsley Jr. William Hartack (119) Kenny Knapp (119)

1965 Moccasin Larry Adams (119) Chalina

Claiborne Farm

1964 Fairway Fun

William H. Floyd

Harry Trotsek

Robert Gallimore (119) Billy Phelps (119)

Jack Leonard (119) Terentia Kalispell

T.M. Crowe

Ken Church (119)

Kenny Knapp (119)

Year Winner/Owner

1963 Secret Veil

Reverie Knoll Farm

1962 Abrogate

Hugh A. Grant

1961 Journalette

Fourth Estate Stable

1960 Little Tumbler*

Bruno Ferrari

1959 Rash Statement*

Hal Price Headley

1958 Fiji

Mrs. Lloyd P. Tate

1957 Moon Glory*

Leslie Combs II

1956 Leallah*

Charlton Clay

1955 Doubledogdare*

Claiborne Farm

1954 Myrtle’s Jet

Maine Chance Farm

Alcibiades Stakes History

Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt.

W.D. Lucas (119) Kahgahgee

Strother Griffin

Billy Phelps (119)

R.L. Baird (119) Sally Ship

B.B. Williams

Willie Carstens (119)

Herb Hinojosa (119) Jimmy Lynch (119)

Willie Carstens (119) Dulaturee

S. Bryant Ott

Jimmy Lynch (119) Sandino Hernandez (119)

Ray Broussard (119) Times Two

W.R. Mitchell

John L. Rotz (119)

Allen Hultz

Jimmy Nichols (119)

Lloyd P. Tate

William M. Cook (119) John Heckmann (119)

Doug Dodson (119)

Ken Church (119)

John Heckmann (119) My Carrie

S. Bryant Ott

Clarence Meaux (119)

Bennie Green (119)

Ralph Borgemenke (119) Doug Dodson (119)

Sam Boulmetis (119) Bluebility

MacKenzie Miller

Johnny Adams (119) Steve Brooks (119)

Steve Brooks (119) Ament

Moody Jolley

Doug Dodson (119) Don Scurlock (119)

Walter Blum (119) Lea Lane

Ike K. Mourar

Dave Erb (119) John Heckmann (119)

1953 Oil Painting Al Popara (119) Pegeen Queen Hopeful

Mrs. J.A. Goodwin A.W. Rupelt

1952 Sweet Patootie*

Ken Church (119) Johnny Adams (119)

Sherman Armstrong (119) Good Call Aerolite

Mrs. E.E.D. Shaffer H.H. Battle

*Winningfavorite. S-Supplementarynomination.

Don Scurlock (119) Steve Brooks (119)

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Appalachian Stakes (G2)

PresentedbyJapanRacingAssociation

38th Running • Spring • 1 mile (turf) • 3-year-old fillies

Named for the beloved mountainous region that includes Eastern Kentucky, the Appalachian debuted in 1989 as a 1 1/16-mile race on turf. The distance of the race became one mile in 1996. The Japan Racing Association has presented the race since 2013.

Milestones – Appalachian Stakes

2025 Purse: $500,000

Stakes Record: 1:33.97, Enola Gay, 2020

Largest Straight Payoff: $102.60, Afternoon Stroll, 2009

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.80, Lady Eli, 2015

Largest Field: 12, 2007; 2024

Smallest Field: 5, 2006

Largest Value to Winner: $302,250, Nitrogen, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Appalachian Stakes History

Favored Nitrogen defeated stablemate Vixen in the Appalachian (G2) Presented by Japan Racing Association.

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt.

2025 Nitrogen* Jose Ortiz (118) Vixen

D. J. Stable (Leonard C. Green) Mark E. Casse Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Luan Machado (118)

2024 Buchu

Martin Garcia (120) Mo Fox Givin

Rigney Racing (Richard Rigney) Philip A. Bauer Junior Alvarado (118) Jose Ortiz (118) 2023 Papilio (IRE) Javier Castellano (118) Cairo Consort

D. J. Stable Leonard C. Green), Mark E. Casse Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Florent Geroux (118) Medallion Racing (Phillip Shelton), Barry Fowler and Parkland Thoroughbreds (Steve Weston)

2022 Spendarella* Tyler Gaffalione (118) Dolce Zel (FR) Skims (GB)

Gainesway Stable (Antony Beck) H. Graham Motion Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Flavien Prat (118)

2021 Jouster* Luis Saez (118) Gift List (GB)

Starlight Racing (Jack Wolf et al) Todd A. Pletcher Javier Castellano (118) Joel Rosario (120)

2020 Enola Gay Julien Leparoux (118) Walk In Marrakesh (IRE) Alms

Allen Stable (Joe Allen) Claude R. McGaughey III Jose Ortiz (118) Joel Rosario (118)

2019 The Mackem Bullet (IRE) Tyler Gaffalione (118) Regal Glory

Katsumi Yoshida Wesley A. Ward Jose Ortiz (118) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118)

2018 Rushing Fall* Javier Castellano (123) Thewayiam (FR) Goodthingstaketime (IRE)

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds Chad C. Brown Jose Ortiz (123) Joel Rosario (118) (Robert J. Edwards Jr.)

2017 La Coronel Florent Geroux (120) Morticia Proctor’s Ledge

John C. Oxley Mark E. Casse Jose Lezcano (118) Corey Lanerie (118)

2016 Catch a Glimpse* Florent Geroux (123) Ava’s Kitten Outsider Art

Gary Barber, Michael James Mark E. Casse Javier Castellano (120) Drayden Van Dyke (118) Keeneland Course Ambler and Windways Farm (Jeff Begg)

2015 Lady Eli* Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) Miss Temple

Sheep Pond Partners Chad C. Brown John Velazquez (118)

(Sol Kumin)

2014 Daring Dancer

Alan Garcia (118) Sweet Acclaim (IRE)

Sagamore Farm H. Graham Motion Rosie Napravnik (118) Joel Rosario (120) Keeneland Course

2013 Unbelievable Dream Joel Rosario (118) Overheard

Sure Thing Stables Barclay Tagg Rosie Napravnik (118)

(Michael McGuire)

2012 Dayatthespa* Javier Castellano (123) Somali Lemonade

Jerry Frankel, Ronald Frankel, Chad C. Brown Alex Solis (123)

Jesus L. Castanon (118) Keeneland Course Steve Laymon and Bradley Thoroughbreds (Peter Bradley)

Appalachian Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2011 Winter Memories* Jose Lezcano (123) Dos Lunas Parting Words 1:37.27 fm nk Phillips Racing Partnership James J. Toner Jon Court (117) Julien Leparoux (117) Keeneland Course (Joan and John Phillips)

2010 Check the Label

Julien Leparoux (119) Bay to Bay Rose Catherine

Brereton C. Jones H. Graham Motion Javier Castellano (123) Garrett Gomez (117) Keeneland Course

2009 Afternoon Stroll Jamie Theriot (117) Hot Cha Cha Fast Tigress

Blazing Meadows Farm Timothy E. Hamm Orlando Mojica (119) Julien Leparoux (119) Keeneland Course (Timothy E. Hamm) and Rick Claypool

2008 Alwajeeha John Velazquez (117) Sweepstake (IRE) I Lost My Choo

Shadwell Stable Kiaran P. McLaughlin Garrett Gomez (117) Edgar Prado (119) Keeneland Course (Hamdan Al Maktoum)

2007 Audacious Chloe* John Velazquez (121) Classic Neel Red Birkin 1:36.39 fm nk

Team Valor Stables

Todd A. Pletcher Rafael Bejarano (119) Javier Castellano (117) Haggin Course (Barry Irwin et al) and Never Tell Farm (Audrey Haisfield)

2006 Lady of Venice (FR) Julien Leparoux (117) May Night J’ray

Martin S. Schwartz Patrick Biancone

2005 Melhor Ainda*

Robby Albarado (117) Rafael Bejarano (121) Haggin Course

John Velazquez (121) Paddy’s Daisy Sweet Talker

yl 3 1/2 TNT Stud (Goncalo Torrealba)

Robert J. Frankel Jerry Bailey (123) Brice Blanc (121) Haggin Course

2004 Lucifer’s Stone* Jose Santos (120) Western Ransom Honey Ryder 1:37.58

Team Solaris Stable (John Ball) Linda Rice Rafael Bejarano (116) John Velazquez (116) Haggin Course

2003 Ocean Drive* Jerry Bailey (120) Tangle (IRE) Cheryl’s Myth

Sybon Stable

Todd A. Pletcher Corey Nakatani (117) Cornelio Velasquez (116) Keeneland Course (Bonnie and Sy Baskin)

2002 Stylelistick Pat Day (120) Lush Soldier August Storm 1:36.62 fm 2 1/2 Team Valor (Barry Irwin et al) William I. Mott Jorge Chavez (120) Jon Court (120) Keeneland Course and Dream With Me Stable (Jean Pierre Dubois)

2001 Bold Answer

Linda Neece

Mark Guidry (116) Voodoo Dancer (FR) Word Puzzle

Michael H. Stidham Mike Smith (120) Jerry Bailey (120)

2000 Impending Bear Pat Day (116) Ever After Hummingbird Red

Michael J. Ryan

1999 Tres Coronas

Bea and Robert H. Roberts

1998 Halo River

Michael H. Stidham

Eddie Martin Jr. (116) Craig Perret (116) Keeneland Course

Jorge Chavez (114) Perfect Sting Seducer

Stanley Hough Pat Day (114) Jose Santos (119) Keeneland Course

Craig Perret (116) Adel Shires Ende

Robert B. Berger Anthony L. Reinstedler

1997 Witchful Thinking*

Peter Grimm

1996 Dyna Whirl

Nancy and Richard Kaster

Jerry Bailey (114) Robby Albarado (114) Keeneland Course

Shane Sellers (118) Starry Dreamer St. Lucinda 1:35 fm 1

Niall M. O’Callaghan Pat Day (118) Jose Santos (113) Keeneland Course

Robbie Davis (112) Vashon Cymbala (FR) 1:38 1/5 fm no

Burk Kessinger Jr. Julie Krone (112) Jose Santos (114) Keeneland Course and S.E. Ricker

1995 Bail Out Becky*

Kenneth L. Ramsey

1994 Bedroom Blues

Alan Booge and Pauline Deakins

Shane Sellers (121) Christmas Gift Appointed One 1:41 3/5

William I. Mott

Charles Woods Jr. (118) Mike Smith (113) Keeneland Course

Mike Smith (115) Promised Legacy Fred’s Affair 1:45 fm no

William Deakins

Craig Perret (112) Pat Day (121) Keeneland Course

1993 Harlan Honey* Pat Day (115) Foxy Ferdie Heavenliness 1:45 1/5 yl 2 1/2

Brereton C. Jones

1992 White Corners*

Robert P. Levy

1991 Radiant Ring*

Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel)

1990 Super Fan

Hermitage Farm

Philip M. Hauswald

Randy Romero (121) Craig Perret (115) Keeneland Course

Craig Perret (115) Sing For Free Shes Just Super 1:44 2/5

Warren A. Croll Jr. Shane Sellers (113) Pat Day (121) Keeneland Course

Pat Day (121) Wavering Wand Maria Balastiere

James E. Day

Sandy Hawley (112) Chris Antley (115)

Jose Santos (115) Southern Tradition Wavering Girl 1:44

Steven Penrod

Craig Perret (121) Pat Day (121) (Warner L. Jones Jr.)

1989 To the Lighthouse

Christiana Stable

Randy Romero (115) Darby Shuffle Fairway Style 1:46 1/5

William Badgett Jr. Craig Perret (121) Jack Neagle (115) (Jane duPont Lunger)

*Winningfavorite.

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Central Bank Ashland Stakes® (G1)

SponsoredbyCentralBank

88th Running • Spring • 1 1/16 miles • 3-year-old fillies

The Ashland Stakes and the Kentucky Association’s Ashland Oaks were named for the Lexington homestead and breeding farm of statesman Henry Clay. The Ashland was inaugurated at Keeneland’s first race meeting. The initial two runnings – at the fall meets of 1936 and 1937 – were for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and upward. Discontinued for two years, the Ashland was revived in the spring of 1940 as an event exclusively for 3-year-old fillies. From 1943-1945, the Ashland was renewed as a part of the Keeneland-at-Churchill Downs meetings. Central Bank became the sponsor in 2010.

Milestones – Ashland Stakes

2025 Purse: $750,000

Stakes Record: 1:41.26, Speech, 2020

Largest Straight Payoff: $136.80, Dun-Cee, 1967

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.40, Bewitch, 1948; Princess Rooney, 1983; Glitter Woman, 1997

Largest Field: 13, 1950; 1970; 1989; 2013; 2014

Smallest Field: 3, 1936

Largest Value to Winner: $447,563, La Cara, 2025

Owner-Breeder-Trainer Combination: Clarence Hartwick, Sickle’s Image, 1951

Alexander, Emory – Chic Shirine, 1987

Allen, Joseph – Glitter Woman, 1997

Asbury, Dr. Eslie – Insouciant, 1955

Ashbrook Farm (Glen S. Bromagen)

– Weep No More, 2016

Bomar Stable – June Bee, 1940

Braly Family Trust (Tom and Marilyn Braly)

– Evening Jewel, 2010

Brandy Hills Farm – Koluctoo’s Jill, 1985

Brumfield, Viola – Winged Wishes (1st div.), 1974

Busching, Tony and Cal Bernstein –Sound of Summer, 1977

Cain Hoy Stable – Jota Jota, 1957; Hidden Talent, 1959; Sally Ship, 1963

Calumet Farm – Bewitch, 1948; Real Delight (2nd div.), 1952; Sugar and Spice (2nd div.), 1980

Campbell Jr., Alex G. – Weep No More, 2012

Christiana Stables – Go for Wand, 1990 Circle M Farm – Cosmic Missile, 1947

Claiborne Farm – Doubledogdare, 1956

Clay, Robert N. – Gorgeous, 1989

Combs, Brownell – Myrtlewood, 1936

Commonwealth Stable (Sam Samsel) –Out for a Spin, 2019

Covello, James, Judy Hicks and Kathryn Nikkel – Lilacs and Lace, 2011

Cox Jr., Edward A. – Classy Cathy, 1986

Daniel, Mr. and Mrs. T.M. – Free for Me (1st div.), 1952

Darby Dan Farm – Maud Muller (2nd div.), 1974

Darley Stable (Mohammed Al Maktoum)

Little Belle, 2008

Derby Daze Farms (Gail Gee) and Mark Hoffman – Hooh Why, 2009

Dixiana – Wondring, 1950

D J Stable (Len Green) – Do It With Style, 1991

Drymon & Greenslit – Double Delta, 1969

Dubb, Michael, Monomoy Stables (Sol Kumin), The Elkstone Group (Stuart Grant) and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso) –Monomoy Girl, 2018

Owners – Ashland Stakes

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners (Aron Wellman) and Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone) – Speech, 2020

Evans, Edward P. – Christmas Kid, 2007

Farmer, Tracy – La Cara, 2025

Farish, William S. – Prospectors Delite, 1992

Firestone, Mrs. Bertram R. – Optimistic Gal, 1976

Fisher, Mary V. – Goldflower, 1961

Friedberg, Hyman – Harriet Sue, 1944

Gilmartin, Mrs. S.L. – Barely Even, 1972

Great Lakes Stable – Ramadel, 1958

Greentree Stable – Drowsy, 1937

Haggin II, Louis Lee – Tingle, 1960

Hanger, W. Arnold – Sweet Caprice, 1946

Hardesty, Wells, Ben P. Walden and Dennis W. Ebert – Enumerating, 1984

Hartwick, Clarence – Sickle’s Image, 1951

Hawn, Mrs. W.R. – Blue Norther, 1964

Hild, Glenn – Raging Whirl, 1973

Homewrecker Stable (Ricki and Ron Rashinski) – Bushfire, 2006

Jones, Brereton C. – Lovely Maria, 2015

Juddmonte Farms Inc. (Khalid Abdullah) – Emollient, 2013

Landaluce Educe Stables – Rosalind, 2014 (DH)

Lunsford, W. Bruce – Madcap Escapade, 2004

Lussky, Clifford – Justakiss, 1966

Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek et al), Colette

Marie Vanmatre and James Ball –Defining Purpose, 2023

Magnier, Mrs. John and Michael Tabor –Well Chosen, 1998

Newman, Donald – Mucchina, 1978

Paxson, Mrs. Henry D. – Candy Eclair, 1979

Pegram, Michael E. – Silverbulletday, 1999

Perry, William Haggin – Terentia (1st div.), 1965

Phipps, Michael G. – Gay Missile, 1970

Phipps, Ogden – My Flag, 1996

Phipps, Ogden Mills – Inside Information, 1994

Piatt, Thomas – Come and Go, 1945

Potrykus, Mrs. Julius – Bright Bauble (2nd div.), 1965

Quinichett, Lorraine – Willa On the Move, 1988

Reddam, John Paul – Elloluv, 2003

Repole Stable (Mike Repole), Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners (Aron Wellman) and Michael House – Nest, 2022

Rice, Ada L. – Cerise Reine, 1953

Roban Stable – Miss Swapsco, 1968

Sandbar Farms (Barry Buchholz) – Lunar Spook, 1993

Select Stable (Feye Bach) – Take Charge Lady, 2002

Semaphore Racing (Dana E. Haugli) and Homewrecker Racing (Ricki and Ron Rashinski) – Sailor’s Valentine, 2017

Shadwell Stable (Rick Nichols) – Malathaat, 2021

Siegel, Jan, Mace and Samantha –Urbane, 1995

Stonereath Farm – Blush With Pride, 1982

Stonerside Stable (J. and R. McNair), Sanford Goldfarb, Joe Torre, Michael Dubb and Ira Davis – Sis City, 2005

Strapro Stable – Flos Florum (1st div.), 1980

Sturgis, Roy – Windy Miss, 1962

Tucker, Paula – Princess Rooney, 1983

Turf Side Stables (Joseph D. Kowal) –Rings a Chime, 2000

Tutt, L.J. – Jenjay, 1954

Valdina Farm – Valdina Myth, 1941; Valdina Marl, 1943

V.H.W. Stable Inc. (Verne H. Winchell) –Fleet Renee, 2001

Welsch, Larry – Dun-Cee, 1967

West, Gary and Mary – Room Service, 2014 (DH)

Whisper Hill Farm (Amanda Pope) – Leslie’s Rose, 2024

Whitney, C.V. – You All, 1971; Sun and Snow, 1975

Whitney, John Hay – The Swallow, 1942

Windfields Farm – Truly Bound, 1981

Woodvale Farm – Tall Weeds, 1949

Arnold II, George R. – Karlovy Vary, 2012; Weep No More, 2016

Arterburn, Lonnie – Rings a Chime, 2000

Badgett Jr., William – Go for Wand, 1990

Baffert, Bob A. – Silverbulletday, 1999

Barnes, Edgar – June Bee, 1940

Blusiewicz, Leon J. – Willa On the Move, 1988

Bollero, Joseph M. – Classy Cathy, 1986

Borders, William S. – Flos Florum (1st div.), 1980

Brennan, William – Drowsy, 1937

Brothers, Frank L. – Madcap Escapade, 2004

Carroll, Del W. – Gay Missile, 1970

Casse, Mark E. – La Cara, 2025

Cassidy, James M. – Evening Jewel, 2010

Catalano, Wayne – Room Service, 2014 (DH) Catrone, Frank – Valdina Marl, 1943 Contessa, Gary – Do It With Style, 1991 Cox, Brad H. – Monomoy Girl, 2018

Delp, Grover G. – Truly Bound, 1981

Dickinson, Michael W. – Fleet Renee, 2001

Dobson, E.C. – Free for Me (1st div.), 1952

Dollase, Craig – Elloluv, 2003

Drysdale, Neil – Gorgeous, 1989

Dunn, T.W. – Blue Norther, 1964

Dupuy, Donna L. – Hooh Why, 2009

Dutrow Jr., Richard E. – Sis City, 2005

Ebert, Dennis W. – Enumerating, 1984

Edens, Mary – Candy Eclair, 1979

Flanigan, J.J. – Valdina Myth, 1941

Goldfine, Lou M. – Barely Even, 1972

Albarado, Robby – Elloluv, 2003

Amy, Jose – Mucchina, 1978

Anderson, Pete – Jota Jota, 1957

Arcaro, Eddie – The Swallow, 1942; Real Delight (2nd div.), 1952

Baeza, Braulio – Optimistic Gal, 1976

Bailey, Jerry – My Flag, 1996; Silverbulletday, 1999

Bailey, P.J. – Jenjay, 1954

Baird, R.L. – Windy Miss, 1962

Balzaretti, Willie – Cosmic Missile, 1947

Black, Anthony – Candy Eclair, 1979

Bridgmohan, Shaun – Room Service, 2014 (DH)

Brooks, Steve – Doubledogdare, 1956; Goldflower, 1961

Broussard, Ray – Gay Missile, 1970

Brumfield, Don – Winged Wishes (1st div.), 1974; Maud Muller (2nd div.), 1974; Enumerating, 1984

Campbell, R.J. – Justakiss, 1966

Castellano, Javier – Lilacs and Lace, 2011; Speech, 2020 Clark, Kerwin – Lovely Maria, 2015

D’Amico, Tony – Take Charge Lady, 2002 Davis, Dylan – La Cara, 2025

Delahoussaye, Eddie – Gorgeous, 1989; Urbane, 1995

Desormeaux, Kent – Evening Jewel, 2010 Dodson, Doug – Cerise Reine, 1953

Trainers – Ashland Stakes

Gomez, Frank – Princess Rooney, 1983

Hanover, John – Harriet Sue, 1944

Hartwick, Clarence – Sickle’s Image, 1951

Headley, Duval A. – The Swallow, 1942

Hild, Glenn – Raging Whirl, 1973

Hodgins, Jack C. – Goldflower, 1961; Wondring, 1950

Hoffman, Howard – Cerise Reine, 1953; Tingle, 1960

Howard, Neil J. – Prospectors Delite, 1992

Jerkens, James A. – Christmas Kid, 2007

Jolley, LeRoy – Optimistic Gal, 1976

Jolley, Moody – Doubledogdare, 1956

Jones, Ben A. – Bewitch, 1948; Real Delight (2nd div.), 1952

Jones, J. Larry – Lovely Maria, 2015

Kassen, David – Winged Wishes (1st div.), 1974

Kenneally, Eddie – Bushfire, 2006; Sailor’s Valentine, 2017

Kindred, R.A. – Myrtlewood, 1936

Levine, Bruce – Koluctoo’s Jill, 1985

Lukas, D. Wayne – Blush With Pride, 1982; Chic Shirine, 1987; Well Chosen, 1998

Maloney, James W. – Terentia (1st div.), 1965

Marcus, Alan B. – Mucchina, 1978

Mayberry, Brian – Urbane, 1995

McCarthy, Michael W. – Speech, 2020

McGaughey III, Claude R. – Inside Information, 1994; My Flag, 1996; Glitter Woman, 1997

Jockeys – Ashland Stakes

Dotter, Robert – Drowsy, 1937

Douglas, Rene – Madcap Escapade, 2004; Christmas Kid, 2007

Fell, Jeff – Sugar and Spice (2nd div.), 1980 Fires, Earlie – Classy Cathy, 1986 Fisk, Billie – Sickle’s Image, 1951; Insouciant, 1955

Geroux, Florent – Monomoy Girl, 2018 Graham, James – Karlovy Vary, 2012 Harmatz, William – Dun-Cee, 1967 Hartack, William – Ramadel, 1958 Hawley, Sandy – Chic Shirine, 1987

Brian Hernandez Jr. – Defining Purpose, 2023 Higley, Jesse – Harriet Sue, 1944 Hinojosa, Herbert – Tingle, 1960 James, Basil – Valdina Myth, 1941 Jessop, J.D. – Free for Me (1st div.), 1952 Knapp, Kenny – Bright Bauble (2nd div.), 1965; You All, 1971

Lanerie, Corey – Hooh Why, 2009; Weep No More, 2016; Sailor’s Valentine, 2017 Lopez, Paco – Out for a Spin, 2019 Manifold, Henry – Wondring, 1950

Maragh, Rajiv – Little Belle, 2008

Marquez, Carlos H. – Double Delta, 1969 Martin, C.L. – Come and Go, 1945 McCarron, Chris – Willa On the Move, 1988 McCombs, Ken – June Bee, 1940 McCreary, Conn – Tall Weeds, 1949

McLaughlin, Kiaran P. – Little Belle, 2008

McPeek, Kenneth G. – Take Charge Lady, 2002; Rosalind, 2014 (DH), Defining Purpose, 2023

Mott, William I. – Emollient, 2013

Noe Sr., Kenny – Ramadel, 1958

Pletcher, Todd A. – Malathaat, 2021; Nest, 2022; Leslie’s Rose, 2024

Poole, George T. – You All, 1971; Sun and Snow, 1975

Pratt, Thomas A. – Sound of Summer, 1977

Proctor, Willard L. – Bright Bauble (2nd div.), 1965

Rieser, Stanley M. – Justakiss, 1966; Miss Swapsco, 1968; Double Delta, 1969

Rivard, Ray – Dun-Cee, 1967

Rondinello, T.L. – Maud Muller (2nd div.), 1974

Sallee, J.P. – Come and Go, 1945; Jenjay, 1954

Sonnier, J. Bert – Lunar Spook, 1993

Stephens, Woodford C. – Tall Weeds, 1949; Jota Jota, 1957; Hidden Talent, 1959; Sally Ship, 1963

Stewart, Dallas – Out for a Spin, 2019

Terranova II, John P. – Lilacs and Lace, 2011

Tinker, Harold – Windy Miss, 1962

Veitch, John – Sugar and Spice (2nd div.), 1980

Wells, Howard – Insouciant, 1955

Williams, B.B. – Cosmic Missile, 1947; Sweet Caprice, 1946

Nichols, Jimmy – Terentia (1st div.), 1965

Ortiz Jr., Irad – Nest, 2022; Leslie’s Rose, 2024 Patterson, Garth – Sun and Snow, 1975

Perret, Craig – Prospectors Delite, 1992 Pierson, N.L. – Bewitch, 1948

Prado, Edgar – Sis City, 2005

Richard, Doug – Miss Swapsco, 1968

Romero, Randy – Flos Florum (1st div.), 1980; Koluctoo’s Jill, 1985; Go for Wand, 1990 Rosario, Joel – Rosalind, 2014 (DH); Malathaat, 2021

Rotz, John L. – Barely Even, 1972

Sellers, John – Hidden Talent, 1959 Sellers, Shane – Do It With Style, 1991; Lunar Spook, 1993; Rings a Chime, 2000 Shoemaker, William – Blue Norther, 1964; Truly Bound, 1981; Blush With Pride, 1982 Smith, Mike – Inside Information, 1994; Glitter Woman, 1997; Emollient, 2013 Soirez, Weston – Raging Whirl, 1973

South, George – Myrtlewood, 1936 Toro, Fernando – Sound of Summer, 1977 Vasquez, Jacinto – Princess Rooney, 1983 Velasquez, Cornelio – Bushfire, 2006

Velazquez, John – Fleet Renee, 2001

Woods Jr., Charles – Well Chosen, 1998 Ycaza, Manuel – Sally Ship, 1963 Zufelt, Ferril – Valdina Marl, 1943; Sweet Caprice, 1946

Ashland Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 La Cara Dylan Davis (121) Take Charge Milady

Tracy Farmer Mark E. Casse Brian Hernandez Jr. (121)

2024 Leslie’s Rose Irad Ortiz Jr. (121) Just F Y I

Flavien Prat (121)

Whisper Hill Farm (Amanda Pope) Todd A. Pletcher Junior Alvarado (121) Florent Geroux (121)

2023 Defining Purpose Brian Hernandez Jr. (121) Punchbowl

Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek Kenneth G. McPeek Flavien Prat (121) Luis Saez (121) et al), Colette Marie Vanmatre and James Ball

2022 Nest* Irad Ortiz Jr. (121) Cocktail Moments

Repole Stable (Mike Repole), Todd A. Pletcher Corey Lanerie (121) Florent Geroux (121)

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners (Aron Wellman) and Michael House

2021 Malathaat Joel Rosario (121) Pass the Champagne Will’s Secret

Shadwell Stable (Rick Nichols) Todd A. Pletcher Javier Castellano (121) Jon Court (121)

2020 Speech Javier Castellano (121) Venetian Harbor

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Michael W. McCarthy Joel Rosario (121) Jose Ortiz (121) (Aron Wellman) and Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone)

2019 Out for a Spin Paco Lopez (121) Restless Rider Jaywalk

Commonwealth Stable Dallas Stewart Brian Hernandez Jr. (121) Javier Castellano (121) (Sam Samsel)

2018 Monomoy Girl* Florent Geroux (121) Eskimo Kisses

Michael Dubb, Monomoy Stables Brad H. Cox Corey Lanerie (121) Brian Hernandez Jr. (121) (Sol Kumin), The Elkstone Group (Stuart Grant) and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso)

2017 Sailor’s Valentine Corey Lanerie (121) Daddys Lil Darling Someday Soon

Semaphore Racing Eddie Kenneally Robby Albarado (121) Jose Lezcano (121) (Dana E. Haugli) and Homewrecker Racing (Ricki and Ron Rashinski)

2016 Weep No More Corey Lanerie (121) Rachel’s Valentina Cathryn Sophia

Ashbrook Farm George R. Arnold II Florent Geroux (121) Javier Castellano (121) (Glen S. Bromagen)

2015 Lovely Maria* Kerwin Clark (121) Angela Renee

Brereton C. Jones J. Larry Jones John Velazquez (121) Brian Hernandez Jr. (121)

2014 dh-Room Service/Rosalind Shaun Bridgmohan (121)/Joel Rosario (121)

West, Gary and Mary/ Wayne Catalano/Kenneth G. McPeek Julien Leparoux (121) Polytrack Landaluce Educe Stables

2013 Emollient Mike Smith (121) Tuttipaesi (IRE) Kitten’s Point 1:43.49

9 Juddmonte Farms Inc. William I. Mott Alan Garcia (121) Edgar Prado (121) Polytrack (Khalid Abdullah)

2012 Karlovy Vary James Graham (121) Hard Not to Like Stephanie’s Kitten

3/4 Alex G. Campbell Jr. George R. Arnold II Robby Albarado (121) Julien Leparoux (121) Polytrack

2011 Lilacs and Lace Javier Castellano (121) Wyomia Kathmanblu

James Covello, Judy Hicks John P. Terranova II Freddie Lenclud (121) Alan Garcia (121) Polytrack and Kathryn Nikkel

2010 Evening Jewel Kent Desormeaux (121) It’s Tea Time She Be Wild

Braly Family Trust James M. Cassidy Alan Garcia (121) Jose Lezcano (121) Polytrack (Tom and Marilyn Braly)

2009 Hooh Why Corey Lanerie (121) Gozzip Girl Stardom Bound

Derby Daze Farms (Gail Gee) Donna L. Dupuy Miguel Mena (121) Mike Smith (121) Polytrack and Mark Hoffman

2008 Little Belle Rajiv Maragh (121) Bsharpsonata Proud Spell

Darley Stable Kiaran P. McLaughlin Eric Camacho (121) Gabriel Saez (121) Polytrack (Mohammed Al Maktoum)

2007 Christmas Kid Rene Douglas (121) Octave Dawn After Dawn

Edward P. Evans James A. Jerkens Garrett Gomez (121) Shaun Bridgmohan (121) Polytrack

2006 Bushfire Cornelio Velasquez (121) Wait a

Homewrecker Stable Eddie Kenneally John Velazquez (121) Victor Espinoza (121) (Ricki and Ron Rashinski)

2005 Sis City* Edgar Prado (121) Runway Model

Stonerside Stable Richard E. Dutrow Jr. Robby Albarado (121) Brice Blanc (121) (J. and R. McNair), Sanford Goldfarb, Joe Torre, Michael Dubb and Ira Davis

2004 Madcap Escapade* Rene Douglas (118) Ashado

W. Bruce Lunsford Frank L. Brothers Cornelio Velasquez (123) Robby Albarado (120)

2003 Elloluv Robby Albarado (120) Lady Tak

John Paul Reddam Craig Dollase Corey Lanerie (123) Jose Santos (116)

2002 Take Charge Lady* Tony D’Amico (123) Take The Cake

Select Stable (Feye Bach) Kenneth G. McPeek Rene Douglas (118) Jon Court (120)

Ashland Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2001 Fleet Renee

V.H.W. Stable Inc.

John Velazquez (116)

Michael W. Dickinson

Golden Ballet

Chris McCarron (123)

Richard Migliore (120) (Verne H. Winchell)

2000 Rings a Chime

Turf Side Stables

Shane Sellers (116)

Lonnie Arterburn

Zoftig

Marlon St. Julien (116)

Richard Migliore (116) (Joseph D. Kowal)

1999 Silverbulletday*

Michael E. Pegram

1998 Well Chosen

Mrs. John Magnier

Jerry Bailey (123) Marley Vale

Bob A. Baffert

Charles Woods Jr. (115)

D. Wayne Lukas

Robby Albarado (115)

Craig Perret (115)

Francisco Torres (115)

Randy Romero (120) and Michael Tabor

1997 Glitter Woman*

Joseph Allen

1996 My Flag*

Ogden Phipps

1995 Urbane*

Jan, Mace and Samantha Siegel

Mike Smith (121)

Claude R. McGaughey III

Jerry Bailey (121)

Claude R. McGaughey III

Eddie Delahoussaye (115)

Brian Mayberry

1994 Inside Information* Mike Smith (121)

Ogden Mills Phipps

1993 Lunar Spook

Willie Martinez (121)

Craig Perret (121)

Cara Rafaela Mackie

Donna Barton (121)

Conquistadoress

Claude R. McGaughey III

Shane Sellers (118)

Julie Krone (115) Sam Maple (121)

Brent Bartram (112) Pat Day (118)

Shane Sellers (121) Avie’s Shadow Roamin Rachel

Sandbar Farms (Barry Buchholz) J. Bert Sonnier

1992 Prospectors Delite

William S. Farish

1991 Do It With Style

Garrett Gomez (115) Chris Antley (115)

Craig Perret (121) Spinning

Neil J. Howard

Aaron Gryder (121) Fabio Arguello Jr. (121)

Shane Sellers (115) Private Treasure Til Forbid

D J Stable (Len Green) Gary Contessa Corey Black (121) Joe Deegan (112)

1990 Go for Wand*

Randy Romero (121) Charon Piper

Christiana Stables William Badgett Jr. Earlie Fires (121) Jim McKnight (112) (Jane duPont Lunger)

1989 Gorgeous*

Eddie Delahoussaye (118) Blondeinamotel Some Romance

Robert N. Clay Neil Drysdale Patrick Johnson (115) Craig Perret (121)

1988 Willa On the Move Chris McCarron (118) On to Royalty Colonial Waters

Lorraine Quinichett

1987 Chic Shirine

Leon J. Blusiewicz Craig Perret (121) Eddie Maple (121)

Sandy Hawley (118) Buryyourbelief Our Little Margie

Emory Alexander D. Wayne Lukas Alex Solis (113) Jacinto Vasquez (113)

1986 Classy Cathy Earlie Fires (116) She’s A Mystery Patricia

Edward A. Cox Jr. Joseph M. Bollero Don Brumfield (116) Richard Migliore (121)

1985 Koluctoo’s Jill

Brandy Hills Farm

1984 Enumerating

Randy Romero (118) Lucy Manette Foxy Deen

Bruce Levine

Craig Perret (121) Daryl Montoya (121)

Don Brumfield (114) Miss Oceana Rose of Ashes

Wells Hardesty, Ben P. Walden, Dennis Ebert

Dennis W. Ebert

Eddie Maple (121) Charles Woods Jr. (113)

1983 Princess Rooney* Jacinto Vasquez (121) Shamivor

Paula Tucker

Frank Gomez

1982 Blush With Pride* William Shoemaker (118)

Stonereath Farm

D. Wayne Lukas

Don Brumfield (114) Mark Sellers (116)

Jerry Bailey (116) Randy Romero (113)

1981 Truly Bound* William Shoemaker (121) Wayward Lass

Windfields Farm

1980 Flos Florum

(1st) Strapro Stable

1980 Sugar and Spice*

(2nd) Calumet Farm

1979 Candy Eclair*

Mrs. Henry D. Paxson

1978 Mucchina

Donald Newman

1977 Sound of Summer

Tony Busching and Cal Bernstein

1976 Optimistic Gal*

Mrs. Bertram R. Firestone

1975 Sun and Snow

C.V. Whitney

1974 Winged Wishes

(1st) Viola Brumfield

1974 Maud Muller

(2nd) Darby Dan Farm

1973 Raging Whirl

Glenn Hild

Grover G. Delp

Cash Asmussen (121) Jean-Luc Samyn (121)

Randy Romero (112) Cerada

William S. Borders

Jeff Fell (113)

John Veitch

Don Brumfield (114) A.J. Trosclair (116)

Richard dePass (114) Melvin Holland (116)

Anthony Black (121) Himalayan Countess North

Mary Edens

Don Brumfield (114) Richard dePass (115)

Jose Amy (113) Grenzen Bold Rendezvous

Alan B. Marcus

Darrel McHargue (121) Anthony Rini (118)

Fernando Toro (118) Mrs. Warren Our Mims

Thomas A. Pratt

Eddie Maple (121) Ron Turcotte (118)

Braulio Baeza (121) Alvarada Confort Zone

LeRoy Jolley

Eddie Delahoussaye (116) Julio C. Espinoza (113)

Garth Patterson (116) My Juliet Red Cross

George T. Poole

Alan Hill (116) Don Brumfield (114)

Don Brumfield (116) Cherished Moment Jay Bar Pet

David Kassen

Robert Ussery (117) Robert Breen (113)

Don Brumfield (114) Clemanna Irish Sonnet 1:27

T.L. Rondinello

Julio C. Espinoza (113) Kenny Knapp (119)

Weston Soirez (113) Protest A Little Lovin

Glen Hild

Angel Santiago (116) Kenneth Bourque (110)

Ashland Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1972 Barely Even*

Mrs. S.L. Gilmartin

1971 You All

C.V. Whitney

1970 Gay Missile

Michael G. Phipps

1969 Double Delta

Drymon & Greenslit

1968 Miss Swapsco

Roban Stable

1967 Dun-Cee

John L. Rotz (121) Wac La Brisa

Lou M. Goldfine

Mickey Solomone (114)

Robert Breen (115) HempensSongdisqualifiedfromfirstandplacedeighth.

Kenny Knapp (115) Deceit

George T. Poole

Walter Blum (121)

Mike Manganello (118)

Ray Broussard (116) Kankakee Miss Three Pigeons

Del W. Carroll

Jimmy Nichols (115)

Jim McKnight (118)

Carlos H. Marquez (115) Nutty Donut Bold Heiress

Stanley M. Rieser

Mike Miceli (121)

Craig Perret (115)

Doug Richard (115) Moss Fish

Stanley M. Rieser

Kenny Knapp (112)

William Harmatz (115) Furl Sail

Larry Welsch Ray Rivard

Don Brumfield (118)

1966 Justakiss R.J. Campbell (121) Prides Profile

Clifford Lussky

1965 Terentia

(1st) William Haggin Perry

1965 Bright Bauble

(2nd)

Stanley M. Rieser Ken Church (121)

Jimmy Nichols (112) May’s Guide

Jimmy Nichols (118)

Kenny Knapp (121)

Woman

Billy Phelps (118)

James W. Maloney R.J. Campbell (112) Don Pierce (115)

Kenny Knapp (115) Saber Dance

Mrs. Julius Potrykus Willard L. Proctor Billy Phelps (118)

1964 Blue Norther*

Don Pierce (121)

William Shoemaker (121) Silver Dollar Roman

Mrs. W.R. Hawn T.W. Dunn Don Brumfield (112) Jacinto Vasquez (115)

1963 Sally Ship Manuel Ycaza (113) Bonnie’s Girl

Cain Hoy Stable W.C. Stephens Ken Church (118) Herbert Hinojosa (115)

1962 Windy Miss* R.L. Baird (115) Summer Sea Fortunate Isle

Roy Sturgis Harold Tinker Billy Phelps (112) Elwood Eades (115)

1961 Goldflower Steve Brooks My Portrait

Mary V. Fisher Jack C. Hodgins John Heckmann (115) Mike Sorrentino (115)

1960 Tingle Herbert Hinojosa (112) Airmans Guide

Louis Lee Haggin II Howard Hoffman William Hartack (121) Manuel Ycaza (118)

1959 Hidden Talent John Sellers (115) Narrissa

1958

Cain Hoy Stable Woodford C. Stephens Chris Rogers (115) Ken Church (115)

Hartack (115)

(114)

Cain Hoy Stable Woodford C. Stephens James Bidwell (115)

(121)

Claiborne Farm Moody

Dr. Eslie Asbury

(115)

Ada L. Rice Howard Hoffman

1952 Free for Me J.D. Jessop (112)

(1st) Mr. & Mrs. T.M.

Arcaro (118)

E.C. Dobson Howard Craig (109)

Ferraiuolo (115) 1952

Arcaro (114)

(2nd) Calumet Farm Ben A. Jones Earl J. Knapp (115) Gerald Porch (115)

1951 Sickle’s Image*

Billie Fisk (121) Juliets

Clarence Hartwick Clarence Hartwick Gerald Porch (118)

1950 Wondring Henry Manifold (112)

(115)

Dixiana Jack C. Hodgins Ken Church (115) J.D. Jessop (115)

Woodvale Farm

W.C. Stephens

(115)

Andy LoTurco (115) L.C. Cook (115)

1948 Bewitch* N.L. Pierson (121) Silly Gyp

1947

Calumet Farm Ben A. Jones

W. Arnold Hanger

B.B. Williams

Melvin Peterson (115) Willie Garner (112)

George Hettinger (110 1/2) Harold Wallace (115)

1945** Come and Go C.L. Martin (112) Cross Bayou

Thomas Piatt J.P. Sallee Joseph Wagner (112) Doug Dodson (110)

1944** Harriet Sue* Jesse Higley (115) Darby Delilah Paddle

Hyman Friedberg

John Hanover

Billie Thompson (115) Michael Caffarella (109)

1943** Valdina Marl Ferril Zufelt (118) Nippy

Valdina Farm Frank Catrone Wendell Eads (115) Carrol Bierman (121)

1942 The Swallow* Eddie Arcaro (112) Spiral Pass

John Hay Whitney

Duval A. Headley Carrol Bierman (115) Jack Skelly (115)

Ashland Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1941 Valdina Myth Basil James (121) Laatokka

Valdina Farm J.J. Flanigan

1940 June Bee*

Bomar Stable

Albert Snider (112) Conn McCreary (115)

Ken McCombs (115) Flying Jane Miss Co-Ed

Edgar Barnes

Carrol Bierman (115) Jack Flinchum (112)

1937 Drowsy Robert Dotter (110) Ann Jones Sparta

sy 1 Greentree Stable

William Brennan

Harold Chall (110) Earl Steffen (115)

1936 Myrtlewood* George South (126) Sparta Wise Bressa 1:48 4/5 my 12 Brownell Combs R.A. Kindred John Gilbert (111 1/2) Joseph Cowley (110)

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Deadheatforvictory,2014.

RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014.

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Central Bank Ashland and Kentucky Oaks

• 35 fillies who raced in the Central Bank Ashland (G1) went on to win the Kentucky Oaks (G1). The most recent were Central Bank Ashland–Kentucky Oaks winners Malathaat (2021) and Monomoy Girl (2018). Recent notables are Cathryn Sophia (third in the 2016 Central Bank Ashland), champion Proud Spell (third in the 2008 Ashland) and Hall of Famer Ashado (second in the 2004 Ashland).

• 14 fillies have won both the Ashland and Kentucky Oaks: Valdina Myth (1941), Come and Go (1945), Hall of Famer Real Delight (1952), Hidden Talent (1959), Sally Ship (1963), Blue Norther (1964), Sun and Snow (1975), Optimistic Gal (1976), Blush With Pride (1982), Hall of Famer Princess Rooney (1983), Hall of Famer Silverbulletday (1999), Lovely Maria (2015), Monomoy Girl (2018) and Malathaat (2021).

Keeneland Sales Graduates Who Won the Central Bank Ashland since 1982

MiddleGroundCapital Beaumont Stakes (G2)

SponsoredbyMiddleGroundCapital

41st Running • Spring • 7 furlongs • 3-year-old fillies

The Beaumont is named in honor of the Beaumont Farm of Hal Price Headley, one of Keeneland’s founders. Previously run as an allowance race, the Beaumont was elevated to a stakes event for the 1986 Spring Meet. MiddleGround Capital began to sponsor the race in 2024.

Milestones – Beaumont Stakes

2025 Purse: $400,000

Largest Straight Payoff: $46.20, Exquisite Mistress, 1989

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.80, Go for Wand, 1990 Largest Field: 13, 1986

Smallest Field: 5, 2001; 2005; 2019; 2020; 2025 Largest Value to Winner: $248,000, Verity, 2025

Verity drew off to a 5¼-length victory in the MiddleGround Capital Beaumont (G2).

Beaumont Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Verity Vincent Cheminaud (118) Stunner

Godolphin Eoin G. Harty Flavien Prat (118)

Eliseo Ruiz (118) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2024 Denim and Pearls

Flavien Prat (118) Harbor Springs

Red, White and Blue Racing Brad H. Cox

Irad Ortiz Jr. (118)

(118) (Randy Gullatt)

2023 Key of Life*

Flavien Prat (118) Interpolate

Flurry Racing Stables (Staton C. Brad H. Cox

Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Luis Saez (118) Flurry) and Hoffman Family Racing (Gregory Hoffman)

2022 Matareya*

Flavien Prat (118) Radio Days

Godolphin Brad H. Cox Joel Rosario (118) Luis Saez (118) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2021 Twenty Carat Luis Saez (118) Slumber Party

Three Chimneys Farm Wesley A. Ward Joel Rosario (118) Tyler Gaffalione (118) (Goncalo B. Torrealba)

2020 Four Graces* Julien Leparoux (118) Sconsin

Whitham Thoroughbreds Ian R. Wilkes James Graham (118) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) (NTR) (Janis R. Whitham)

2019 Fancy Dress Party Luis Saez (118) Mother Mother Feedback

LNJ Foxwoods Ben Colebrook Florent Geroux (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) (sealed) (Larry, Nanci and Jaime Roth)

2018 Gas Station Sushi* Corey Nakatani (120) Kelly’s Humor

Riley Racing Stables Richard Baltas Jose Ortiz (118) Mike Smith (118) (Jerry Fialkowski), Jason Tackitt, Megan J. Tackitt and Mike Hensen

2017 Sweet Loretta* Javier Castellano (123) Sine Wave

St. Elias Stable (Vincent Viola) Todd A. Pletcher Florent Geroux (118) Julien Leparoux (118)

2016 Lightstream* Julien Leparoux (118)

Up Hill Stable (Leonard M. Zenith Brian Lynch Javier Castellano (123) John Velazquez (118) and Irma Desrochers) and Head of Plains Partners (Sol Kumin)

2015 Miss Ella Rajiv Maragh (118) Divine Dawn

Jack Swain III H. Graham Motion Kerwin Clark (118) John Velazquez (118)

2014 Ready to Act* Javier Castellano (118) Sweet Whiskey

Klaravich Stables Inc. and Chad C. Brown John Velazquez (118) Corey Lanerie (118) Polytrack William H. Lawrence

2013 Ciao Bella Luna Joel Rosario (118) Magical Moon

Gillian S. Campbell, Martin Racing Jerry Hollendorfer Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Mike Smith (118) Polytrack Stable (Bill Martin), Greenwood Lodge Farm Inc. (Carol and William McAlpin) and Car-Den Racing (Dennis Yokum)

Year Winner/Owner

Beaumont Stakes History

Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2012 Gypsy Robin Jeffrey Sanchez (118) Sacristy Livi Makenzie 1:28.46

3 King 9 Stables (Wes Welker), Wesley A. Ward

Julien Leparoux (118) Greta Kuntzweiler (118) Polytrack Gatewood Bell, Bret Jones and Wesley A. Ward

2011 Turbulent Descent* David Flores (123) Honey Chile Coax Liberty

Blinkers On Racing (Scott Mike Puype

Jose Lezcano (117) Garrett Gomez (117) Polytrack Sherwood), William Strauss and Robert Butler et al

2010 Franny Freud* Garrett Gomez (117) Chantilly Nayla Diva Delite

Paul Pompa Jr., Stephen John P. Terranova II

James Graham (117) Julien Leparoux (119) Polytrack Yarbrough and Anthony Grey

2009 War Kill

Julien Leparoux (117) Selva Consequence

Dixiana Stables Inc. Kenneth G. McPeek

Robby Albarado (117) John Velazquez (117) Polytrack (William Shively)

2008 Ariege Garrett Gomez (123) Golden Doc A Passion

IEAH Stables (Michael A. Iavarone) Robert J. Frankel

Rafael Bejarano (123) John Velazquez (119) Polytrack and Pegasus Holding Group Stables (James Tagliaferri)

2007 Street Sounds Edgar Prado (119) Forever Together Palace Pier

Hidden Creek Farm (Mike Pulaski) Michael R. Matz

Cornelio Velasquez (121) Robby Albarado (119) Polytrack

2006 Diplomat Lady Cornelio Velasquez (123) Lake Alice Wildcat Bettie

Charles Cono (Charles Cono) Christopher Paasch

2005 In the Gold*

Live Oak Plantation

Julien Leparoux (117) Terry Thompson (117)

Rafael Bejarano (117) Aspen Tree Hot Storm

Nicholas P. Zito

Javier Castellano (117) Jerry Bailey (119) (Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber)

2004 Victory U.S.A.

Jerry Bailey (118) Halfbridled Wildwood Flower

Thomas F. VanMeter II Bob A. Baffert

Alex Solis (123) Pat Day (118)

2003 My Boston Gal* Pat Day (120) Bird Town

C. Porter, R. Bloch and P. Milner Carl A. Nafzger

Eibar Coa (118) Edgar Prado (118)

2002 Proper Gamble Javier Castellano (118) Respectful Vicki Vallencourt

Stoneway Farm (James Stone)

Todd A. Pletcher

2001 Xtra Heat Rick Wilson (120)

Kenneth Taylor et al

2000 Sahara Gold

Stonerside Stable

Jerry Bailey (116) Robby Albarado (118)

John E. Salzman Sr. Corey Nakatani (116) Jerry Bailey (123)

Jerry Bailey (123) Swept Away

Claude R. McGaughey III Pat Day (118) Jorge Chavez (116) (Janice and Robert McNair)

1999 Swingin On Ice Robby Albarado (115)

James C. Spence

D. Wayne Lukas Jerry Bailey (119)

1997 dh-Make Haste/Screamer Pat Day (112)/Robby Albarado (112)

W.S. Farish/Mary Zuckerman Neil J. Howard/Mark Hennig

Dogwood Stable Nicholas P. Zito Rene Douglas (115)

(119)

(115) (W. Cothran Campbell)

1995 Dixieland Gold

Arthur I. Appleton

1994 Her

1993 Roamin Rachel*

Tri Honors Stable

Dave Penna (118) Niner’s Home

Lou M. Goldfine

(112)

Antley (122)

Claude R. McGaughey III

Craig Perret (113) Jose Santos (118)

(113)

Brian Peck (114) Pat Day (122) (W.S. Farish et al)

1992 Fluttery Danseur

Jan, Mace & Samantha Siegel

1991 Ifyoucouldseemenow

Jan, Mace & Samantha Siegel

1990 Go for Wand*

Christiana Stable

Shane Sellers (122) Miss Iron Smoke Spinning Round

Brian Mayberry

Martin Pedroza (122)

Brian Mayberry

Craig Perret (119) Jose Santos (122)

Jerry Bailey (114) Ricardo Lopez (114)

Randy Romero (122) Trumpet’s Blare Seaside Attraction

William Badgett Jr.

Craig Perret (119) Chris McCarron (119) (Jane duPont Lunger)

1989 Exquisite Mistress

Joseph E. Ladiner

Don Brumfield (117) Love’s Exchange Up

Joseph E. Broussard Jacinto Vasquez (114) Jesse Garcia (114) and Carson Kimbrough

1988 On to Royalty*

Hidden Oak Farm

1987 Fold the Flag

William S. Farish

Craig Perret (121) Plate Queen Tilt My Halo

Ben Perkins Jr. Charles Woods Jr. (121) Dave Penna (121)

Sandy Hawley (113) Bound Arctic Cloud

Del W. Carroll II Keith Allen (113) Jack Kaenel (118)

1986 Classy Cathy Earlie Fires (112) She’s A Mystery Close Tolerance

Edward A. Cox Jr.

Joseph M. Bollero Don Brumfield (119) Daryl Montoya (112)

*Winningfavorite. Runat7furlongs,184feet1986-2025.Runat7furlongs,2026. Listed,1986-1989;Grade3,1990-1992,2016-2022;Grade2,1993-2015,2023-present. RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014. BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnotholda2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisracewasrunduringthe SummerMeet.

Ben Ali Stakes (G3)

95th Running • Spring • 1 3/16 miles • 4-year-olds and up

The Ben Ali Stakes, named for noted Thoroughbred breeder and financier James Ben Ali Haggin (1821-1914), had its inaugural running at the Kentucky Association track in Lexington in 1917. Last run there in 1922, the Ben Ali was revived at Keeneland in the spring of 1937. From 1943-1945, the Ben Ali was renewed as a part of the Keeneland-at-Churchill Downs meetings. From 1979-2022, the race was run at 1 1/8 miles and was extended to 1 3/16 miles in 2023.

Milestones – Ben Ali Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000

Stakes Record: 1:56.48, Rattle N Roll, 2023

Largest Straight Payoff: $64.20, Gallant Moment, 1970

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.40, Louis Quatorze, 1997

Largest Field: 12, 1973; 1975; 2007

Smallest Field: 3, 1953

Largest Value to Winner: $211,575, Tennessee Lamb, 2025

Winning 3-Year-Old: Pot o’ Luck, 1945

Winning Fillies or Mares: Wistful, 1951

Highest Weight Carried by Winner: 124, Honest Pleasure, 1977; Swift Ruler, 1966; Fervent, 1948

Highest Weight Carried by a Starter: 126, Mount Marcy, 1951; Bet Twice, 1988

Ben Ali Stakes History

2025 Tennessee Lamb (4) Jose Ortiz (118) San Siro (4)

Calumet Farm (Brad Kelley) George R. Arnold II Edgar Morales (118)

2024 Kingsbarns* (4) Luis Saez (118) War Campaign (5)

Spendthrift Farm Todd A. Pletcher Tyler Gaffalione (118) John Velazquez (118) (Eric P. Gustavson)

2023 Rattle N Roll (4) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Call Me Fast (4)

Lucky Seven Stables Kenneth G. McPeek Julien Leparoux (118) Tyler Gaffalione (118) (Michael J. Mackin)

2022 Scalding (4) Javier Castellano (118) Dynamic One (4)

Grandview Equine (Robert Clay), Claude R. McGaughey III Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Cheyenne Stable (Everett Dobson) and LNJ Foxwoods (Larry, Nancy and Jaime Roth)

2021 Silver Dust (7) Adam Beschizza (118) Night Ops (5)

Tom R. Durant W. Bret Calhoun Javier Castellano (118) Luis Saez (118)

2020 Not run

2019 Bourbon Resolution (4) Chris Landeros (118) Nun the Less (7)

Bourbon Lane Stable Ian R. Wilkes Rodney Prescott (118) Javier Castellano (118) (Jamie Hill and Michael J. McMahon)

2018 Rated R Superstar (5) Javier Castellano (118) Chip Leader (6)

Radar Racing (Paul Parker) Kenneth G. McPeek John Velazquez (118)

2017 Watershed (5) Paco Lopez (118) Eagle (5)

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118)

Godolphin Racing Kiaran P. McLaughlin Robby Albarado (118) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118)

2016 Eagle* (4) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Noble Bird (5)

William S. Farish Neil Howard Julien Leparoux (118) Elvis Trujillo (118)

2015 Protonico (4) Javier Castellano (120) Neck ‘n Neck (6)

Sumaya U.S. Stable Todd A. Pletcher Julien Leparoux (118) Robby Albarado (118) (NTR) (Oussama Aboughazele)

2014 Frac Daddy (4) Alan Garcia (118) Stealcase (5) Nikki’s Sandcastle (7)

Magic City Thoroughbred Partners Kenneth G. McPeek Stewart Elliott (118) Corey Lanerie (123) Polytrack (Carter Stewart)

2013 Successful Dan* (7) Julien Leparoux (118) Boisterous (6)

Morton Fink

Charles LoPresti Joel Rosario (123)

Rosie Napravnik (118) Polytrack

2012 Wise Dan* (5) John Velazquez (123) Big Blue Kitten (4) Guys Reward (5)

Morton Fink

Charles LoPresti Javier Castellano (118)

Corey Lanerie (118) Polytrack

Ben Ali Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2011 Exhi* (4)

Wertheimer and Frere

Javier Castellano (117)

Todd A. Pletcher

Dean’s Kitten (4)

Julien Leparoux (117)

Mister Mardi Gras (4) 1:48.14

Rosie Napravnik (117) Polytrack (Alain and Gerard Wertheimer)

2010 Dubious Miss* (6)

David P. Holloway Racing Inc.

Calvin Borel (117) Kiss the Kid (7) Giant Oak (4)

Paul J. McGee

Rajiv Maragh (117) Shaun Bridgmohan (117) Polytrack (David P. Holloway)

2009 Parading (6)

Phipps Stable (O.M. Phipps et al)

2008 Sterwins (5)

Melnyk Racing Stables Inc.

Kent Desormeaux (117) Your Round (4) Monba (4)

Claude R. McGaughey III

Miguel Mena (117) Garrett Gomez (117) Polytrack

Shaun Bridgmohan (117) Go Between (5) Sir Whimsey (4) 1:48.53

Malcolm Pierce

Garrett Gomez (123)

Edgar Prado (121) Polytrack (Eugene Melnyk)

2007 Jade’s Revenge (4)

Kent Desormeaux (117)

Bushwood Stables H. Graham Motion

Minister’s Joy (5) Mustanfar (6)

John Velazquez (117) Fernando Jara (117) Polytrack (B. Johnson, K. Barth and C. Dwyer)

2006 Wanderin Boy* (5) Javier Castellano (117) Alumni Hall (7) Noble Causeway (4)

Arthur B. Hancock III

2005 Alumni Hall (6)

Nicholas P. Zito

Robby Albarado (121)

William S. Farish, Neil J. Howard

James A. Elkins Jr. and W. Temple Webber Jr.

Robby Albarado (117)

Pies Prospect (4)

Jeremy Rose (117)

Rafael Bejarano (123) Larry Melancon (117)

2004 Midway Road (4) Robby Albarado (116) Evening Attire (6)

William S. Farish

2003 Mineshaft * (4)

Neil J. Howard

(4)

Cornelio Velasquez (116) Calvin Borel (120) (NTR)

Robby Albarado (120) American Style (4) Metatron (4)

W.S. Farish, W.T. Webber Jr. Neil J. Howard Jerry Bailey (116) Kent Desormeaux (116) and J.A. Elkins Jr.

2002 Duckhorn * (5)

Michael B. Tabor

2001 Broken Vow* (4)

Jorge Chavez (116) Parade Leader (5) Connected (5)

Patrick B. Byrne

Pat Day (120)

Larry Melancon (118)

Edgar Prado (116) Perfect Cat (4) Jadada (6)

Pin Oak Stable H. Graham Motion Jerry Bailey (116) Corey Nakatani (116) (Josephine E. Abercrombie)

2000 Midway Magistrate* (6) Shane Sellers (116) Liberty Gold (6)

B M H Stable Rick Hiles Francisco Torres (116)

Early Warning (5) 1:49 ft no

Jorge Chavez (118) (Robert McMahan et al)

1999 Jazz Club* (4) Pat Day (115)

Smile Again (4)

Early Warning (4) 1:48

W.S. Farish and Joseph Jamail Neil J. Howard Jerry Bailey (115) Jorge Chavez (115)

1998 Storm Broker (4) Robby Albarado (114) Delay of Game (5) Gator Dancer (5) 1:48 1/5

hd Woodlynn Farm (Robert Hoeweler) James E. Baker Pat Day (119) Jose Santos (114)

1997 Louis Quatorze* (4) Pat Day (119) Knockadoon (5) King James (5) 1:49 3/5

W.J. Condren, Georgia Hofmann Nicholas P. Zito Willie Martinez (113) Jose Santos (113) and J.M. Cornacchia

1996 Knockadoon (4) Jerry Bailey (112) Halo’s Image (5) Thorny Crown (5) 1:48 4/5

W.K. Warren Jr. Anthony Reinstedler Pat Day (117) Mike Luzzi (113)

1995 Wildly Joyous* (4) Mickey Walls (114) Danville (4) Powerful Punch (6) 1:49 3/5

Woodlynn Farm (Robert James E. Baker Larry Melancon (117) Mike Smith (113) Hoeweler et al) (Lessee)

1994 Pistols and Roses* (5) Mike Smith (123) Sunny Sunrise (7) Compadre (4) 1:51

Willis Family Stables Inc. George Gianos Rick Wilson (119) Craig Perret (113) (Sheldon Willis)

1993 Sunny Sunrise (6) Rick Wilson (119) Conte Di Savoya (4) Prize Fight (4) 1:48 4/5 ft 3 Harry and Tom Meyerhoff Grover G. Delp Jose Santos (113) Patrick Johnson (112)

1992 dh-Profit Key (5)/Loach (4) Shane Sellers (113)/Patrick Valenzuela (117) Out of Place (5) 1:49 4/5

Joseph Allen and D. Wayne Lukas/Richard J. Lundy Herb McCauley (119) L. Don Mathis/Allen Paulson

1991 Sports View* (4) Craig Perret (119) Bright Again (4) Exemplary Leader (5) 1:49 3/5 ft hd Barry Beal, D. Wayne Lukas, D. Wayne Lukas Jerry Bailey (112) Corey Black (112) Edward A. Cox Jr., L.R. French

1990 Master Speaker (5) Jerry Bailey (121) Lac Ouimet (7) Silver Survivor (4) 1:49

Anderson Fowler V.W. Raines

Craig Perret (114) Art Madrid (119)

1989 Classic Account (4) Pat Day (114) Regal Classic (4) Brian’s Tme (4) 1:50 3/5

Laura Leigh Stables Terry Mason

Craig Perret (117 Angel Cordero Jr. (121) (Leslie E. Lunsford Jr.)

1988 Homebuilder (4) Don Brumfield (119) Bet Twice (4) Blue Buckaroo (5) 1:51 2/5

hd Ryehill Farm

Woodford C. Stephens

Craig Perret (126) Earlie Fires (117)

1987 Intrusion* (5) Sandy Hawley (111) Coaxing Mark (4) Blue Buckaroo (4) 1:49 3/5

Carl J. Maggio

Lee J. Rossi

Jack Kaenel (114) Don Brumfield (117)

1986 Czar Nijinsky (4) Herbert McCauley (119)= Little Missouri (4) Minneapple (4) 1:50 1/5

Jacqueline and Miguel Torrealba Jack Hofher

Frank Lovato Jr. (114) Pat Day (117)

3/4

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer

1985 Bello (4)

Lois Bollero

1984 Aspro (6)

Mrs. J. Bayard and Bayard

1983 Aspro (5)

Ben Ali Stakes History

2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

Gerland Gallitano (116) Silent King (4)

Joseph M. Bollero

Ronald Hirdes Jr. (117)

Don Brumfield (116) Play Fellow (4)

Estate Grover G. Delp Pat Day (123)

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bayard

1982 Withholding (5)

Russell Michael Jr.

1981 Withholding (4)

Russell Michael Jr.

1980 Architect (4)

Carl Lauer

1979 Kodiack (5)

Louis F. Aitken

1978 Prince Majestic* (4)

Mrs. Joe W. Brown

1977 Honest Pleasure* (4)

Bertram R. Firestone

Vincent Bracciale Jr. (115) Thirty Eight Paces (5)

Grover G. Delp

Donald Miller Jr. (116)

Larry Melancon (121) Aspro (4)

Ronnie Warren

Bernon Sayler (113)

Ronald Franklin (122)

Summer Advocate (4)

Randy Romero (113)

Jim McKnight (115)

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Jacinto Vasquez (121)

Dan Delahoussaye (113)

Ronnie Warren Pat Day (113) Walter Guerra (115)

Stanley Spencer (120)= Revivalist (6)

Harvey Vanier

William Nemeti (116)

Don Brumfield (116)

Gerland Gallitano (114) Hot Words (4) Morning Frolic (4)

Harvey Vanier

Robert Breen (113)

Eddie Delahoussaye (118) Inca Roca (5)

Dewey Smith

Julio C. Espinoza (114)

Craig Perret (124)= Inca Roca (4)

LeRoy Jolley

Julio C. Espinoza (118)

Don Brumfield (115)

Sam Maple (122)

Packer Captain (5)

Robert Breen (113)

1976 My Friend Gus (4) Darrel McHargue (114) Packer Captain (4) Dragset (5)

Patricia Blass

1975 Navajo* (5)

Doug Davis Jr. Eddie Delahoussaye (116) Garth Patterson (113)

Jimmy Nichols (122)= L. Grant Jr. (5)

Joe Stevenson & Ray Stump Jim Keefer Jim Combest (118) Heriberto Arroyo (115)

1974 Knight Counter (6) Earlie Fires (119) Model Husband (5)

Robert Huffman Victor A. Doleski Robert Ussery (117)

R. J. Campbell (113)

1973 Knight Counter* (5) Don Brumfield (120)= Hustlin Greek (4) Guitar Player (5)

Robert Huffman Victor A. Doleski Mike Manganello (120)

1972 Knight Counter* (4) Don Brumfield (114) No No Billy (5)

Leroy Moyers (118)

(4)

Robert Huffman Victor A. Doleski Robert Breen (115) Ray Broussard (117)

1971 Great Mystery (4) Phil I. Grimm (117) Early Fall (4) True North (5)

B.A. Dario Lyle Whiting Craig Perret (112) Eric Guerin (121)

1970 Gallant Moment (6) Dave Kassen (110) True North (4)

Circle M Farm Jack Long

Bold Favorite (5) 1:42 3/5

Jesse Davidson (114) Ray Broussard (118)

1969 Court Recess* (4) Eric Guerin (116) Miracle Hill (5)

Sword (4)

C.V. Whitney George T. Poole David Whited (119) Earlie Fires (111)

1968 Miracle Hill* (4) Robert Gallimore (121)= Gay Flight (4)

T.A. and J.E. Grissom Dewey Smith

Air Boat (4) 1:42 3/5

Jimmy Nichols (114) Vernon Saylor (113)

1967 Francis U. (4) R.J. Campbell (119) Swift Ruler (5) Moccasin (4) 1:45

Michael G. Phipps Del W. Carroll

Earlie Fires (120)

Kenny Knapp (116)

1966 Swift Ruler* (4) Larry Spraker (124)= Big Brigade (5) Charolero (7)

Earl Allen Gin L. Collins

Jimmy Nichols (117)

William Harmatz (114)

1965 Gallant Romeo (4) Kenny Knapp (114) Alphabet (4) Big Brigade (4)

J. Graham Brown Willard L. Proctor William Shoemaker (112) Don Brumfield (112)

1964 Copy Chief (4) Don Brumfield (117) dq-Choker (4)

Lemon Twist (4) 1:42

1/2 Fourth Estate Stable S. Bryant Ott Ken Church (118) Kelly Broussard (115) Chokerdisqualifiedfromfirstandplacedsecond.

1963 Decidedly (4) Jimmy Nichols (121)= Times Roman (4)

Glory (4)

El Peco Ranch Horatio A. Luro Ken Church (115) Avelino Gomez (114) (NTR) GunGlorydisqualifiedfromsecondandplacedthird.

1962 Run For Nurse (5) Steve Brooks (118) Bluescope (4)

(4)

J. Graham Brown Lee Niles John Heckmann (122) Howard Grant (122)

1961 Cactus Tom (4) Larney Hansman (114) Eight Again (4)

Careless John (4)

Natjolee Stable Thomas H. Stevens Sr. Ron Vincifora (117) Jimmy Nichols (120)

1960 Fulcrum (5) Steve Brooks (111) Dunce (4)

Shan Pac (6) 1:25

Mary V. Fisher Jack C. Hodgins Braulio Baeza (118) Larry Gilligan (112) (NTR)

1959 Greek Chief (4) William Hartack (113) Nadir (4) Gleeman (4)

Michael G. Phipps Thomas J. Kelly Steve Brooks (125) John Sellers (112)

1958 Safe Message (4) Doug Dodson (113) Shan Pac (4)

Dixiana Jack C. Hodgins

Ezgo (4) 1:26 2/5

John Heckmann (113) John Delahoussaye (121)

1957 Star Rover (5) John Heckmann (118) Sea O Erin (6) Tommy’s Jet (4) 1:25 3/5

Mrs. Irving Gushen Eddie Anspach William Hartack (118)

1956 Timely Tip (5) John L. Rotz (110) Sea O Erin (5)

Dave Erb (113) (ETR)

Breakers (6) 1:27 4/5 ft

A.L. Birch Reid Armstrong Ken Church (124) Dave Erb (113)

1955 Sea O Erin* (4) Steve Brooks (122)= Smoke Screen (6)

Mister Black (6)

Hasty House Farm Harry Trotsek John Heckmann (113) Johnny Adams (122)

1954 Mister Black (5) Johnny Adams (122)= Second Avenue (7) Greatest (4) 1:27 ft

Hasty House Farm Harry Trotsek Carrol Bierman (113)

Steve Brooks (112) (ETR)

Ben Ali Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1953 Oil Capitol* (6)

Conn McCreary (119)= Seaward (8)

Hasty House Farm and Harry Trotsek

Mrs. Harry Trotsek

1952 Seaward (7)

Hasty House Farm

1951 m-Wistful (5)

Calumet Farm

1950 Mount Marcy* (5)

C.V. Whitney

1949 Shy Guy* (4)

Dixiana

1948 Fervent* (4)

Calumet Farm

1947 Pot o’ Luck (5)

Calumet Farm

1946 Bull Play (4)

W.W. Jones

1945** Pot o’ Luck* (3)

Calumet Farm

1944** Alquest* (4)

A.C. Ernst

1943** Aletern (4)

A.C. Ernst

1942 Steel Heels* (6)

Junius W. Bell

1941 Red Dock (4)

Greentree Stable

1940 Arabs Arrow (6)

Louise J. Hickman

1939 Burning Star* (5)

Shandon Farm

1938 Main Man* (4)

J.B. Respess

1937 Count Morse (4)

Johnny Adams (110)

Steve Brooks (113) Ruhe (4)

Harry Trotsek

Doug Dodson (112)

Ben A. Jones

Breeze By (3) 1:44 sy 2 1/2

Forrest Kaelin (104)

Hedgewood (6) 1:45

Doug Dodson (114) Johnny Adams (110)

Counterpoint (3) Little Imp (4) 1:45

Earl J. Knapp (105)

Darrell Madden (110)

Ken Church (117)= Commodore Lea (4) Flying Disc (4) 1:43

Syl E. Veitch

A.D. Rivera (112) Eldon Nelson (103)

Conn McCreary (120)= Pellicle (6) Free America (4) 1:45 ft 5

Jack C. Hodgins

Gordon Glisson (106) Andy Lo Turco (114)

N.L. Pierson (124)= Colosal (5) Star Reward (4) 1:43 4/5

Ben A. Jones

Melvin Peterson (116) Steve Brooks (115)

Doug Dodson (121)= Jack S. L. (7)

Ben A. Jones

Steve Brooks (112)

Robert Campbell (109 1/2) Letmenow (5)

Lee Niles

Doug Dodson (110)

Ben A. Jones

Johnny Adams (113)

J.H. Skirvin

Johnny Adams (112)

J.H. Skirvin

George Hettinger (114)

Colonel Read (4)

Bymeabond (5) 1:44

Albert Bodiou (115)

South Dakota (4) 1:44

Ferril Zufelt (116)

Cold Crack (6)

Chalmer Basham (105) F.A. Smith (111)

Anticlimax (5)

N.L. Pierson (115)

Valdina Orphan (4)

Ferril Zufelt (123)

Parasang (7)

William Morrisey (110)

Corydon (6)

Jimmy Lynch (113)

James George (116)= Atrobarr (4) Get Off (6)

F.P. Letellier

Albert Bodiou (114)

E.L. Cotton

Joseph Dyer (116)

Viscounty (5)

Basil James (117)

Carrol Bierman (116) Shot Put (4)

Gilbert Hardy

Sterling Young (115)

Blue Pair (3) 1:46

Wendell Eads (106)

Easy Mon (4) 1:48 4/5 my 1/2

Albert Snider (106) F.A. Smith (122)

Warren Yarberry (120)= Birthday (4)

J.J. Greely Jr.

Arabs Arrow (5) 1:47 sl 1

Carrol Bierman (114) Joe Rosen (117)

W.F. Ward (120)= Old Nassau (4) Galsun (4) 1:45 ft 3/4

Howard Hoffman

Robert Dotter (110) Irving Anderson (110)

Irving Anderson (117)= Dellor (3)

Calumet Farm F.J. Kearns

White Tie (3) 1:46 1/5 sy 3

Basil James (108) Hilton Dabson (105)

*Winningfavorite. **RunatChurchillDowns. =-Topweight.m-mare.

Runat11/16milesfrom1937-1953and1963-1978.Runat7furlongsand184feetfrom1954-1962.

Runat11/8milesfrom1979-2022.Runat13/16milesfrom2023-present.

Grade3,1973-present.

RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014.

BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnotholda2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisracewasnotrunin2020.

Bewitch Stakes (G3)

PresentedbyKeenelandSales

64th Running • Spring • 1 1/2 miles (turf) • 4-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

Bewitch was one of Calumet Farm’s great race mares who retired in 1951 with earnings of $462,605. The Bewitch Stakes was inaugurated at Keeneland in the spring of 1962. From 1962-1978, the Bewitch was for 2-year-old fillies. From 1979-1985, the race matched fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and upward. Since 1986, the race has been run for fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and upward.

Milestones – Bewitch Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000

Stakes Record: 2:27 2/5, Bursting Forth, 1999

Largest Straight Payoff: $106.80, Jolie Dutch, 1980

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.60, Bold ’n Determined, 1981

Largest Field: 14, 2015

Smallest Field: 5, 1996; 2006; 2017; 2022; 2023

Largest Value to Winner: $211,575, Forever After All, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer

Bewitch Stakes History

Favored Forever After All coasted to a 9-length victory in the Bewitch (G3) to equal the record winning margin for the race set by Shore in the first division in 1966.

2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Forever After All* (6) Irad Ortiz Jr. (120) Youknownothing

Dixiana Farms (William Shively) Brendan P. Walsh

2024 Chop Chop (4) Axel Concepcion (118)

Selective (Jerry Bach) Brad H. Cox Joel Rosario (118)

Prat (120) 2023 War Like Goddess* (6) Joel Rosario (123) Temple City

George Krikorian William I. Mott

Jose Ortiz (120) Irad Ortiz Jr. (120)

2022 War Like Goddess* (5) Joel Rosario (118) Family Way (5)

George Krikorian William I. Mott

Tyler Gaffalione (120) Rafael Bejarano (118)

2021 War Like Goddess* (4) Julien Leparoux (120) Delta’s Kingdom (5)

George Krikorian William I. Mott Luis Saez (118) Rafael Bejarano (118)

2020 Not run

2019 Ickymasho (GB) (7) Jose Ortiz (118)

Gaining (GB) (5)

Coachwhip (5)

Triton Stable (Lincoln Collins) Roger L. Attfield Florent Geroux (120) Tyler Baze (118)

2018 Mom’s On Strike (5) Adam Beschizza (118) Daddys Lil Darling (4) Ickymasho (GB) (6)

Carl R. Moore Management, Joe Sharp Mike Smith (123)

Florent Geroux (118) (Carl R. Moore) and Brad Grady

2017 Quiet Business (4) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Daring Duchess (5) Dyna’s Recoleta (5) 2:31.50

1 Calumet Farm (Brad Kelley) George R. Arnold II Julien Leparoux (120) Jose Lezcano (118)

2016 Olorda (GER) (4) Julien Leparoux (120) Al’s Gal (5) Songoficeandfire (5) 2:30.09

Martin S. Schwartz Chad C. Brown Javier Castellano (118) Jose Lezcano (118) Haggin Course

2015 Kitten’s Point (5) Edgar Prado (120) Cay Dancer (GB) (4) Maria Maria (4)

Augustin Stable H. Graham Motion Joel Rosario (118) Florent Geroux (118) Haggin Course

2014 Inimitable Romanee (6) Alan Garcia (123) Aigue Marine (GB) (5) Caroline Thomas (4) 2:32.29

Gallagher’s Stud H. Graham Motion James Graham (118) Joseph Rocco Jr. (118) Haggin Course

2013 Strathnaver (GB) (4) Joel Rosario (118) Regalo Mia (4) Qushchi (GB) (5) 2:30.65

Andrew Stone H. Graham Motion Luis Contreras (120) Edgar Prado (118) Haggin Course

2012 Upperline (5) James Graham (119) Woodford Belle (5) Senada (5)

Stone Farm (Arthur B. Hancock III), Michael Stidham Julien Leparoux (119) Javier Castellano (121) Haggin Course

John H. Adger, Oak Crest Farm (Jack Hodge) and Michael Stidham

2011 Keertana* (5) Jose Lezcano (122) My Baby Baby (6) Honimiere (IRE) (5)

Barbara Hunter

Thomas F. Proctor Alan Garcia (118) Javier Castellano (118) Haggin Course

2010 Lady Shakespeare* (4) John R. Velazquez (118) Changing Skies (IRE) (5) Sweet and Flawless (4)

Charles E. Fipke

Roger L. Attfield Kent Desormeaux (122) Junior Alvarado (118) Haggin Course

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer

2009 Winter View (5)

Augustin Stable

Julien Leparoux (118)

Jonathan E. Sheppard

Bewitch Stakes History

2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

Communique (5)

Dress Rehearsal (IRE) (4) 2:34.11 fm 2

Garrett Gomez (118) Kent Desormeaux (122) Haggin Course (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2008 Communique (4)

G. Watts Humphrey Jr.

2007 Safari Queen (ARG)* (5)

Arindel Farm (Alan Cohen)

2006 Noble Stella (GER)* (5)

Gary A. Tanaka

2005 Angara (GB)* (4)

Martin S. Schwartz

2004 Meridiana (GER) (4)

Sarah and Jon Kelly

2003 Lilac Queen (GER)* (5)

Gary A. Tanaka

2002 Sweetest Thing * (4)

Roger L. Attfield, Michael Canino

Garrett Gomez (118) Tejida (5) Rising Cross (GB) (5) 2:28.91 fm 1/2

George R. Arnold II

John Velazquez (124)

Todd A. Pletcher

Javier Castellano (118) Kent Desormeaux (118) Keeneland Course

Barancella (FR) (6) Moon Berry (BRZ) (6) 2:28.75 fm 2

Javier Castellano (118) Kent Desormeaux (118) Keeneland Course

Edgar Prado (118) Louve Royale (IRE) (5) Sweet Science (5) 2:33.15 fm 1/2

Roger L. Attfield

Julien Leparoux (118) Rafael Bejarano (118) Keeneland Course

Gary Stevens (118) Cape Town Lass (4) Strike Me Lucky (4) 2:36.24 gd 1 3/4

Patrick L. Biancone

Edgar Prado (118)

Christophe Clement

Jerry Bailey (116)

Robert J. Frankel

James Graham (118) Rafael Mojica Jr. (118) Keeneland Course

Alternate (5) Binya (GER) (5) 2:31.05 gd no

Cornelio Velasquez (116) John Velazquez (118) Keeneland Course

Beyond the Waves (6) San Dare (5) 2:29.70 fm

Pat Day (116) Mark Guidry (118) Haggin Course

Mark Guidry (120) Lapuma (5) Lady Upstage (IRE) (5) 2:31.97 fm 3 1/2

Roger L. Attfield

Larry Melancon (116) Jerry Bailey (116) Haggin Course and William Werner

2001 Keemoon (FR) (5)

Henry E. Pabst

Jerry Bailey (120) Playact (IRE) (4) Krisada (5) 2:30.28

Neil Drysdale

2000 The Seven Seas (4) Alex Solis (116)

Charles Kenis

1999 Bursting Forth (5)

Robert J. Frankel

Corey Nakatani (116) Mike Smith (116) Haggin Course

Innuendo (IRE) (5) Hollywood Baldcat (4) 2:29 1/5

Jose Santos (116) Robby Albarado (116) Haggin Course

Jorge Chavez (114) Moments of Magic (4) Pinafore Park (4)

Sam Huff H. Graham Motion Shane Sellers (114) Jose Santos (114) Haggin Course (NCR)

1998 Maxzene* (5) Jose Santos (113) Cuando (4) Gastronomical (5) 2:30 2/5

1/2 Fusao Sekiguchi

Thomas J. Skiffington

Willie Martinez (113) Shane Sellers (113) Haggin Course

1997 Cymbala (FR)* (4) Pat Day (113) Noble Cause (4) Last Approach (5) 2:28 4/5

W.S. Farish Jr., G. Bolton, Neil J. Howard

Shane Sellers (113) Julie Krone (113) Haggin Course and J. Reynolds

1996 Memories (IRE)* (5) Shane Sellers (117) Future Act (4) Curtain Raiser (4) 2:30 fm

New Phoenix Stable Burk Kessinger Jr. Pat Day (117) Jose Santos (114) Haggin Course (G. Drake) and Alvin Haynes

1995 Market Booster (6) Pat Day (119) Memories (IRE) (4) Abigailthewife (6) 2:29 1/5 fm 1/2

Moyglare Stud (Walter Haefner) D. Wayne Lukas

Shane Sellers (113) Jerry Bailey (114) Haggin Course

1994 Freewheel (5) Pat Day (114) Key Chance (5) Amal Hayati (4) 1:50 1/5 fm 2

W.S. Farish and E.J. Hudson

Neil J. Howard Joe Steiner (114) Jose Santos (119) Haggin Course

1993 Miss Lenora (4) Julie Krone (112) Hero’s Love (5) Radiant Ring (5) 1:50 3/5 fm nk Allen E. Paulson

1992 La Gueriere (4)

William I. Mott

Dave Penna (117) Craig Perret (119) Haggin Course

Brian Peck (114) Indian Fashion (5) Plenty of Grace (5) 1:48 1/5 fm 1/2

Wimborne Farm (Diane L. Perkins) A. Peter Perkins

Jerry Bailey (117) Julie Krone (112) Haggin Course

1991 Miss Unnameable (7) Pat Day (112) Cheerful Spree (4) The Caretaker (4) 1:50 fm 1/2

L. Don Mathis D. Wayne Lukas

Shane Sellers (117) Craig Perret (112)

1990 Coolawin (4) Jerry Bailey (122) To the Lighthouse (4) Ann Alleged (5) 1:49 1/5 fm 1

Jim Tafel

1989 Gaily Gaily (6)

Mrs. Bertram Firestone

Carl A. Nafzger

Randy Romero (114) Pat Day (112)

Julie Krone (122) Chez Chez Chez (5) Blossoming Beauty (4) 1:50 fm nk

William I. Mott

Don Brumfield (114) Randy Romero (113)

1988 Beauty Cream (5) Pat Day (121) Native Mommy (5) Fraulein Lieber (4) 1:51 3/5 fm 2

Warren N. Moore

Patrick Clark

Don Brumfield (121) Craig Perret (113)

1987 Gerrie Singer (6) Ricky Frazier (113) Innsbruck (4) Debutant Dancer (5) 1:52 3/5 fm 1/2

John J. Petre

Jeff Trosclair

Pat Day (110) Larry Melancon (110)

1986 Devalois (FR)* (4) Eddie Maple (118) Debutant Dancer (4) Natural Approach (5) 1:54

Mrs. Alec Head

1985 Sintra* (4)

Cherry Valley Farm

1984 Heatherten* (5)

John Franks

Woodford C. Stephens

Larry Melancon (113) Daryl Montoya (113)

Keith Allen (119) Electric Fanny (4) Switching Trick (5) 1:43

Steve Penrod

Pat Day (110) Daryl Montoya (110)

Sam Maple (119) Any Spray (4) Marisma (6)

William I. Mott

Dave Byrnes (110) Kenny Black (119)

1983 Try Something New (4) Pat Day (110) Kattegat’s Pride (4)

John A. Bell III

Claude R. McGaughey III

1982 Expressive Dance* (4) Don Brumfield (116)

Mrs. Bertram Firestone

Bertram R. Firestone

Donald Miller Jr. (119)

Number (4)

Eddie Maple (119)

Mean Martha (4) Really Royal (4)

Sam Maple (110) John Lively (116)

1981 Bold ‘n Determined* (4) Eddie Delahoussaye (121) Likely Exchange (7) Save Wild Life (4)

Saron Stable

1980 Jolie Dutch (4)

Susan B. Fisher

Neil Drysdale

David Dennie (113) Pat Day (110)

Randy Romero (113) Miss Baja (5) Mi Muchacha (5)

Anthony J. Lombardi

Eddie Maple (112) Alonzo Guajardo (113)

1979 Miss Baja* (4) Eddie Maple (119) Likely Exchange (5) Plain and Simple (4)

Lockhart Spears

Joe Cantey

Mark Sellers (110) Julio C. Espinoza (113)

Bewitch Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1978 Twenty One Inch* (2)

Bwamazon Farm

1977 Crystalan (2)

Ray Parker

1976 Olden* (2)

(1st)

J.H. Stone

1976 Fun and Tears* (2)

(2nd)

Patricia Blass

1975 Pink Jade (2)

Hoi Toi Stable

Eddie Delahoussaye (119) All’s Well (2)

Anthony Basile

Don Brumfield (119)

Garth Patterson (119) No No-Nos (2)

Glenn Hild

Don Brumfield (119)

Satan’s Pride (2) :52 3/5

Mike Manganello (116)

Surprise Trip (2) :53

Robert Breen (119)

Robert Breen (116) Bagiorix (2) Foreverness (2)

Lloyd P. Tate

Mike Miceli (116)

Larry Melancon (119) Miss Cigarette (2)

Doug Davis Jr.

Garth Patterson (119)

Eddie Delahoussaye (119) Old Goat (2)

John Ngai Jr.

Don Brumfield (119)

William Gavidia (119)

Every Move (2)

Julio C. Espinoza (116)

T.V. Vixen (2)

Bernard Walt (119)

1974 Dancing Home (2) Alan Patterson (116) Semi Princess (2) Spark (2)

(1st)

J.F. Smith

Don Breashear Garth Patterson (119)

1974 Secret’s Out* (2) Don Brumfield (119) Floral Princess (2)

(2nd) Marcia Schott

James E. Picou

Robert Breen (116)

Tommy Wallis (116)

Easy (2)

Earlie Fires (119)

1973 Me and Connie (2) Jimmy Nichols (121) Lady Bahia (2) Bundler (2)

Patricia Blass

1972 Gallant Davelle* (2)

(1st) George M. Holtsinger

1972 Bosuns Strike (2)

(2nd) Joan Turner

1971 Sidle (2)

Doug Davis Jr. Mike Manganello (115)

Jimmy Nichols (121) All in Fun (2)

Doug Davis Jr. Robert Kotenko (111)

Anthony DeSpirito (114)

Walter Blum (115)

(2)

Mickey Solomone (114)

Barrister Girl (2) Say Cheesecake (2)

Doug Davis Jr. Ray Broussard (114)

David Kassen (114)

Jesse Davidson (111)

Swing Step (2) Missy

(1st) Barbara Hunter Stanley M. Rieser Eric Guerin (116) Kenny Knapp (114)

1971 Cautious Bidder (2) Jimmy Nichols (115) Apple Jackie (2)

(2nd) Larry Robideaux Jr. Larry Robideaux Jr. Don Brumfield (114) Craig Perret (114) LittleQueenswaredisqualifiedfromsecondandplacedthird.

1970 Fancy Road (2) Nelson Menard (119) Misty Joy (2)

Holda (2)

Dreabon Copeland Roy J. Gillem Jim McKnight (114) Tommy Sisum (111)

1969 Little Tudor (2) David Whited (114) Glenary (2) Pussy Footing (2)

Carter Thornton Carter Thornton Mike Manganello (114)

1968 Royality Note (2) Mike Manganello (114) Alert Princess (2)

Carlos H. Marquez (112)

Artist Johanna (2) :51

James O. Alston Thomas H. Stevens Sr. Ismael Valenzuela (114) Ray Broussard (114) (ETR)

1967 Jet to Market* (2) Grady Overton (119) Blue Carbon (2)

Roger W. Wilson and T.P. Hull Jr. Dave Erb Don Brumfield (114) Kenny Knapp (114)

1966 Shore* (2) Jimmy Nichols (115) Lotta Miss (2)

Lady Goldie (2)

(1st) Claiborne Farm Harry Trotsek Mike Manganello (114) Billy Phelps (113)

1966 Furl Sail* (2) Earlie Fires (114) Idle Dreamer (2) Ritanita (2)

(2nd) Mrs. E.K. Thomas John Winans P.J. Bailey (119)

1965 Justakiss* (2) Kenny Knapp (114) Hurry Star (2)

Mike Manganello (114)

Balafib (2)

(1st) Clifford Lussky Stanley M. Rieser Billy Phelps (114) Danny Gargan (114)

1965 Ole Liz* (2) William Shoemaker (119) dh-Champagne Woman (2)/Sturdy Gerty (2) :52

(2nd) Henry Forrest and Elton Gordon Henry Forrest Don Brumfield (114)/Jimmy Nichols (115)

1964 Mississippi Mama (2) Ronnie Baldwin (114) Swoon’s Tune (2) Wing Revoked (2)

Michael and Doug Davis Jr. Doug Davis Jr. Jacinto Vasquez (114) Kenny Knapp (114) (ETR)

1963 Royal Bund (2) Avelino Gomez (114) Cadabra (2) Vera T. (2)

Bwamazon Farm Frank E. Cundall Dave Kassen (114) Jimmy Nichols (114)

1962 Bonnie’s Girl (2) Clarence Meaux (114) Nalee (2)

The Smoocher (2)

J.H. Reidinger E.T. Colglazier Jimmy Lynch (111) R.L. Baird (114) (ETR)

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Horses Who Won Stakes Three Consecutive Years

Royal Harmony (Fayette in 1969, 1970 and 1971) Knight Counter (Ben Ali in 1972, 1973 and 1974) War Like Goddess (Bewitch in 2021, 2022 and 2023)

Toyota Blue Grass Stakes® (G1)

SponsoredbyToyota

102nd Running • Spring • 1 1/8 miles • 3-year-olds

The Blue Grass Stakes was named for the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, which is characterized by grass having bluish-green culms and is known as the heart of the Thoroughbred breeding industry. First run at the Kentucky Association track in Lexington in 1911, the Blue Grass has, from its inception, served as an important prep for the Kentucky Derby. At the Association track, the Blue Grass was staged from 1911-1914 and 1919-1926. The race was revived at Keeneland in the spring of 1937. In 1943-1944, the Blue Grass was renewed as a part of the Keeneland-at-Churchill Downs meetings. In 1945, the Blue Grass was run as a part of the Churchill Downs meeting. Toyota became the sponsor in 1996. The purse of the race was $1 million in 2015-2019 and 2022-2024 and became $1.25 million in 2025.

Milestones – Blue Grass Stakes

2025 Purse: $1,250,000

Stakes Record: 1:47 1/5, Skip Away, 1996

Largest Straight Payoff: $82.20, Stately Victor, 2010

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.10, Spectacular Bid, 1979

Largest Field: 14, 1954; 1974; 2013; 2014; 2016; 2018; 2019

Smallest Field: 3, 1940; 1942; 1966

Largest Value to Winner: $755,625, Burnham Square, 2025

Owner-Trainer Combination: Warren A. Croll Jr., Holy Bull, 1994; Thomas R. McCarthy, General Quarters, 2009

Maiden Winner: Irap, 2017

Albaugh Family Stable (Dennis Albaugh) – Brody’s Cause, 2016

Alesia, Sharon, Bran Jam Stable and Ciaglia Racing – Dance With Fate, 2014

Appleton, Arthur I. – My Gallant, 1973

Arnemann, Jurgen K. – Wild Syn, 1995

Bradley, E. R. – Bimelech, 1940

Brant, Peter M., Mrs. John Magnier, Michael B. Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg Limited (Michael Kuessner) and Brook T. Smith –Sierra Leone, 2024

Brophy, B. Giles, William J. Condren and Joseph M. Cornacchia – Strike the Gold, 1991

Cain Hoy Stable – Racing Fool, 1955

Calumet Farm – Bull Lea, 1938; Ocean Wave, 1943; Faultless, 1947; Coaltown, 1948; Forward Pass, 1968; Alydar, 1978

Celtic Pride Stable (Rick Pitino) – Halory Hunter, 1998

Christiana Stable (Jane du Pont Lunger) –Linkage, 1982

Claiborne Farm (Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.) –Pulpit, 1997

Conway, F. Thomas and Jack Conway –Stately Victor, 2010

Croll Jr., Warren A. – Holy Bull, 1994

Darby Dan Farm – Chateaugay, 1963

Denemark, Mrs. Emil – Ruhe (2nd div.), 1951

Dogwood Stable (W. Cothran Campbell) –Summer Squall, 1990

Donegal Racing (Jerry Crawford) – Dullahan, 2012

Drown, Jeff – Zandon, 2022

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds (Robert J. Edwards Jr.) and Stonestreet Stables (Barbara Banke) – Good Magic, 2018

Fipke, Charles E. – Java’s War, 2013

Firestone, Bertram R. – Honest Pleasure, 1976

Gainesway, Robert Entenmann, Stanley M. Hough, and Malcolm H. Winfield et al –Proud Appeal, 1981

Gann, Edmund A. – Peace Rules, 2003

a Tuesday. The race was rescheduled from the previous Saturday because of severe weather and significant rainfall in Central Kentucky.

Owners – Blue Grass Stakes

Gatsas Stables (Michael Gatsas) and R. A. Hill Stable (Raymond A. Hill III) – Vekoma, 2019

Gentry, Tom – War, 1987

Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al) –Essential Quality, 2021

Goff, M.B. – Skytracer, 1944

Golden Chance Farm Inc. – Master Derby, 1975

Grand Prix Stable – Abe’s Hope, 1966

Greentree Stable – Shut Out, 1942

Guiberson, Mrs. Gordon – Correspondent, 1953

Hancock III, Arthur B., and James H. Stone –Menifee, 1999

Hancock, Seth W. – Judger, 1974

Hawksworth Farm – Spectacular Bid, 1979

Heerensperger, David and Jill –Millennium Wind, 2001

Hine, Carolyn – Skip Away, 1996

Howard, Maxwell – Fencing, 1937

Jolley, Mrs. Moody, Ernest Woods and John L. Greer – Ridan, 1962

Kerr Stable – Round Table, 1957

Lanni Family Trust (J. Terrence Lanni), Mercedes Stable (Ernie Moody) and Bernard C. Schiappa – Sinister Minister, 2006

LaPenta, Robert V. – The Cliff’s Edge, 2004

Lehmann, Robert E. – Dust Commander, 1970

Lewis, Mrs. W.G. – Darby Dieppe, 1945

Live Oak Plantation (Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber) – Brilliant Speed, 2011

Loblolly Stable (John Ed Anthony) – Prairie Bayou, 1993

Lucas, William F. – Taylor’s Special, 1984

Lunsford, W. Bruce – Art Collector, 2020

Maine Chance Farm – Lord Boswell, 1946

McCarthy, Thomas R. – General Quarters, 2009

Meadow Stable – Riva Ridge, 1972

Oak, Harry A. – Rockhill Native, 1980

Peltier, Harvey – Diplomat Way, 1967

Potter Jr., Edward – Plion, 1958

Reddam Racing (John Paul Reddam) – Irap, 2017

Rice, Ada L. – Lucky Debonair, 1965

Robins, Gerald – For the Moment, 1977

Rokeby Stable – Arts and Letters, 1969

Rosso, W.P. – Impetuosity, 1971

Sher, Jacob – Sherluck, 1961

Silverton Hill (Tommy and Bonnie Hamilton) – Dominican, 2007

Star Crown Stable and Three Chimneys Farm – Chief’s Crown, 1985

Starlight Stable (Jack Wolf) – Harlan’s Holiday, 2002

Starlight Stable (Jack Wolf), Donald J. Lucarelli and Paul Saylor – Monba, 2008

Stavro, Steve A. – Granacus, 1988

Tabor, Michael, Robert and Beverly Lewis, Mrs. John Magnier et al – High Yield, 2000

Tabor, Michael and Derrick Smith – Bandini, 2005

Turner Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Fred – Tomy Lee, 1959

Van Deren & Deming – Toby B., 1956

Vanier, Nancy, Carl Lauer and Robert Victor – Play Fellow, 1983

Vanier, Nancy A. & Raymond Roncari –Western Playboy, 1989

Waterfield, Richard A. and Jack A. Tafel –Bachelor Beau, 1986

Whisper Hill Farm (Amanda Pope) and Gainesway Stable (Antony Beck) – Tapit Trice, 2023

Whitham Thoroughbreds (Janis R. Whitham) –Burnham Square, 2025

Whitney, C.V. – Mr. Trouble, 1950; Mameluke (1st div.),1951; Tompion, 1960

Whitney, John Hay – Heather Broom, 1939

Willis Family Stables Inc. – Pistols and Roses, 1992

Wilson Jr., Sam E. – Gushing Oil, 1952

Windfields Farm – Northern Dancer, 1964

WinStar Farm and Stonestreet Stables – Carpe Diem, 2015

Woodvale Farm – Our Boots, 1941; Halt, 1949; Goyamo, 1954

Adams, William E. – Master Derby, 1975

Albertrani, Thomas – Brilliant Speed, 2011

Arnemann, Thomas K. – Wild Syn, 1995

Baffert, Bob A. – Sinister Minister, 2006

Bohannan, Thomas – Prairie Bayou, 1993

Brothers, Frank – Pulpit, 1997

Brown, Chad C. – Good Magic, 2018; Zandon, 2022; Sierra Leone, 2024

Burch, Elliott – Arts and Letters, 1969

Carroll, Del W. – Abe’s Hope, 1966

Catrone, Frank – Lucky Debonair, 1965

Childs, Frank – Tomy Lee, 1959

Clark, Henry – Linkage, 1982

Collins, Patrick – Granacus, 1988

Combs, Don – Dust Commander, 1970

Conway, James P. – Chateaugay, 1963

Cox, Brad H. – Essential Quality, 2021

Croll Jr., Warren A. – Holy Bull, 1994

Delp, Grover G. – Spectacular Bid, 1979

Dunn, T.W. – Correspondent, 1953

Drury Jr., Thomas – Art Collector, 2020

Eurton, Peter – Dance With Fate, 2014

Forrest, Henry – Forward Pass, 1968

Frankel, Robert J. – Peace Rules, 2003

Gaver, John – Shut Out, 1942

Gentry, Charles – Darby Dieppe, 1945

Gentry, Loyd – Racing Fool, 1955

Gianos, George – Pistols and Roses, 1992

Trainers – Blue Grass Stakes

Goldfine, Lou M. – My Gallant, 1973

Hauswald, Philip M. – Bachelor Beau, 1986

Hine, Hubert – Skip Away, 1996

Hofmans, David E. – Millennium Wind, 2001

Hough, Stanley M. – Proud Appeal, 1981

Howard, Neil J. – Summer Squall, 1990

Hurley, William – Bimelech, 1940

Jansen, Joe – Gushing Oil, 1952

Jolley, LeRoy – Ridan, 1962; Honest Pleasure, 1976; For The Moment, 1977

Jolley, Tom – Plion, 1958

Jones, Ben A. – Ocean Wave, 1943; Faultless, 1947; Coaltown, 1948

Judge, Steve – Our Boots, 1941

Kearns, F.J. – Bull Lea, 1938

Laurin, Lucien – Riva Ridge, 1972

Laurin, Roger – Chief’s Crown, 1985

Lukas, D. Wayne – War, 1987; High Yield, 2000

Luro, Horatio A. – Northern Dancer, 1964

Maker, Michael J. – Stately Victor, 2010

McCarthy, Thomas R. – General Quarters, 2009

McGarvey, Robert – Ruhe (2nd div.), 1951

McPeek, Kenny G. – Harlan’s Holiday, 2002; Java’s War, 2013

Meaux, J.O. – Diplomat Way, 1967

Miller, Darrin – Dominican, 2007

Molter, Willie – Round Table, 1957

Jockeys – Blue Grass Stakes

Mott, William I. – Taylor’s Special, 1984

O’Neill, Doug F. – Irap, 2017

Pletcher, Todd A. – Bandini, 2005; Monba, 2008; Carpe Diem, 2015; Tapit Trice, 2023

Poole, George T. – Impetuosity, 1971

Romans, Dale L. – Dullahan, 2012; Brody’s Cause, 2016

Sande, Earl – Fencing, 1937; Heather Broom, 1939

Smith, James – Lord Boswell, 1946

Steiger, E.W. – Skytracer, 1944

Stephens, Woodford C. – Halt, 1949; Goyamo, 1954; Judger, 1974

Stevens, Herbert K. – Rockhill Native, 1980

Vanier, Harvey – Play Fellow, 1983; Western Playboy, 1989

Veitch, John – Alydar, 1978

Veitch, Syl E. – Mr. Trouble, 1950; Mameluke (1st div.), 1951

Walden, W. Elliott – Menifee, 1999

Weaver, George – Vekoma, 2019

Wheeler, Robert L. – Tompion, 1960

Wilkes, Ian R. – Burnham Square, 2025

Wingfield, R.E. – Toby B., 1956

Young, Harold – Sherluck, 1961

Zito, Nicholas P. – Strike the Gold, 1991; Halory Hunter, 1998; The Cliff’s Edge, 2004

Adair, Ray – Mameluke (1st div.), 1951

Anderson, Irving – Bull Lea, 1938

Antley, Chris – Strike the Gold, 1991

Arcaro, Eddie – Shut Out, 1942; Lord Boswell, 1946; Correspondent, 1953; Goyamo, 1954

Baeza, Braulio – Sherluck, 1961; Chateaugay, 1963; Honest Pleasure, 1976

Bejarano, Rafael – Dominican, 2007

Baird, R.L. – Toby B., 1956

Brooks, Steve – Gushing Oil, 1952

Caffarella, Michael – Skytracer, 1944

Calvert, Melvin – Darby Dieppe, 1945

Castellano, Javier – Vekoma, 2019

Coa, Eibar – General Quarters, 2009

Cordero Jr., Angel – My Gallant, 1973; For the Moment, 1977

Cruguet, Jean – Play Fellow, 1983 Day, Pat – Taylor’s Special, 1984; Summer Squall, 1990; Menifee, 1999; High Yield, 2000

Desormeaux, Kent – Dullahan, 2012

Dodson, Doug – Faultless, 1947; Mr. Trouble, 1950

Eads, Wendell – Ocean Wave, 1943

Erb, Dave – Plion, 1958

Fell, Jeff – Proud Appeal, 1981

Franklin, Ronald – Spectacular Bid, 1979

Gaffalione, Tyler – Sierra Leone, 2024

Garcia, Alan – Stately Victor, 2010

Gomez, Garrett – Sinister Minister, 2006

Guerin, Eric – Impetuosity, 1971

Hartack, William – Northern Dancer, 1964

Hernandez Jr., Brian – Art Collector, 2020; Burnham Square, 2025

James, Basil – Heather Broom, 1939

Jessop, J.D. – Ruhe (2nd div.), 1951

Leparoux, Julien – Java’s War, 2013; Irap, 2017

MacBeth, Don – Chief’s Crown, 1985

Manganello, Mike – Dust Commander, 1970

McCauley, Herb – War, 1987

McCreary, Conn – Our Boots, 1941; Halt, 1949

McHargue, Darrel – Master Derby, 1975

Melancon, Larry – Bachelor Beau, 1986

Moreno, Henry – Racing Fool, 1955

Nakatani, Corey – Dance With Fate, 2014

Neves, Ralph – Round Table, 1957

Oldham, John – Rockhill Native, 1980

Ortiz, Jose – Good Magic, 2018

Pierson, N.L. – Coaltown, 1948

Pincay Jr., Laffit – Judger, 1974; Millennium Wind, 2001

Prado, Edgar – Harlan’s Holiday, 2002; Peace Rules, 2003; Monba, 2008

Prat, Flavien – Zandon, 2022

Romero, Randy – Western Playboy, 1989; Wild Syn, 1995

Rosario, Joel – Brilliant Speed, 2011

Saez, Luis – Brody’s Cause, 2016; Essential Quality, 2021; Tapit Trice, 2023

Sellers, John – Diplomat Way, 1967

Sellers, Shane – Skip Away, 1996; Pulpit, 1997; The Cliff’s Edge, 2004

Shoemaker, William – Tomy Lee, 1959; Tompion, 1960; Lucky Debonair, 1965; Abe’s Hope, 1966; Arts and Letters, 1969; Linkage, 1982

Smith, F.A. – Bimelech, 1940

Smith, Mike – Prairie Bayou, 1993; Holy Bull, 1994

Stevens, Gary – Halory Hunter, 1998

Turcotte, Ron – Riva Ridge, 1972

Valenzuela, Ismael – Forward Pass, 1968

Vasquez, Jacinto – Granacus, 1988; Pistols and Roses, 1992

Velasquez, Jorge – Alydar, 1978

Velazquez, John – Bandini, 2005; Carpe Diem, 2015

Westrope, Jack – Fencing, 1937

Ycaza, Manuel – Ridan, 1962

Blue Grass Stakes History (Kentucky Derby 1-2-3-4

Year Winner/Finish/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Finish/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Finish/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Burnham Square Brian Hernandez Jr. (123) East Avenue River Thames

Whitham Thoroughbreds Ian R. Wilkes Luan Machado (123) Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) (Janis R. Whitham)

2024 Sierra Leone* Tyler Gaffalione (123) Just a Touch

Peter M.Brant, Mrs. John Chad C. Brown Florent Geroux (123) Adam Beschizza (123) Magnier, Michael B. Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg Limited (Michael Kuessner) and Brook T. Smith

2023 Tapit Trice* Luis Saez (123) Verifying Blazing Sevens

Whisper Hill Farm (Amanda Todd A. Pletcher Tyler Gaffalione (123) Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) Pope) and Gainesway Stable (Antony Beck)

2022 Zandon (3rd) Flavien Prat (123) Smile Happy Emmanuel

Jeff Drown Chad C. Brown Corey Lanerie (123) Luis Saez (123)

2021 Essential Quality* (3rd) Luis Saez (123) Highly Motivated Rombauer

Godolphin Brad H. Cox

Javier Castellano (123) Florent Geroux (123) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2020 Art Collector Brian Hernandez Jr. (123) f-Swiss Skydiver

W. Bruce Lunsford Thomas Drury Jr. Mike Smith (118) Javier Castellano (123)

2019 Vekoma* Javier Castellano (123) Win Win Win

Gatsas Stables (Michael Gatsas) George Weaver Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) Brian Hernandez Jr. (123) and R. A. Hill Stable (Raymond A. Hill III)

2018 Good Magic* (2nd) Jose Ortiz (123) Flameaway

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds Chad C. Brown Jose Lezcano (123) Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) (Robert J. Edwards Jr.) and SportingChancedisqualifiedfromthirdtofourth. Stonestreet Stables (Barbara Banke)

2017 Irap Julien Leparoux (123) Practical Joke

Reddam Racing Doug F. O’Neill Joel Rosario (123) Brian Hernandez Jr. (123) (John Paul Reddam)

2016 Brody’s Cause Luis Saez (123) My Man Sam Cherry Wine

Albaugh Family Stable Dale L. Romans Julien Leparoux (123) Corey Lanerie (123) (Dennis Albaugh)

2015 Carpe Diem* John Velazquez (123) Danzig Moon Ocho Ocho Ocho

3 WinStar Farm and Todd A. Pletcher Julien Leparoux (123) Santiago Gonzalez (123) Stonestreet Stables

2014 Dance With Fate Corey Nakatani (123)

Sharon Alesia, Bran Jam Stable Peter Eurton Robby Albarado (123) Victor Espinoza (123) Polytrack and Ciaglia Racing

2013 Java’s War

Charles E. Fipke

Julien Leparoux (123) Palace Malice Charming Kitten

Kenneth G. McPeek

2012 Dullahan (3rd) Kent Desormeaux (123)

Donegal Racing (Jerry Crawford) Dale L. Romans

Garrett Gomez (123) Joe Bravo (123) Polytrack

Ramon Dominguez (123) Edgar Prado (123) Polytrack

2011 Brilliant Speed Joel Rosario (123) Twinspired

Live Oak Plantation

Thomas Albertrani Robby Albarado (123) Rajiv Maragh (123) Polytrack (Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber)

2010 Stately Victor Alan Garcia (123) Paddy O’Prado First Dude

Thomas F. Conway and Michael J. Maker

Kent Desormeaux (123) Ramon A. Dominguez (123) Polytrack Jack Conway

2009 General Quarters Eibar Coa (123) Hold Me Back Massone

Thomas R. McCarthy

Thomas R. McCarthy Kent Desormeaux (123) Garrett

2008 Monba Edgar Prado (123)

Starlight Stable (Jack Wolf), Todd A. Pletcher

John Velazquez (123) Jamie Theriot (123) Polytrack Donald J. Lucarelli and Paul H. Saylor

2007 Dominican Rafael Bejarano (123)

Silverton Hill Darrin Miller Calvin Borel (123) Garrett

(123) Polytrack (Tommy and Bonnie Hamilton)

2006 Sinister Minister Garrett Gomez (123)

Lanni Family Trust (J. Terrence Bob A. Baffert

Mark Guidry (123) Edgar Prado (123) Lanni), Mercedes Stable (Ernie Moody) and Bernard C. Schiappa

2005 Bandini John Velazquez (123)

Michael B. Tabor and Derrick Smith

2004 The Cliff’s Edge

Robert V. LaPenta

2003 Peace

(3rd)

Edmund A. Gann

2002 Harlan’s Holiday*

Starlight Stable (Jack Wolf)

2001 Millennium

David and Jill Heerensperger

2000 High Yield*

Todd A. Pletcher Ramon Dominguez (123) Cornelio Velasquez (123)

Shane Sellers (123) Lion

Nicholas P. Zito

Edgar Prado (123)

Robert J. Frankel

Prado (123)

Kenneth G. McPeek

Laffit Pincay Jr. (123)

David E. Hofmans

Pat Day (123)

Michael Tabor, Robert and D. Wayne Lukas

Beverly Lewis, Mrs. John Magnier

Mike Smith (123) Jose Santos (123)

Tony Farina (123) Pat Day (123)

Jorge Chavez (123) Eddie Delahoussaye (123)

Edgar Prado (123) Pat

More Than Ready (4th)

(123)

John Velazquez (123) Richard Migliore (123)

Blue Grass Stakes History (Kentucky Derby 1-2-3-4

Year Winner/Finish/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Finish/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Finish/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1999 Menifee (2nd) Pat Day (123)

Arthur B. Hancock III W. Elliott Walden

Cat Thief (3rd) Vicar

Mike Smith (123)

Shane Sellers (123) and James H. Stone

1998 Halory Hunter (4th) Gary Stevens (123) Lil’s Lad Cape Town

Celtic Pride Stable (Rick Pitino) Nicholas P. Zito

1997 Pulpit* (4th)

Jerry Bailey (123)

Shane Sellers (123)

Shane Sellers (121) Acceptable Stolen Gold

Claiborne Farm Frank Brothers

Craig Perret (121)

Gary Stevens (121) (Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.)

1996 Skip Away

Shane Sellers (121) Louis Quatorze Editor’s Note

Carolyn H. Hine Hubert Hine

Chris McCarron (121)

Gary Stevens (121)

1995 Wild Syn Randy Romero (121) Suave Prospect Tejano Run (2nd)

Jurgen K. Arnemann

Warren A. Croll Jr.

Thomas K. Arnemann

(121)

Warren A. Croll Jr.

Julie Krone (121)

Laffit Pincay Jr. (121)

1993 Prairie Bayou (2nd) Mike Smith (121) Wallenda

Loblolly Stable (John Ed Anthony) Thomas Bohannan

1992 Pistols and Roses

Herbert McCauley (121)

Jacinto Vasquez (121) Conte Di Savoya (4th)

Willis Family Stables Inc. George Gianos

Shane Sellers (121)

1991 Strike the Gold (1st) Chris Antley (121) Fly So Free

B. Giles Brophy, William J. Nicholas P. Zito Jose Santos (121)

Mickey Walls (121)

Willie Martinez (121)

Randy Romero (121)

Ronald Ardoin (121)

Shane Sellers (121) Condren and Joseph M. Cornacchia

1990 Summer Squall* (2nd) Pat Day (121) Land Rush

Dogwood Stable Neil J. Howard Angel Cordero Jr. (121)

Unbridled (1st)

Craig Perret (121) (W. Cothran Campbell)

1989 Western Playboy* Randy Romero (121) Dispersal Tricky Creek

Nancy Vanier and Harvey Vanier Jose Santos (121)

Larry Melancon (121) Raymond Roncari

1988 Granacus Jacinto Vasquez (121) Intensive Command Regal Classic

Steve A. Stavro Patrick Collins Julio Pezua (121) Pat Day (121)

1987 War Herb McCauley (121) Leo Castelli

Alysheba (1st)

Tom Gentry D. Wayne Lukas Jose Santos (121) Chris McCarron (121) Alyshebadisqualifiedfromfirstandplacedthird.

1986 Bachelor Beau Larry Melancon (121) Bolshoi Boy

Richard A. Waterfield and Philip M. Hauswald

Jack A. Tafel

Bold Arrangement (GB) (2nd) 1:51

Richard Migliore (121) Pat Eddery (121)

1985 Chief’s Crown* (3rd) Don MacBeth (121) Floating Reserve Banner Bob

Star Crown Stable and Roger Laurin

Three Chimneys Farm

Sandy Hawley (121) Keith Allen (121)

1984 Taylor’s Special* Pat Day (121) Silent King Charmed Rook

William F. Lucas

William I. Mott

William Shoemaker (121) Don Brumfield (121)

1983 Play Fellow Jean Cruguet (121) Desert Wine (2nd) Copelan

Nancy Vanier, Carl Lauer, Harvey Vanier Chris McCarron (121) Jerry Bailey (121) and Robert Victor

1982 Linkage* William Shoemaker (121) Gato Del Sol (1st)

1981

Christiana Stable Henry Clark Eddie Delahoussaye (121) Randy Romero (121)

Gainesway Farm, Robert Stanley M. Hough Pat Day (121)

Julio C. Espinoza (121) Entenmann, Stanley M. Hough and Malcolm H. Winfield et al

1980 Rockhill Native* John Oldham (121) Super Moment (4th) Gold

Harry A. Oak Herbert K. Stevens Don Pierce (121) Angel Cordero Jr. (121)

1979 Spectacular Bid* (1st) Ronald Franklin (121) Lot o’ Gold

Hawksworth Farm Grover G. Delp Darrel McHargue (121) Don Brumfield (121)

1978 Alydar* (2nd) Jorge Velasquez (121) Raymond Earl

Calumet Farm John Veitch R.L. Baird (121) Jose Amy (121)

1977 For the Moment Angel Cordero Jr. (121) Run Dusty Run (2nd)

Gerald Robins LeRoy Jolley Darrel McHargue (121) Ron Turcotte (121)

1976 Honest Pleasure* (2nd) Braulio Baeza (121) Certain Roman

Bertram R. Firestone LeRoy Jolley Larry Melancon (121) William Nemeti (121)

1975 Master Derby* (4th) Darrel McHargue (123) Honey Mark Prince Thou Art

Golden Chance Farm Inc. William E. Adams Eddie Delahoussaye (117) Braulio Baeza (123)

1974 Judger* Laffit Pincay Jr. (123) Big Latch

Seth W. Hancock W.C. Stephens R.J. Campbell (117) Don Brumfield (114)

1973 My Gallant Angel Cordero Jr. (117) Our Native (3rd) dh-Warbucks/Impecunious

Arthur I. Appleton Lou M. Goldfine Don Brumfield (123) William Hartack(117)/ Jorge Velasquez (126)

1972 Riva Ridge* (1st) Ron Turcotte (126) Sensitive Music Thurloe Square

Meadow Stable Lucien Laurin Carlos H. Marquez (121) Don Brumfield (121)

1971 Impetuosity Eric Guerin (121) Twist the Axe Dynastic

3 W.P. Rosso George T. Poole Garth Patterson (126) William Shoemaker (121)

1970 Dust Commander (1st) Mike Manganello (123) Corn off the Cob Naskra (4th)

Robert E. Lehmann Don Combs

Angel Cordero Jr. (126) Braulio Baeza (126) (Golden Chance Farm)

1969 Arts and Letters* (2nd) William Shoemaker (126) Traffic Mark (4th) Mr. Coincidence 1:47 4/5 ft 15

Rokeby Stable Elliott Burch Phil I. Grimm (126) Billy Phelps (123)

Blue Grass Stakes History (Kentucky Derby 1-2-3-4

Year Winner/Finish/Owner

1968 Forward Pass* (1st)

Calumet Farm

1967 Diplomat Way

Harvey Peltier

1966 Abe’s Hope

Grand Prix Stable

1965 Lucky Debonair* (1st)

Ada L. Rice

1964 Northern Dancer* (1st)

Windfields Farm

1963 Chateaugay* (1st)

Darby Dan Farm

1962 Ridan* (3rd)

Jockey/Wgt./Trainer

Ismael Valenzuela (126)

Henry Forrest

John Sellers (126)

J.O. Meaux

William Shoemaker (123)

Del W. Carroll

William Shoemaker (126)

Frank Catrone

2nd/Finish/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Finish/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

T.V. Commercial (3rd) Francie’s Hat (2nd)

Howard Grant (126)

Earlie Fires (121)

Proud Clarion (1st) Gentleman James

Braulio Baeza (121) R.J. Campbell (126)

Graustark Rehabilitate

Braulio Baeza (126)

Swift Ruler

Larry Spraker (126)

Earlie Fires (123)

Jimmy Nichols (121)

William Hartack (126) Allen Adair Royal Shuck

Horatio A. Luro

Jimmy Nichols (121) Harrel Bolin (121)

Braulio Baeza (121) Get Around Lemon Twist

James P. Conway

Manuel Ycaza (126)

Mrs. Moody Jolley, Ernest LeRoy Jolley

Woods and John L. Greer

1961 Sherluck

Jacob Sher

1960 Tompion* (4th)

C.V. Whitney

1959 Tomy Lee* (1st)

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Turner Jr.

1958 Plion

Edward Potter Jr.

1957 Round Table* (3rd)

Kerr Stable

1956 Toby B.

Van Deren and Deming

1955 Racing Fool (4th)

Cain Hoy Stable

1954 Goyamo* (4th)

Ismael Valenzuela (121) Billy Phelps (121)

Decidedly (1st) Roman Line (2nd)

William Hartack (121) Jim Combest (126)

Braulio Baeza (121) Flutterby Mr. Consistency

Harold Young

William Shoemaker (126)

Robert L. Wheeler

John Longden (126) Ray Mundorf (126)

Victoria Park (3rd)

William Hartack (126)

William Shoemaker (126) Dunce

Frank Childs

Dave Erb (126)

Tom Jolley

Steve Brooks (121)

Warren G.

Steve Brooks (121)

William Hartack (123)

Ken Church (121) Gordon Glisson (117)

Ralph Neves (126) One-Eyed King

Willie Molter

William Hartack (121) John Heckmann (121) (NTR)

R.L. Baird (121) Career

R.E. Wingfield

Eric Guerin (126) Larry Gilligan (126)

Henry Moreno (121) Jean’s Joe Munchausen

Loyd Gentry

Dave Erb (123) Ovie Scurlock (123)

Eddie Arcaro (123) Hasseyampa (3rd) Admiral Porter 1:50 3/5 ft 1 Woodvale Farm W.C. Stephens Arnold Kirkland (121) P.J. Bailey (121)

1953 Correspondent Eddie Arcaro (121) Straight Face Money Broker 1:49 ft 5 Mrs. Gordon Guiberson T.W. Dunn

1952 Gushing Oil*

Ted Atkinson (126) Al Popara (126) (NTR)

Steve Brooks (123) Cold Command Smoke Screen 1:52 2/5 sy 1

Sam E. Wilson Jr. Joe Jansen Gerald Porch (121) Johnny Adams (121)

1951 Mameluke Ray Adair (121) Phil D. (4th)

(1st)

C.V. Whitney Syl E. Veitch Ray York (126) David Gorman (121)

1951 Ruhe (3rd) J.D. Jessop (123) Royal Mustang (2nd) Counterpoint 1:54 1/5

hd (2nd) Mrs. Emil Denemark Robert McGarvey P.J. Bailey (121) Doug Dodson (121) Sonicdisqualifiedfromfirstandplacedfourth.

1950 Mr. Trouble (3rd) Doug Dodson (121) Oil Capitol On The Mark

3/4 C.V. Whitney

1949 Halt

Syl E. Veitch

Ken Church (126) Eric Guerin (118)

Conn McCreary (121) Johns Joy Wine List 1:52 3/5

hd Woodvale Farm W.C. Stephens

John Longden (126) Ted Atkinson (121)

1948 Coaltown* (2nd) N.L. Pierson (123) Billings (4th) Shy Guy

Calumet Farm

1947 Faultless* (3rd)

Calumet Farm

Ben A. Jones

Melvin Peterson (121) Steve Brooks (126) (NTR)

Doug Dodson (126) Riskolater John’s Pride

Ben A. Jones

Willie Balzaretti (123) W.L. Johnson (121)

1946 Lord Boswell* (4th) Eddie Arcaro (123) Pellicle In Earnest

Maine Chance Farm

1945** Darby Dieppe (3rd)

Mrs. W.G. Lewis

James Smith

George Hettinger (123) Doug Dodson (121)

Melvin Calvert (121) Fighting Step

Charles Gentry

George South (123) Leon Haas (123)

1944** Skytracer Michael Caffarella (121) Challenge

M.B. Goff

1943** Ocean Wave

Calumet Farm

1942 Shut Out (1st)

Greentree Stable

1941 Our Boots

Woodvale Farm

E.W. Steiger

Anthony Skoronski (123) Johnny Adams (123)

Wendell Eads (123) Amber Light (4th) Crest

Ben A. Jones

John Longden (123) Carrol Bierman (121)

Eddie Arcaro (123) Bless Me Equinox

John Gaver

Sterling Young (121) Carrol Bierman (121)

Conn McCreary (123) Whirlaway (1st) Valdina Paul

Steve Judge

Wendell Eads (123) Albert Snider (121)

1940 Bimelech* (2nd) F.A. Smith (123) Roman Bashful Duck

E.R. Bradley

William Hurley

Ken McCombs (123) Carrol Bierman (121)

1939 Heather Broom (3rd) Basil James (121) Third Degree Viscounty (4th) 1:54

John Hay Whitney

1938 Bull Lea*

Earl Sande

Eddie Arcaro (121) Charles Kurtsinger (121)

Irving Anderson (121) Menow (4th) Redbreast

Calumet Farm F.J. Kearns

Alfred Robertson (123) Porter Roberts (123) (NTR)

1937 Fencing Jack Westrope (121) Billionaire Brooklyn 1:57 1/5

3/4 Maxwell Howard Earl Sande Basil James (123) George Woolf (123)

*Winningfavorite. **RunatChurchillDowns.f-filly. Grade1,1973-1989,1999-2016and2022-present.Grade2,1990-1998and2017-2021. RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014. BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnotholda2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisracewasrunduringthe SummerMeet.

Sire

Alsab Toby B. 1956

Alydar Strike the Gold 1991

A.P. Indy Pulpit 1997

Bernardini Art Collector 2020

Better Bee Abe’s Hope 1966

Black Toney Bimelech 1940

Blenheim II Ocean Wave 1943

Bold Bidder Spectacular Bid 1979

Bold Commander Dust Commander 1970

Boswell Lord Boswell 1946

Bull Dog Bull Lea 1938

Bull Dog Our Boots 1941

Bull Lea Faultless 1947

Bull Lea Coaltown 1948

Candy Ride (ARG) Vekoma 2019

Chance Shot Fencing 1937

Correspondent Sherluck 1961

Cryptoclearance Millennium Wind 2001

Curlin Good Magic 2018

Damascus Judger 1974

Danzig Chief’s Crown 1985

Darn That Alarm Pistols and Roses 1992

Dust Commander Master Derby 1975

Dynaformer Brilliant Speed 2011

Easy Mon Gushing Oil 1952

El Corredor Dominican 2007

Equipoise Shut Out 1942

Even the Score Dullahan 2012

First Landing Riva Ridge 1972 Flares Skytracer 1944

Blue Grass Stakes Favorites

Sires of Blue Grass Stakes Winners

Foray II Darby Dieppe 1945

Fusaichi Pegasus Bandini 2005

Gallant Man My Gallant 1973

Ghostzapper Stately Victor 2010

Giant’s Causeway Carpe Diem 2015

Giant’s Causeway Brody’s Cause 2016

Goya II Goyamo 1954

Great Above Holy Bull 1994

Greek Ship Plion 1958

Gulch The Cliff’s Edge 2004

Gun Runner Sierra Leone 2024

Haltal Halt 1949

Harlan Menifee 1999

Harlan Harlan’s Holiday 2002

Hawkin’s Special Taylor’s Special 1984

Hoist the Flag Linkage 1982

Jade Hunter Halory Hunter 1998

Jet Pilot Racing Fool 1955

Jules Peace Rules 2003

Khaled Correspondent 1953

Liam’s Map Burnham Square 2025

Little Missouri Prairie Bayou 1993

Mahmoud Mr. Trouble 1950

Mahmoud Mameluke (1st div.) 1951

Majestic Light War 1987

Maria’s Mon Monba 2008

Menow Ruhe (2nd div.) 1951

Nantallah Ridan 1962

Nashua Diplomat Way 1967

Nearctic Northern Dancer 1964

Old Trieste Sinister Minister 2006 On the Sly Play Fellow 1983

On-and-On Forward Pass 1968

Our Native Rockhill Native 1980

Play Fellow Western Playboy 1989

Princequillo Round Table 1957

Raise a Native Alydar 1978

Raised Socially Bachelor Beau 1986

Ribot Arts and Letters 1969

Skip Trial Skip Away 1996

Sky Mesa General Quarters 2009

Storm Bird Summer Squall 1990

Storm Cat High Yield 2000

Swaps Chateaugay 1963

Sweet Candy Granacus 1988

Tapit Essential Quality 2021

Tapit Tapit Trice 2023

The Porter Heather Broom 1939

Tiznow Irap 2017

Tom Fool Tompion 1960

Tudor Minstrel Tomy Lee 1959

Two Step Salsa Dance With Fate 2014

Upstart Zandon 2022

Valid Appeal Proud Appeal 1981

Vertex Lucky Debonair 1965

Vertex Impetuosity 1971

War Pass Java’s War 2013

What a Pleasure Honest Pleasure 1976

What a Pleasure For the Moment 1977

Wild Again Wild Syn 1995

Size of Blue Grass Fields

Number of Starters Year

3 1940, 1942, 1966

4 1938, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1960, 1979, 1985

5 1939, 1964, 1987, 1990, 1998

6 1937, 1943, 1948, 1951 (2nd div.), 1953, 1957, 1965, 1969, 1989, 1991, 1995, 2002

7 1951 (1st div.), 1956, 1976, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2017, 2025

8 1944, 1946, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2015

9 1955, 1959, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1993, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2021

10 1945, 1950, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1970, 2024

11 1972, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1992, 2009, 2022, 2023

12 1983, 2008, 2011

13 1971, 2012, 2020

14 1954, 1974, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019

Blue Grass Stakes Statistics

Fastest Blue Grass Stakes

Time Horse Year

1:47 1/5 Skip Away 1996 1:47 2/5 Round Table 1957 1:47 3/5 Ridan 1962 1:47 3/5 Chief’s Crown 1985 1:47 4/5 Forward Pass 1968 1:47 4/5 Arts and Letters 1969

1:47 4/5 Halory Hunter 1998

1:47 4/5 Dullahan 2012 1:48 Chateaugay 1963 1:48 Linkage 1982

1:48.11 Art Collector 2020 1:48.32 Millennium Wind 2001 1:48 2/5 Alysheba 1987 (disqualifiedandplacedthird)

1:48 2/5 Strike the Gold 1991

1:48.50 Essential Quality 2021

1:48 3/5 Tomy Lee 1959

1:48 3/5 Tompion 1960 1:48 3/5 Sherluck 1961

1:48 3/5 Summer Squall 1990 1:48 3/5 Menifee 1999 1:48 3/5 High Yield 2000 1:48 3/5 Stately Victor 2010

Fastest Blue Grass Stakes on Off Track

Time Horse Year Track Condition

1:48 2/5 Strike the Gold 1991 Good 1:48 3/5 Summer Squall 1990 Muddy

1:49 Master Derby 1975 Sloppy

1:49 1/5 Abe’s Hope 1966 Sloppy 1:49 2/5 Play Fellow 1983 Sloppy 1:49 3/5 Alydar 1978 Good

1:50 1/5 For the Moment 1977 Sloppy 1:50.35 Zandon 2022 Good 1:51 Toby B. 1956 Slow 1:51 1/5 Our Boots 1941 Muddy 1:51 1/5 Faultless 1947

Blue Grass Stakes and the Triple Crown

The following tabulation shows winners of Triple Crown races and where they finished in the Blue Grass Stakes.

*Finishedfirst;disqualifiedandplacedthird. **FinishedsecondtoDancer’sImagebutawardedfirstmoney. ***Finishedfourth,placedthirdthroughdisqualification. Becauseanumberof2020racemeetsandraceswererescheduledduetotheCOVID-19pandemic,theTripleCrownseriesbeganwiththeBelmont(G1)onJune20 andwasfollowedbytheKentuckyDerby(G1)onSept.5andPreakness(G1)onOct.3.

Where Blue Grass Stakes Starters Finished in the Kentucky Derby

Where Blue Grass Stakes Starters Finished in the Kentucky Derby

Where Blue Grass Stakes Starters Finished in the Kentucky Derby

Toyota Blue Grass Leading Horsemen and Other Notes

Owners with Most Blue Grass Wins

Calumet Farm (does not include when owned by Henryk de Kwiatkowski or Brad Kelley)

C.V. Whitney, Woodvale Farm

Todd Pletcher

Chad Brown, LeRoy Jolley, Ben A. Jones, Woody Stephens, Nick Zito

2 D. Wayne Lukas, Kenny McPeek, Dale Romans, Earl Sande, Harvey Vanier, Syl Veitch

Trainers to Win Blue Grass in Consecutive Years (3)

Ben Jones 1947-1948

Syl Veitch 1950-1951

LeRoy Jolley 1976-1977

Trainers Who Won Blue Grass and Ashland in Same Year (6)

1948 Ben Jones (Coaltown and Bewitch)

1949 Woody Stephens (Halt and Tall Weeds)

1971 George Poole (Impetuosity and You All)

1976 LeRoy Jolley (Honest Pleasure and Optimistic Gal)

1987 D. Wayne Lukas (War and Chic Shirine)

2002 Kenny McPeek (Harlan’s Holiday and Take Charge Lady)

Keeneland Sales Graduates Who Won the Toyota Blue Grass Since 1986

2023 Tapit Trice 2021 September Yearling

2022 Zandon 2020 September

2019 Vekoma 2017 September $135,000

2018 Good

Jockeys with Most Blue Grass Wins

Angel Cordero Jr., Doug Dodson, Brian Hernandez Jr., Julien Leparoux, Conn McCreary, Laffit Pincay Jr., Randy Romero, Mike Smith, Jacinto Vasquez, John Velazquez

Jockeys Who Won Blue Grass in Consecutive Years

Bill Shoemaker 1959-1960 and 1965-1966

Eddie Arcaro 1953-1954

Mike Smith 1993-1994

Shane Sellers 1996-1997

Pat Day 1999-2000

Edgar Prado 2002-2003

Jockeys Who Won Blue Grass and Ashland in Same Year (6)

1942 Eddie Arcaro (Shut Out and The Swallow)

1948 N.L. Pierson (Coaltown and Bewitch)

1949 Conn McCreary (Halt and Tall Weeds)

1976 Braulio Baeza (Honest Pleasure and Optimistic Gal)

1982 Bill Shoemaker (Linkage and Blush With Pride)

1994

Mike Smith (Holy Bull and Inside Information)

Geldings Who Won the Blue Grass (7)

1937 Fencing 1951 Ruhe (2nd div.) 1980 Rockhill Native

Bachelor Beau 1993 Prairie Bayou 2007 Dominican

Burnham Square

Fillies in the Blue Grass

Castle&Key Bourbon Stakes (G2)

SponsoredbyCastle&KeyDistillery

36th Running • Fall • 1 1/16 miles (turf) • 2-year-olds

The race is named for Bourbon County, home to some of North America’s most productive Thoroughbred farms. The county is located north of Lexington and Paris is the county seat.

Castle & Key Distillery, one of Central Kentucky’s most popular distillery destinations, began to sponsor the Bourbon in 2021.

Milestones – Bourbon Stakes

2025 Purse: $400,000

Stakes Record: 1:41.27, Andthewinneris, 2022

Largest Straight Payoff: $56.34, Can Group, 2023

Smallest Straight Payoff: $3.00, Stress Buster, 1991

Largest Field: 14, 2015; 2016; 2017; 2019; 2021

Smallest Field: 5, 1991; 2006

Largest Value to Winner: $226,300, Final Score, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Bourbon Stakes History

2024 Minaret Station

OXO Equine (Lawrence Best) William Walden

2023 Can Group Francisco Arrieta (118)

D. J. Stable (Leonard Green) Mark E. Casse Irad Ortiz Jr. (120)

(118) and Cash Is King (Charles J. Zacney et al)

Susan Moulton Wayne M. Catalano Martin Garcia (118)

2021 Tiz

Phoenix Thoroughbred III

Kenneth G. McPeek

Flavien Prat (118) Edwin

(118) (Aamer Abdulaziz Ahmed)

2020 Mutasaabeq*

Shadwell Stable

Luis Saez (118) Abarta

Todd A. Pletcher Umberto Rispoli (118)

Julien Leparoux (118) (Hamdan Al Maktoum)

2019 Peace Achieved

JSM Equine (Joe Minor)

Miguel Mena (120) Vitalogy (GB)

Mark E. Casse

Javier Castellano (118)

2018 Current Jose Ortiz (118) Henley’s Joy

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners

Todd A. Pletcher

Tyler Gaffalione (120)

Tyler Gaffalione (118)

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) (Aron Wellman) and Robert V. LaPenta

2017 Flameaway

John C. Oxley

2016 Keep Quiet (FR)

Gary Barber

John C. Oxley

2014 Lawn Ranger

Turf Stable

2013 Poker Player

Gary and Mary West

2012 Balance the Books*

Julien Leparoux (118) Tap Daddy

Mark E. Casse

Florent Geroux (118)

Miguel Mena (118) Off Turf

Tigers Rule disqualified from second and placed third.

Florent Geroux (118) Ticonderoga

Mark E. Casse

Mark E. Casse

(118)

Irad Ortiz Jr. (118)

Chris Landeros (118) Danny Boy

Kenneth J. McPeek

Julien Leparoux (118)

Channing Hill (118) Bashart

Wayne Catalano

John Velazquez (122)

Drayden Van Dyke (118) Haggin Course

Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Haggin Course

Eddie Castro (118) Polytrack

Julien Leparoux (122) Brown Almighty Sonofasamurai

Klaravich Stables Inc. and Chad C. Brown

William H. Lawrence

Francisco Torres (118)

David Cohen (118) Haggin Course

Really Sharp disqualified from second and placed sixth.

Bourbon Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2011 Animal Spirits

Klaravich Stables Inc.

Robby Albarado (118) Coalport

Albert M. Stall Jr.

Junior Alvarado (118)

Lucky Chappy (IRE) 1:44.24 fm 1/2

Ramon A. Dominguez (118) Haggin Course (Seth Klarman) and William H. Lawrence

2010 Rogue Romance*

Catesby W. Clay

2009 Interactif*

Wertheimer and Frere

Julien R. Leparoux (118)

Kenneth J. McPeek

Cozy Kitten Ocasta

Ramon A. Dominguez (118) Freddie Lenclud (118) Haggin Course

Kent Desormeaux (123) Codoy Family Foundation

Todd A. Pletcher

Leandro Goncalves (117) Junior Alvarado (117) Haggin Course (Alain and Gerard Wertheimer)

2008 Bittel Road*

James T. Scatuorchio

Rajiv Maragh (121) Driving Snow (GB) Ninth Client

Todd A. Pletcher

Robby Albarado (117) Julien Leparoux (117) Haggin Course and John Iracane

2007 Gio Ponti

Castleton Lyons Farm

Ramon Dominguez (117)

Christophe Clement Julien Leparoux (121) Robby Albarado (117) Haggin Course (Todd Renner and Shane Ryan)

2006 Twilight Meteor

Peachtree Stable (John Fort)

2005 Yankee Master*

Team Power Play Racing

(Lewis A. Mongelluzzo)

John Velazquez (116) Marcavelly

Todd A. Pletcher Edgar Prado (120) Julien Leparoux (116) Polytrack

Rafael Bejarano (116)

Linda Rice

RunastheBourbonCountyStakes2003-2004.

Mike Smith (116) Corey Lanerie (116) Haggin

2004 Rey de Cafe Craig Perret (116) Dubleo Ready Ruler

G. Watts Humphrey Jr. George R. Arnold II Christopher De Carlo (122) Mark Guidry (122) Keeneland Course

2003 Commendation Cornelio Velasquez (120)

Courtlandt Farm (Donald A. Adam) H. Graham Motion Corey Lanerie (116) Rene Douglas (120) Haggin

RunastheHopemontStakes1991-2002.

2002 Rapid Proof Calvin Borel (116) Zydeco Affair Collateral Damage

Dolphus C. Morrison Hal R. Wiggins Robby Albarado (122) Jose Martinez Jr. (116) Haggin Course

2001 Stage Call (IRE)*

Mark Guidry (116) Daisyago

WinStar Farm, Richard Nip W. Elliott Walden Lonnie Meche (115) Jon Court (116) Haggin

and Gloria Gaines Callen

2000 Overview

John C. Oxley

Mike Smith (115) McHenry Co. Kid Summarily 1:43 fm nk

John T. Ward Jr. Donnie Meche (115) Corey Lanerie (115) Keeneland Course

1999 Gateman (GB) Pat Day (115) dh-Field Cat/Pay Ransom 1:42

fm 1 Kennet Valley Thoroughbreds IV W. Elliott Walden

Mike Smith (119)/ Haggin Course (Nick Robinson) Patricia Cooksey (115)

1998 Pineaff*

(1st)

Joyce and Roy K. Monroe

1998 Bold Caleb

Pat Day (113) Draupner Air Rocket 1:44 3/5

Kenneth G. McPeek

Dean Sarvis (113) Willie Martinez (113) Haggin Course

Robby Albarado (116) Phi Beta Doc Dawn Flies By 1:44 3/5 fm hd (2nd) Ann and Charles Patterson

1997 Reformer Rally*

Thomas M. Carey

1996 Thesaurus*

Hal R. Wiggins

Calvin Borel (113) Randy Romero (118) Haggin Course

Craig Perret (116) Heartland Hope Magest

Peter M. Vestal

Willie Martinez (113) Pat Day (113) Keeneland Course

Craig Perret (112) Letterhead Royal Strand 1:44 2/5 fm nk Charles J. Cella

Peter M. Vestal

1995 Red Shadow

Prestonwood Farm

1994 Claudius*

Darley Stud Management

Herbert McCauley (112) Pat Day (112) Haggin Course

Willie Martinez (112) Never to Squander Officious

Patrick B. Byrne

Randy Romero (114) Craig Perret (115) Keeneland Course

John Velazquez (115) Hawk Attack Dixie Dynasty 1:45 2/5 fm 1 1/4

William I. Mott

Aaron Gryder (115) Robert Lester (115) Keeneland Course (Mohammed Al Maktoum)

1993 Star of Manila*

Shane Sellers (121) Milt’s Overture Camptown Dancer 1:43 1/5 fm 1 New Phoenix Stable (Gary Drake) Burk Kessinger Jr. Donnie Miller Jr. (115) Fabio Arguello Jr. (115) Keeneland Course

1992 The Real Vaslav

Shane Sellers (115) Randi’s Pleasure Eight for Slew 1:46 gd 5 Gonzalo B. Torrealba D. Wayne Lukas

1991 Stress Buster*

Jorge Velasquez (115) Brian Miller (112) Haggin Course

Pat Day (112) Rail In My Footsteps

2 3/4 G. Watts Humphrey Jr. and Joseph H. Pierce Jr.

Shane Sellers (115) Dean Kutz (115)

Sheila Pierce

*Winningfavorite.Grade3,2008-2019.Grade2,2020-present. In2017,rainforcedtheraceofftheturfcoursetoberunondirt. In2013,rainforcedtheraceofftheturfcoursetoberunonPolytrack.

Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1)

SponsoredbyClaiborneFarm

113th Running • Fall • 1 1/16 miles • 2-year-olds

The Breeders’ Futurity was inaugurated at the Kentucky Association track in Lexington in 1910 and was renewed every year thereafter through 1930. In 1931-1933, the race was shifted to Latonia (now Turfway Park) in Northern Kentucky. The Futurity was revived at Keeneland in the fall of 1938. From 1943-1945, the Futurity was renewed as a part of the Churchill Downs fall meetings. Claiborne Farm of Paris, Kentucky, became the sponsor in 2014.

Milestones – Breeders’ Futurity

2025 Purse: $650,000

Stakes Record: 1:42 1/5, Polar Expedition, 1993

Largest Straight Payoff: $142, Knicks Go, 2018

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.20, Occupation, 1942

Largest Field: 15, 1954

Smallest Field: 3, 1943; 1946

Largest Value to Winner: $397,963, Ted Noffey, 2025

Albaugh Family Stable – Brody’s Cause, 2015; Free Drop Billy, 2017

Amerman Racing (John and Jerome Amerman) – Siphonic, 2001

Ashbrook Farm (Glen S. Bromagen) –Wicked Style, 2007

Bayview Stable – Orono, 1986

Belair Stud – Johnstown, 1938

Blass, Patricia – Annililate ‘em, 1972

Bluegrass Equine Bloodstock –Joha, 2012

Brown, J. Graham – He’s a Pistol, 1960

Buckram Oak Farm (Monsour Fustok) –Eurosilver, 2003

Buhl, T.D. – Air Sailor, 1944

Bwamazon Farm – Jovial Jove, 1955; T.V. Commercial, 1967; Highland Park, 1982

Calumet Farm – Whirlaway, 1940

Chasing Dreams Racing 2008 (Robert Brewster) – Noble’s Promise, 2009

Circle M Farm – Man of the Moment, 1970

Claiborne Farm – Round Table, 1956; Duel, 1963; Dike, 1968; Swale, 1983; Forty Niner, 1987

Cody, James B. – Polar Expedition (S), 1993

Columbine Stable (Andrea S. Pollack)

– J.B.’s Thunder, 2010

Combs, Brownell – f-Durazna, 1943

Cragwood Stable – Windjammer, 1971

Darby Dan Farm – Ornamento, 1962

Dixiana – Shy Guy, 1947; Hard Work, 1969

Donegal Racing (Jerry Crawford) –Dullahan, 2011

Eagle Mountain Farm – Packer Captain, 1974

Keeneland sales graduate Ted Noffey won the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) and next took the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. The undefeated colt was named champion 2-yearold male.

Owners – Breeders’ Futurity

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners (Aron Wellman) and Walmac Farm (Gary Broad) – Locked, 2023

Farish III, William S. – Strike Your Colors, 1978

Firestone, Bertram R. – D’Accord, 1981

Fisher, Mary V. – Fulcrum, 1957

Floyd, William – Fairway Phantom, 1980

Ford Stables – Umbrella Fella, 1964

Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al) –Maxfield, 2019; Essential Quality, 2020; East Avenue, 2024

Golden Chance Farm Inc. – Run Dusty Run, 1976

Gray, Tom – Oil Capitol, 1949

Greentree Stable – Devil Diver, 1941; Big Stretch, 1950; Straight Face, 1952

Grissom, T.A. – Namon, 1958; Roman Line, 1961

Haggin II, Louis Lee – Harbor Springs, 1975

Hanger, W. Arnold – Roman Flag, 1939

Harborvale Stable – Alladier, 1951

Hardamon, Donald G. and Ray Trisler –Sir Bordeaux, 1990

Hasty House Farm – Hasty Road, 1953

Headley, Hal Price – Pellicle, 1945

Hinkle IV, S.D. and D.D. Crater – Crater Fire, 1984

Hofmann, Mrs. Philip – Gold Stage, 1979

Hooper, Fred W. – Olympia, 1948; Tinsley, 1965

Hooper, Mrs. Fred W. – Education, 1946

Joseph LaCombe Stable (Joseph LaCombe) –Favorite Trick, 1997

KRA Stud Farm (Jin Woo Lee) – Knicks Go, 2018

Lewis, Robert B. and Beverly J. –Consolidator, 2004

Lucky Seven Stable (Michael J. Mackin) –Rattle N Roll, 2021

Marsch, John – Occupation, 1942

Monroe, Roy K. – Tejano Run, 1994

Oaktown Stable (Lewis Burrell Sr. et al) –Dance Floor (S), 1991

Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young) –Mountain Cat (S), 1992; Boston Harbor, 1996; Cat Thief, 1998

Oxley, John C. – Sky Mesa, 2002; Classic Empire, 2016

Pegram, Michael E. – Captain Steve, 1999

Perry, William Haggin – Slavic (S), 1989

Phipps, Michael G. – Gentleman James, 1966

Phipps, Ogden – Fast Play (S), 1988

Ramsey, Kenneth L. and Sarah K. – Dawn of War, 2005; We Miss Artie, 2013

Reddam, J. Paul – Great Hunter, 2006; Square Eddie, 2008

Repole Stable (Mike Repole) and St. Elias Stable (Vincent Viola) – Forte, 2022

Robins, Gerald and Timothy Sams – Tasso, 1985

Sanders, G.E. – Provante, 1973

Scully, James – Gonquin, 1977

Spendthrift Farm (Eric P. Gustavson) –Ted Noffey, 2025

Stephens, Woodford C. – Brother Tex, 1954

Tabor, Michael – Honour and Glory, 1995

The Thoroughbred Corp. (Ahmed bin Salman) – Arabian Light, 2000

Van Deren, Gene and O.S. Deming –Toby’s Brother, 1959

WinStar Farm and Stonestreet Stables – Carpe Diem, 2014

Adams, William E. – Run Dusty Run, 1976

Arnold II, George R. – Wicked Style, 2007

Baffert, Bob A. – Captain Steve, 1999; Arabian Light, 2000

Basile, Anthony – T.V. Commercial, 1967; Highland Park, 1982

Best, John R. – Square Eddie, 2008

Byrne, Patrick B. – Favorite Trick, 1997

Carroll, Del W. – Gentleman James, 1966; Strike Your Colors, 1978

Casse, Mark E. – Classic Empire, 2016

Colebrook, Ben – Knicks Go, 2018

Conway, James P. – Ornamento, 1962

Cotton, E.L. – Pellicle, 1945

Cox, Brad H. – Essential Quality, 2020

Curtis Jr., William – Gold Stage, 1979

Davis Jr., Doug – Annihilate ‘em, 1972

Dodson, Doug – Packer Captain, 1974

Drysdale, Neil – Tasso, 1985

Fanning, Jerry – Gonquin, 1977

Firestone, Bertram R. – D’Accord, 1981

Gaver, John – Devil Diver, 1941; Big Stretch, 1950; Straight Face, 1952

Gentry, Loyd – Umbrella Fella, 1964

Goode, J.M. – f-Durazna, 1943

Griffin, Strother – Jovial Jove, 1955

Griffitt, D.H. – Crater Fire, 1984

Adams, Johnny – Hasty Road, 1953

Albarado, Robby – Wicked Style, 2007; Free Drop Billy, 2017

Anderson, Pete – Brother Tex, 1954

Atkinson, Ted – Big Stretch, 1950

Bailey, Jerry – Tejano Run, 1994; Boston Harbor, 1996

Bejarano, Rafael – Consolidator, 2004; Square Eddie, 2008

Bierman, Carrol – Alladier, 1951

Bourque, Curt – Polar Expedition (S), 1993 Bridgmohan, Shaun – J.B.’s Thunder, 2010 Brooks, Steve – Pellicle, 1945; Education, 1946; Shy Guy, 1947; Round Table, 1956 Brumfield, Don – Hard Work, 1969; Man of the Moment, 1970; Annihilate ‘em, 1972; Packer Captain, 1974; Gold Stage, 1979 Castellano, Javier – Eurosilver, 2003 Church, Ken – Oil Capitol, 1949

Combest, Jim – Namon, 1958

Cook, William M. – Roman Line, 1961

Cordero Jr., Angel – Fast Play (S), 1988 Day, Pat – Mountain Cat (S)-B, 1992; Honour and Glory, 1995; Favorite Trick, 1997; Cat Thief, 1998

Delahoussaye, Eddie – Strike Your Colors, 1978

Trainers – Breeders’ Futurity

Hirsch, Max – Roman Flag, 1939

Hodgins, Jack C. – Shy Guy, 1947; Fulcrum, 1957

Hofmans, David E. – Siphonic, 2001

Jolley, LeRoy – Duel, 1963

Jolley, Moody – Round Table, 1956

Jones, Ben A. – Whirlaway, 1940

Laurin, Lucien – Dike, 1968

Long, Jack – Man of the Moment, 1970

Lukas, D. Wayne – Dance Floor (S), 1991; Mountain Cat (S), 1992; Honour and Glory, 1995; Boston Harbor, 1996; Cat Thief, 1998; Consolidator, 2004

Maker, Michael J. – Joha, 2012

McGaughey III, Claude R. – Fast Play (S), 1988

McPeek, Kenneth G. – Tejano Run, 1994; Noble’s Promise, 2009; Rattle N Roll, 2021 Miller, MacKenzie – Windjammer, 1971

Nafzger, Carl – Fairway Phantom, 1980; Orono, 1986

O’Neill, Doug F. – Great Hunter, 2006

Parke, Burley – Occupation, 1942

Parke, I.H. – Education, 1946; Olympia, 1948

Pletcher, Todd A. – We Miss Artie, 2013; Carpe Diem, 2014; Forte, 2022; Locked, 2023; Ted Noffey, 2025

Puckett, J.D. – He’s a Pistol, 1960

Jockeys – Breeders’ Futurity

Delahoussaye, John – Fulcrum, 1957

Desormeaux, Kent – Dullahan, 2011

Dodson, Doug – Jovial Jove, 1955

Espinoza, Victor – Great Hunter, 2006

Fires, Earlie – Dike, 1968

Gaffalione, Tyler – East Avenue, 2024

Garner, Willie – Olympia, 1948

Gomez, Garrett – Captain Steve, 1999

Green, Bennie – Straight Face, 1952

Haas, Leon – Roman Flag, 1939; Occupation, 1942; Air Sailor, 1944

Hansman, Larney – He’s a Pistol, 1960

Hawley, Sandy – Orono, 1986

Hernandez Jr., Brian – Rattle N Roll, 2021

Higley, Jesse – f-Durazna, 1943

Jacinto, John – Dawn of War, 2005

Jimenez, Albin – Knicks Go, 2018

Lanerie, Corey – Brody’s Cause, 2015

Leparoux, Julien – Classic Empire, 2016

Lively, John – Fairway Phantom, 1980; Highland Park, 1982

Longden, John – Whirlaway, 1940

Lucas, W.D. – Duel, 1963

Lynch, Jimmy – Ornamento, 1962

Manganello, Mike – Provante, 1973

Maple, Eddie – Harbor Springs, 1975; Swale, 1983; Forty Niner, 1987

Pupino, Anthony – Alladier, 1951

Robertson, Hugh H. – Polar Expedition (S), 1993

Romans, Dale L. – Dawn of War, 2005; Dullahan, 2011; Brody’s Cause, 2015; Free Drop Billy, 2017

Schulhofer, Flint S. – Slavic (S), 1989

Stall Jr., Albert M. – J.B.’s Thunder, 2010

Stephens, Woodford C. – Brother Tex, 1954; Harbor Springs, 1975; Swale,1983; Forty Niner, 1987

Tappen, George – Johnstown, 1938

Tinsley Jr., J.E. – Tinsley, 1965

Trotsek, Harry – Oil Capitol, 1949; Hasty Road, 1953

Walsh, Brendan P. – Maxfield, 2019; East Avenue, 2024

Ward Jr., John T. – Sky Mesa, 2002

Warren, Ronnie G. – Sir Bordeaux, 1990

Werstler, Charles R. – Hard Work, 1969

Wilson, A.G. – Air Sailor, 1944

Wingfield, R.E. – Toby’s Brother, 1959

Wright, Vester R. – Namon, 1958; Roman Line, 1961

Zakoor Jr., Dave – Provante, 1973 Zito, Nicholas P. – Eurosilver, 2003

Maragh, Rajiv – Joha, 2012

Martinez, Willie – Noble’s Promise, 2009

McCarron, Chris – Siphonic, 2001

McCreary, Conn – Devil Diver, 1941

McHargue, Darrel – Run Dusty Run, 1976; D’Accord, 1981

Montoya, Daryl – Crater Fire, 1984

Nazareth, John – Umbrella Fella, 1964

Nichols, Jimmy – Tinsley, 1965; Gentleman James, 1966

Olivares, Frank – Gonquin, 1977

Ortiz Jr., Irad – Forte, 2022

Ortiz, Jose – Maxfield, 2019; Locked, 2023

Pincay Jr., Laffit – Windjammer, 1971; Tasso, 1985

Prado, Edgar – Sky Mesa, 2002

Ramos, Wigberto – Sir Bordeaux, 1990

Rotz, John L. – Toby’s Brother, 1959

Saez, Luis – Essential Quality, 2020

Santos, Jose – Slavic (S), 1989

Sellers, Shane – Arabian Light, 2000

Stout, Jimmy – Johnstown, 1938

Velazquez, John – We Miss Artie, 2013; Carpe Diem, 2014; Ted Noffey, 2025

Woods Jr., Charles – Dance Floor (S), 1991

Ycaza, Manuel – T.V. Commercial, 1967

Breeders’ Futurity History

2025 Ted Noffey* John Velazquez (122) Blackout Time

Spendthrift Farm Todd A. Pletcher Cristian Torres (122) Flavien Prat (122) (Eric P. Gustavson)

2024 East Avenue Tyler Gaffalione (122) Ferocious

Godolphin Brendan P. Walsh Luis Saez (122) John Velazquez (122) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2023 Locked* Jose Ortiz (122) The Wine Steward

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Todd A. Pletcher Luis Saez (122) Brian Hernandez Jr. (122) (Aron Wellman) and Walmac Farm (Gary Broad)

2022 Forte Irad Ortiz Jr. (122) Loggins

Repole Stable (Mike Repole) and Todd A. Pletcher Florent Geroux (122) Ricardo Santana Jr. (122) St. Elias Stable (Vincent Viola)

2021 Rattle N Roll Brian Hernandez Jr. (122) Double Thunder

Lucky Seven Stable Kenneth G. McPeek Paco Lopez (122) Jose Ortiz (122) (Michael J. Mackin)

2020 Essential Quality* Luis Saez (122) Keepmeinmind

Godolphin Brad H. Cox David Cohen (122) Tyler Gaffalione (122) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2019 Maxfield Jose Ortiz (121) Gouverneur

Godolphin Brendan P. Walsh Javier Castellano (121) Florent Geroux (121) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2018 Knicks Go Albin Jimenez (121) Signalman

KRA Stud Farm (Jin Woo Lee) Ben Colebrook Brian Hernandez Jr. (121) Javier Castellano (121)

2017 Free Drop

Robby Albarado (121)

Albaugh Family Stables Dale Romans Jon Court (121) Florent

2016 Classic Empire* Julien Leparoux (121) Lookin At Lee

John C. Oxley Mark E. Casse Ricardo Santana Jr. (121) Brian Hernandez Jr. (121)

2015 Brody’s Cause Corey Lanerie (121) Exaggerator

Albaugh Family Stable Dale L. Romans Kent Desormeaux (121)

(121) 2014 Carpe Diem* John Velazquez (121) Mr.

WinStar Farm and Todd A. Pletcher Jon Court (121)

(121) Stonestreet Stables

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Todd A. Pletcher E.T. Baird (121)

Bluegrass Equine Bloodstock Michael J. Maker Luis Contreras (121)

(121) Majestic

Donegal Racing (Jerry Crawford) Dale L. Romans Garrett Gomez (121)

(Andrea S. Pollack) 2009

Eramia (121)

2003

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Dale L. Romans

(121)

Rafael Bejarano (121) Mike

Robert B. and Beverly J. Lewis D. Wayne Lukas Robby Albarado (121) Pat

(121)

Buckram Oak Farm Nicholas P. Zito Larry Melancon (121)

Fustok) 2002

2001 Siphonic Chris McCarron (121)

Amerman Racing

David E. Hofmans Tony D’Amico (121)

(121) (John and Jerome Amerman)

2000 Arabian Light* Shane Sellers (121)

Breeders’ Futurity History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1995 Honour and Glory* Pat Day (121)

Michael Tabor

1994 Tejano Run

Roy K. Monroe

1993 Polar Expedition *(S)

James B. Cody

1992 Mountain Cat *(S)-B

Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young)

1991 Dance Floor (S)

D. Wayne Lukas

City by Night Blushing Jim

Willie Martinez (121)

Julie Krone (121)

Jerry Bailey (121) Cinch Gold Miner

Kenneth McPeek

Curt Bourque (121)

Hugh H. Robertson

Pat Day (121)

D. Wayne Lukas

Charles Woods Jr. (121)

Craig Perret (121)

Mike Morgan (121)

Goodbye Doeny (S) Solly’s Honor

Jerry Bailey (121)

Shane Sellers (121)

Living Vicariously (S) Boundlessly (S)

Jerry Bailey (121)

Shane Sellers (121)

Star Recruit (S) Count the Time (S)

3 Oaktown Stable

D. Wayne Lukas

Ricardo Lopez (121)

Shane Sellers (121) (Lewis Burrell Sr. et al)

1990 Sir Bordeaux

Donald G. Hardamon

Wigberto Ramos (121) Wall Street Dancer Fire In Ice (S)

Ronnie G. Warren

Sebastian Madrid (121) Pat Day (121) and Ray Trisler

1989 Slavic* (S)

Jose Santos (121) Top Snob Harry (S)

William Haggin Perry Flint S. Schulhofer

Dean Kutz (121) Carlos Marquez Jr. (121)

1988 Fast Play (S) Angel Cordero Jr. (121) Lorenzoni (S) Bio 1:45

Ogden Phipps

1987 Forty Niner*

Claiborne Farm

1986 Orono

Claude R. McGaughey III

Randy Romero (121) Laffit Pincay Jr. (121)

Eddie Maple (121) Hey Pat Sea Trek

W.C. Stephens Pat Day (121) Dean Kutz (121)

Sandy Hawley (121) Alysheba Pledge Card (S) 1:45 1/5

3/4 Bayview Stable Çarl Nafzger

1985 Tasso*

Don Brumfield (121) Chris McCarron (121)

Laffit Pincay Jr. (121) Regal Dreamer Thundering Force

Gerald Robins and Timothy Sams Neil Drysdale

1984 Crater Fire*

S.D. Hinkle IV and D.D. Crater

1983 Swale*

Claiborne Farm

1982 Highland Park

Bwamazon Farm

1981 D’Accord*

Bertram R. Firestone

1980 Fairway Phantom

William Floyd

1979 Gold Stage

Mrs. Philip Hofmann

1978 Strike Your Colors

William S. Farish III

1977 Gonquin*

James Scully

1976 Run Dusty Run*

Golden Chance Farm Inc.

1975 Harbor Springs

Daryl Montoya (121) Don Brumfield (121)

Daryl Montoya (121) Nickel Back Cullendale

D.H. Griffitt Pat Day (121) Garth Patterson (121)

Eddie Maple (121) Spender Back Bay Barrister 1:44

W.C. Stephens Jeff Fell (121) Nick Petro (121)

John Lively (121) Caveat Bright Baron 1:43 3/5

Anthony Basile

Eddie Maple (121) Gerland Gallitano (121)

Darrel McHargue (121) Lets Dont Fight

Bertram R. Firestone John Lively (121) Julio C. Espinoza (121)

John Lively (121) Total Pleasure Quick

Carl Nafzger

Pat Valenzuela (121) Don Brumfield (121)

Don Brumfield (121) Degenerate Jon Tonka Wakhan

William Curtis Jr. Jose Amy (121) M.A. Holland (121)

Eddie Delahoussaye (122) Lot o’ Gold Uncle Fudge

Del W. Carroll

Richard dePass (122) Mark Sellers (122)

Frank Olivares (122) Sunny Songster Jaycean

Jerry Fanning

Jim McKnight (122) Julio C. Espinoza (122)

Darrel McHargue (122) Banquet Table Get the Axe

William E. Adams

Garth Patterson (122) William Gavidia (122)

Eddie Maple (122) Best Bee Scrutiny 1:27

Louis Lee Haggin II W.C. Stephens

1974 Packer Captain

Eagle Mountain Farm

1973 Provante

G.E. Sanders

1972 Annihilate ‘em

Patricia Blass

1971 Windjammer*

Cragwood Stable

1970 Man of the Moment

Circle M Farm

1969 Hard Work*

Dixiana

Eddie Delahoussaye (122) Larry Snyder (122)

Don Brumfield (122) Master Derby Ruggles Ferry

Doug Dodson

Julio C. Espinoza (122) Tommy Barrow (122)

Mike Manganello (122) Training Table Wage Raise

Dave Zakoor Jr.

Jimmy Nichols (122) James W. Moseley (122)

Don Brumfield (122) Rocket Pocket Crimson Falcon

Doug Davis Jr. Ray Sibille (122) Bernard Walt (122)

Laffit Pincay Jr. (122) Central Paris Brilliant Native

MacKenzie Miller

Thomas Meyers (122) Don Brumfield (122)

Don Brumfield (122) Whisk Raja Baba

Jack Long

Carlos H. Marquez (122) Braulio Baeza (122)

Don Brumfield (122) Toasted Lanyon

Charles R. Werstler John L. Rotz (122) Ron Turcotte (122)

1968 Dike Earlie Fires (122) Mr. Leader

Claiborne Farm

1967 T.V. Commercial*

Bwamazon Farm

1966 Gentleman James

Michael G. Phipps

1965 Tinsley

Fred W. Hooper

1964 Umbrella Fella*

Ford Stables

Lucien Laurin

Kenny Knapp (122) Don Brumfield (122)

Manuel Ycaza (122) Family Fun Tampa Trouble

Anthony Basile

Pete Anderson (122) Don Brumfield (122)

Jimmy Nichols (122) Monitor Yorkville

Del W. Carroll

William Harmatz (122) Billy Phelps (122)

Jimmy Nichols (122) Francis U.a Woodford

J.E. Tinsley Jr.

John L. Rotz (122) Ken Church (122)

John Nazareth (122) Seafes Florida State

Loyd Gentry

R.J. Campbell (122) Ray Broussard (122)

1963 Duel W.D. Lucas (122) Ishkoodah Bleacherite

Claiborne Farm

1962 Ornamento

Darby Dan Farm

1961 Roman Line

T.A. Grissom

1960 He’s a Pistol*

J. Graham Brown

LeRoy Jolley

Ronnie Baldwin (122) William Fox (122)

Jimmy Lynch (122) Copy Chief No Reprieve

James P. Conway

Jacinto Vasquez (122) Norman Cox (122)

William M. Cook (122) Times Roman Crafty Actor

Vester R. Wright

Willie Carstens (122) Mike Sorrentino (122)

Larney Hansman (122) Zebadiah Busher’s Beauty

J.D. Puckett

Ralph Borgemenke (122)

William M. Cook (122)

Breeders’ Futurity History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1959 Toby’s Brother John L. Rotz (122) All Hands

Gene Van Deren and O.S. Deming R.E. Wingfield

John Heckmann (122) Doug Dodson (122)

1958 Namon Jim Combest (122) Pilot

T.A. Grissom

Vester R. Wright Steve Brooks (122) Jimmy Nichols (122)

1957 Fulcrum John Delahoussaye (122) Can Trust

Mary V. Fisher

1956 Round Table

Claiborne Farm

1955 Jovial Jove

Jack C. Hodgins Ken Church (122) Dave Erb (122)

Steve Brooks (122) Missile

Moody Jolley

Pete Anderson (122)

Doug Dodson (122) Swoon’s Son

Ken Church (122)

Bwamazon Farm Strother Griffin Dave Erb (122) Steve

1954 Brother Tex Pete Anderson (122) Traffic Judge

W.C. Stephens W.C. Stephens L.C. Cook (122)

1953 Hasty Road*

Hasty House Farm

1952 Straight Face

Johnny Adams (122) Revolt

Harry Trotsek John Heckmann (119)

(117)

Greentree Stable John Gaver Joe Culmone (117)

1951 Alladier Carrol Bierman (117) Ed’s Pride

Harborvale Stable Anthony Pupino

1950 Big Stretch* Ted Atkinson (117)

Greentree Stable

Jack Skelly (119)

John Gaver A.D. Rivera (117)

1949 Oil Capitol* Ken Church (122) French Admiral

(122)

John L. Rotz (122)

Arnold Kirkland (119)

(114)

R.L. Baird (117)

Tom Gray Harry Trotsek Jesse Higley (117) D. Scurlock (122)

1948 Olympia* Willie Garner (122) Johns Joy

Fred W. Hooper I.H. Parke Jim Combest (122) Steve

1947 Shy Guy Steve Brooks (117) Carrara Marble

(117)

Dixiana Jack C. Hodgins Albert Bodiou (117) Willie Garner (117)

1946 Education* Steve Brooks (122) John’s

Mrs. Fred W. Hooper I.H. Parke W.L. Johnson (117) N.L. Pierson (117)

1945** Pellicle* Steve Brooks (117) Mr. Chairman

Hal Price Headley E.L. Cotton H. Keene (117) K. Knott (117)

1944** Air Sailor Leon Haas (119) Bymeabond

T.D. Buhl A.G. Wilson Willie Garner (117)

1943** f-Durazna Jesse Higley (116) Occupy

Brownell Combs J.M. Goode

George Woolf (122) W. Morrisey (117)

1942 Occupation* Leon Haas (122) Amber

John Marsch Burley Parke Ovie Scurlock (117)

1941 Devil Diver Conn McCreary (122) Miss Dogwood

Greentree Stable John Gaver Irving Anderson (114) Albert Bodiou (117)

1940 Whirlaway John Longden (122) Blue Pair

Calumet Farm

Ben A. Jones M. Berger (119) Jack Westrope (122)

1939 Roman Flag* Leon Haas (119) Dit

W. Arnold Hanger Max Hirsch Willie Garner (117)

1938 Johnstown* Jimmy Stout (119) Allegro

Belair Stud

George Tappen Joe Rosen (117)

*Winningfavorite.**RunatChurchillDowns.f-filly.S-Supplementarynomination. B-$1millionbonus. Runat6furlongsfrom1938-1949. Runat7furlongsfrom1950-1955. Runat7furlongs,184feetfrom1956-1980. Runat11/16milesfrom1981-present. Grade3,1973-1975;Grade2,1976-2003;Grade1,2004-present. RunonPolytrackfrom2006-2013.

Trainers Who Won Breeders’ Futurity and Alcibiades in the Same Year (4)

1986 Carl Nafzger (Orono and Zero Minus)

1995 D. Wayne Lukas (Honour and Glory, and Cara Rafaela)

1997 Pat Byrne (Favorite Trick and Countess Diana)

2023 Todd Pletcher (Locked and Candied)

2025 Todd Pletcher (Ted Noffey and Tommy Jo)

Jockeys Who Won Breeders’ Futurity and Alcibiades in the Same Year (10)

1959 John Rotz (Toby’s Brother and Rash Statement)

1963 W.D. Lucas (Duel and Secret Veil)

1972 Don Brumfield (Annihilate ‘em and Coraggioso)

1978 Eddie Delahoussaye (Strike Your Colors and Angel Island)

1984 Daryl Montoya (Crater Fire and Foxy Deen)

1986 Sandy Hawley (Orono and Zero Minus)

1989 Jose Santos (Slavic and Special Happening)

1995 Pat Day (Honour and Glory, and Cara Rafaela)

2004 Rafael Bejarano (Consolidator and Runway Model)

2020 Luis Saez (Essential Quality and Simply Ravishing)

2025 John Velazquez (Ted Noffey and Tommy Jo)

Bryan Station Stakes (G2)

22nd Running • Fall • 1 mile (turf) • 3-year-olds

The Bryan Station was named for a frontier fort near present-day Lexington that was the site of a battle between Kentucky settlers and British-led forces in 1782 near the end of the Revolutionary War. The settlers’ successful defense of the fort is a chapter in Kentucky history. A historical marker and a monument commemorate the site.

Milestones – Bryan Station Stakes

2025 Purse: $600,000

Stakes Record: 1:33 3/5, Very Special Lite, 1995

Largest Straight Payoff: $150.60, Ever Dangerous, 2020

Smallest Straight Payoff: $4.20, Gino’s Spirits (GB), 2001

Largest Field: 14, 2020

Smallest Field: 6, 1993; 1997

Largest Value to Winner: $344,100, Brilliant Berti, 2024

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

to a Grade 2 race for 2026.

Bryan Station Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Troubleshooting* Tyler Gaffalione (118) Tenacious Leader Giocoso

Donamire Farm (Mira Ball) Gregory D. Foley John Velazquez (118) Ben Curtis (122)

2024 Brilliant Berti Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Depiction

Klein Racing (Richard Klein) Cherie DeVaux Florent Geroux (118) Edgar Morales (118)

2023 Runaway Storm Colby Hernandez (118) Talk of the Nation

Robert J. Hunt

2022 Balnikhov (IRE)

Ethan W. West Jose Ortiz (118) Alex Achard (118)

Tyler Gaffalione (118) Wit Axthelm

Little Red Feather Racing (William Philip D’Amato

Jose Ortiz (118) Luis Saez (118) Koch), Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin) and Old Bones Racing Stable (Andrew Molasky)

2021 Camp Hope

Walking L Thoroughbreds

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Like the King

Kenneth G. McPeek John Velazquez (118) Tyler Gaffalione (120) (Scott Leeds)

2020 Ever Dangerous

Javier Castellano (118) Fancy Liquor

Reeves Thoroughbred Racing George Weaver Florent Geroux (122) John Velazquez (118) (Dean Reeves) and R. A. Hill Stable (Raymond Hill)

2015 Tweet Kitten

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey

2009 Get Stormy

Javier Castellano (118) Closing Bell Wayward Kitten

Chad C. Brown

Jose Lezcano (120) Lanfranco Dettori (118) Haggin Course

Javier Castellano (117) Rescue Squad Kinsella 1:37.49 yl 1 1/2

Sullimar Stables Thomas M. Bush Edgar Prado (117) Kent Desormeaux (117) Keeneland Course (Mary A. Sullivan)

2008 Cowboy Cal*

John Velazquez (123) dq-Seaspeak Deal Making 1:35.70 fm hd Stonerside Stable

Todd A. Pletcher Kent Desormeaux (117) Ramon Dominguez (117) Haggin Course (Robert C. and Janice McNair) Seaspeakdisqualifiedfromfirstandplacedsecond.

2007 Inca King

Heiligbrodt Racing Stable

Shaun Bridgmohan (123) Distorted Reality Admiral Bird

Steven M. Asmussen Rafael Bejarano (120) Robby Albarado (117) Haggin Course (L. William Heiligbrodt)

2006 Kip Deville (3)

3

Julien Leparoux (120) Storm Treasure (3) Smart Enough (3) 1:35.36 fm 1 1/4 IEAH Stables (Michael A. Iavarone) Richard E. Dutrow Jr. Shaun Bridgmohan (117) Rafael Bejarano (120) Haggin Course

2005 T.D. Vance (3) Edgar Prado (123) Rey de Cafe (3) Therecomesatiger (3) 1:34.65 fm 1 Courtlandt Farm (Donald A. Adam) H. Graham Motion Rafael Bejarano (123) Mark Guidry (117) Keeneland Course

2001 Gino’s Spirits (GB)* (5) Pat Day (124) Watch (4) Binalegend (5) 1:36.06

1/2 Rio Aventura Stables W. Elliott Walden Craig Perret (119) Dean Kutz (119) Keeneland Course (Jose L. DeCamargo) and Thomas F. VanMeter II

2000 White Beauty (5) Tim Doocy (120) Pratella (5) Solar Bound (4) 1:35 1/5

nk Greg Rand and Terry J. Brennan Terry J. Brennan Charles Woods Jr. (124) Mike Smith (118) Keeneland Course

1999 Pratella (4) Larry Melancon (119) License Fee (4) White Beauty (4) 1:34 4/5

1 1/2 (1st) Bruce Barton and Alvin Haynes Burk Kessinger Jr. Robby Albarado (117) Calvin Borel (117) Keeneland Course

Bryan Station Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1999 Mingling Glances (5) Larry Melancon (123) Red Cat (4) Cuanto Es (4)

(2nd) Morven Stud (John Kluge) Burk Kessinger Jr. Pat Day (123)

1998 Mingling Glances (4) Pat Day (115) My Own Lovely Lee (6)

A.D. Haynes, B. Barton Burk Kessinger Jr. Calvin Borel (115)

Robby Albarado (119) Keeneland Course

Dance Design (IRE) (5)

Shane Sellers (115) Keeneland Course and Turf Stable (Rusty Jones)

1997 Cut the Cuteness (5) Mike Rowland (115) Duck Trap (4) Totally Naughty (7)

Al and Mark Corrado Carl Bowman Robby Albarado (118)

1996 Mariuka (3) Willie Martinez (114) Romy (5)

(1st) Calumet Farm (Henryk Charles LoPresti Juvenal Diaz (117)

Oliver Castillo (118) Keeneland Course

Lady (4)

Shane Sellers (114) Keeneland Course de Kwiatkowski)

1996 Vice On Ice (5) Shane Sellers (117) Memories (IRE) (5)

(2nd) Mathew K. Firestone

William I. Mott Pat Day (123)

With Hope (5)

Larry Melancon (114) Keeneland Course

1995 Very Special Lite (5) Aaron Gryder (114) Camlan (4) Romy (4)

Prestonwood Farm W. Elliott Walden

Dave Penna (117)

Juvenal Diaz (123) Keeneland Course (Art, Jack & J.R. Preston)

1994 Vinista (4)

Allen E. Paulson

1993 Gray Cashmere (4)

Shane Sellers (116) Assert Oneself (4)

Alex L. Hassinger Jr. Aaron Gryder (126)

Jose Santos (113) Auto Dial

Peter S. Willmott Peter M. Vestal

*Winningfavorite.Grade3,2008-2009,2022-2025.Grade2,2026

Shane Sellers (121)

Bobby Com (4)

Brian Peck (116)

Randy Romero (113)

Throughoutitshistory,theturfstakeshasbeenrununderdifferentconditions:11/16milesforfilliesandmares,4-year-oldsandup(1993);11/16milesforfilliesand mares,3-year-oldsandup(1994);1mileforfilliesandmares,3-year-oldsandup(1995-2001);1milefor3-year-olds(2005-2009,2021-present);11/8milesfor 3-year-oldsontheundercardoftheBreeders’CupWorldChampionships(2015,2020).

Commonwealth Stakes (G3)

39th Running • Spring • 7 furlongs • 4-year-olds and up

The Commonwealth is one of the supporting features on the day of the Toyota Blue Grass (G2) during the Spring Meet.

Milestones – Commonwealth Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000

Stakes Record: 1:20 2/5, Distorted Humor, 1998

Largest Straight Payoff: $66.20, Black Tie Affair (IRE), 1990

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.60, Richter Scale, 2000

Largest Field: 12, 2006; 2019

Smallest Field: 5, 1999; 2010; 2011; 2013

Largest Value to Winner: $274,784, Sun King, 2006

2025 Extra Anejo (5)

Commonwealth Stakes History

Winchell Thoroughbreds Steven M. Asmussen

(Ron Winchell)

2024 Bo Cruz (4) Jose Ortiz (118) Minnesota

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Roger Cettina, Brian Pagano, Albert M. Stall Jr. Tyler Gaffalione (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Patrick Grippo, Peter Martine and Bruno De Julio

2023 Here Mi Song (5) Alex Achard (118) Hoist the Gold (4)

Nathan Hayden William Stinson Jr. Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Joel Rosario (118)

2022 Prevalence (4) Tyler Gaffalione (118) Long Range Toddy (6) O

Godolphin Brendan P. Walsh Paco Lopez (118) Irad

Jr. (118) (Mohammed Al Maktoum)

2021 Flagstaff* (7) Joel Rosario (118)

Lane’s End Racing (W. S. Farish) John W. Sadler Gerardo Corrales (118) Luis Saez (118) and Hronis Racing (Kosta Hronis)

2020 Not run

2019 Bobby’s Wicked One (4) Miguel Mena (118) Warrior’s Club (5)

Autumn Hill Farms Racing Stables Albert M. Stall Jr. Jon Court (118)

Gaffalione (120) (Robert Guidry)

2018 Warrior’s Club (4) Luis Contreras (118) Limousine Liberal (6)

Churchill Downs Racing Club D. Wayne Lukas Corey Lanerie (118) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) (Gary Palmisano)

2017 Awesome Slew (4) Joel Rosario (118) A. P. Indian (7)

Live Oak Plantation

Mark E. Casse Joe Bravo (120) Jose Ortiz (118) (Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber)

2016 Ami’s Flatter (4)

Ivan Dalos

Martin Garcia (118) Ready for Rye (4)

Josie Carroll Javier Castellano (120) Florent Geroux (120)

2015 Kobe’s Back (4) Gary Stevens (118) C. Zee (4)

C R K Stable (Lee Searing)

Peter Eurton

Edgard Zayas (120) Calvin Borel (118)

2014 Occasional View (6) Alan Garcia (118) Dimension (GB) (6)

Robert Trussell

Kenneth G. McPeek James Graham (118) Jose Lezcano (118) Polytrack

2013 Handsome Mike (4) Mario Gutierrez (118) Gantry (6)

Reddam Racing

Doug F. O’Neill

Richard Eramia (118) Joe Bravo (118) Polytrack (J. Paul Reddam)

2012 Lonesome Street (5) Joel Rosario (118) Bergerac (5)

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey

2011 Aikenite (4)

Dogwood Stable

Michael J. Maker

Javier Castellano (118) Garrett Gomez (118) Polytrack

John R. Velazquez (118) Cool Bullett (4)

Todd A. Pletcher

Shaun Bridgmohan (118) Jamie Theriot (118) Polytrack (W. Cothran Campbell)

Commonwealth Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2010 Together Indy (4) Kent Desormeaux (118) Congressional Page (5) Imperial Council (4) 1:22.34 ft 1

R.A. Hill Stable (Raymond A. Hill) George Weaver

Javier Castellano (118)

Julien Leparoux (118) Polytrack and Vic Fontana

2009 Eternal Star (5)

Eibar Coa (118) Rebellion (GB) (6) My Pal Charlie (4)

Harry C. and Tom O. Meyerhoff Michael J. Trombetta Edgar Prado (118)

2008 Rebellion (GB) (5) Edgar Prado (118) Elite Squadron (4)

Julien Leparoux (122) Polytrack

Medzendeekron (5) 1:21.40

Hickory Tree Stables H. Graham Motion John Velazquez (118) Eibar Coa (120) Polytrack (Jim and Marylea Treptow)

2007 Silent Name (JPN) (5) Corey Nakatani (118) Lewis Michael (4) Steel Light (6) 1:21.26

4 Stronach Stables (Elfriede and Gary Mandella Rene Douglas (118) Garrett Gomez (118) Polytrack Andrew Stronach), Wertheimer and Frere (Alain Wertheimer)

2006 Sun King (4) Corey Nakatani (120) Kazoo (8)

Tracy Farmer Nicholas P. Zito

2005 Clock Stopper (5) Jerry

Overbrook Farm Dallas Stewart

Richard Migliore (118)

Charles Lopez (118)

Julien Leparoux (118)

Cornelio Velasquez (118) (William T. Young Jr.)

2004 Lion Tamer * (4) Mike Smith (122) Private Horde (5)

Michael B. Tabor Todd A. Pletcher Jason Lumpkins (120) David Flores (118)

2003 Smooth Jazz (4) Edgar Prado (118) Crafty C.T. (5)

Michael B. Tabor Todd A. Pletcher Jerry Bailey (118) Shane

2002 Orientate (4) Pat Day (120) Aldebaran (4)

Beverly J. and Robert B. Lewis D. Wayne Lukas Kent Desormeaux (118) Rene Douglas (118)

2001 Alannan (5) Edgar Prado (118) Valiant Halory (4)

Eaglestone Farm

Carl A. Nafzger Jon Court (118) Craig Perret (118) (William A. Marquard)

2000 Richter Scale* (6) Richard Migliore (121) Son’s Corona (5)

Nancy R. and Richard S. Kaster Mary Jo Lohmeier Jerry Bailey (117) Pat Day (117) and Nathan Fox

1999 Good and Tough* (4) Shane Sellers (115) Purple Passion (5)

David P. Reynolds Frank A. Alexander Mike Smith (115) Craig Perret (115)

1998 Distorted Humor (5) Gary Stevens (119) El Amante (5)

R.L. Reineman Stables Inc. W. Elliott Walden Jerry Bailey (114) Robby Albarado (121) and Prestonwood Farm Inc. (Art, Jack and J.R. Preston)

1997 Victor Cooley (4) Eddie Martin Jr. (114) Western Winter (5) Appealing Skier (4)

Windways Farm (Jeff Begg) Mark R. Frostad Jerry Bailey (112) Mike Smith (121)

1996 Afternoon Deelites (4) Kent Desormeaux (124) Western Winter (4) Our Emblem (5)

Burt Bacharach Richard Mandella Shane Sellers (113) Pat Day (115)

1995 Golden Gear (4) Craig Perret (118) Turkomatic (4) Lit de Justice (5)

Barry Golden Doug Matthews Dean Sarvis (112) Corey Nakatani (121)

1994 Memo* (CHI) (7) Paul Atkinson (118) American Chance (5) British Banker (6)

Stud Panter (Francisco Cortez) Richard Mandella Craig Perret (115) Shane Sellers (115)

1993 Alydeed* (4) Craig Perret (115) Binalong (4)

Senor Speedy (6)

Kinghaven Farms Roger Attfield Jerry Bailey (118) Jorge Chavez (115)

1992 Pleasant Tap* (5) Eddie Delahoussaye (116) To Freedom (4)

Buckland Farm (Thomas M. Evans) Christopher Speckert

Julie Krone (115)

1991 Black Tie Affair (IRE) (5) Juvenal Diaz (124) Housebuster (4)

Run On the Bank (5)

Shane Sellers (118)

Exemplary Leader (5)

Jeff Sullivan Ernie T. Poulos Craig Perret (124) Corey Black (115)

1990 Black Tie Affair (IRE) (4) Mark Guidry (121) Shaker Knit (5)

Jeff Sullivan Ernie T. Poulos

1989 Sewickley (4)

Momsfurrari (6)

Herbert McCauley (115) Ricardo Lopez (118)

Randy Romero (115) Irish Open (5)

Dancing Spree (4)

Robert S. Evans Flint S. Schulhofer Shane Romero (118) Angel Cordero Jr. (115)

1988 Calestoga (6) Don Brumfield (120) You’re No Bargain (4) Carload (6)

N&M Boyce Inc. (Neil B. Neil B. Boyce Jesse Garcia (117) Earlie Fires (120) Boyce and Michelle Boyce) and Frank Clumsky

1987 Exclusive Enough (3) Mike Smith (111) f-Lazer Show (4) High Brite (3)

Dorothy Scharbauer Jack Van Berg Pat Day (120) Jacinto Vasquez (120) (ETR)

*Winningfavorite.

Runat6furlongsfrom1987-1988.Runat7furlongsfrom1989-present. Listed,1987-1989;Grade2,1994-2012;Grade3,1990-1993,2013-present. RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014.

BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnotholda2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisracewasnotrunin2020.

Baird Doubledogdare Stakes (G2)

SponsoredbyBaird

31st Running • Spring • 1 1/16 miles • 4-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

Claiborne Farm’s Doubledogdare was an outstanding performer at Keeneland, winning the 1955 Alcibiades, 1956 Ashland and 1956 Spinster Stakes. Trained by the legendary Moody Jolley, Doubledogdare earned champion filly honors in 1955 and 1956. Hilliard Lyons, which joined Baird in 2019, has presented the Doubledogdare Stakes since 2011. Baird is proud to continue this tradition.

Milestones – Doubledogdare Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000

Stakes Record: 1:41 1/5, Lu Ravi, 1999

Largest Straight Payoff: $79.76, Gin Gin, 2025

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.60, Silverbulletday, 2000; Malathaat, 2022

Largest Field: 12, 2018

Smallest Field: 3, 2000

Largest Value to Winner: $214,288, Gin Gin, 2025

Doubledogdare Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

Calumet Farm (Brad Kelley)

2024 Raging Sea (4) Flavien Prat (120)

Alpha Delta Stables (Jon Clay) Chad C. Brown Reylu Gutierrez (118) Javier Castellano (118)

2023 Frost Point (5)

Flavien Prat (118) Hidden

Godolphin William I. Mott

Reylu Gutierrez (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2022 Malathaat* (4) John Velazquez (118) Bonny South (5)

Shadwell Stable (Gregory Clarke) Todd A. Pletcher Florent Geroux (118) Joseph Talamo (120) dh-Lady Mystify (4) Flavien Prat (118)

2021 Bonny South (4) Florent Geroux (118) Royal Flag (5) Graceful Princess (5) 1:43.46 ft hd Juddmonte (Fahad bin Khalid) Brad H. Cox

Joel Rosario (118) Luis Saez (118)

2020 Not run

2019 Electric Forest (4) Jose Ortiz (118) Go Google Yourself (4) Promise of Spring (5) 1:45.25 sy 3/4

Stonestreet Stables Chad C. Brown

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Corey Lanerie (118) (sealed) (Barbara Banke)

2018 Valadorna (4) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Apologynotaccepted (7) Song of Spring (4) 1:43.87 ft 3/4

Stonestreet Stables

Mark E. Casse

Julien Leparoux (118) Joel Rosario (118) (Barbara Banke)

2017 Unbridled Mo* (4) John Velazquez (120) Power of Snunner (7) Lady Fog Horn (5) 1:45.11 ft 3/4 Red Oak Stable (John Brunetti) Todd A. Pletcher Mike Smith (118) Albin Jimenez (120)

2016 Brooklynsway (4) Robby Albarado (118) I’m a Chatterbox (4) Ahh Chocolate (4) 1:42.86 ft 1 1/4

Naveed Chowhan Bernard Flint

Florent Geroux (118) Brian Hernandez Jr. (120)

2015 Deceptive Vision (5) John Velazquez (120) Lunar Surge (5) Blue Violet (5) 1:44.34 ft hd

Sam-Son Farm (Mark Samuel) Malcolm Pierce Corey Lanerie (118) Kerwin Clark (118)

2014 Sisterly Love (6) Stewart Elliott (118) Moment in Dixie (5) Emollient (4) 1:43.82 ft nk Gary Barber Mark E. Casse

Jose Lezcano (118) Mike Smith (123) Polytrack

2013 Ice Cream Silence (4) Rosie Napravnik (118) Sisterhood (4) Artemus Kitten (5) 1:44.66

nk G. Watts Humphrey Jr.

George R. Arnold II

Joel Rosario (118) Gary Stevens (118) Polytrack

2012 Pachattack (6)* Rajiv Maragh (118) Kathmanblu (4) La Gran Bailadora (5) 1:43.75

Flaxman Holdings Ltd. H. Graham Motion

Julien Leparoux (118) Corey Lanerie (118) Polytrack (Christoph Klemm)

2011 Embur’s Song (4) John R. Velazquez (117) Check the Label (4) dh-Washington Bridge (4) 1:41.62 ft nk Fares Farm Inc.

Todd A. Pletcher

Ramon A. Dominguez (121) Garrett Gomez (117) Polytrack (Issam M. Fares)

dh-Its Tea Time (4) Javier Castellano (117)

Doubledogdare Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2010 Haka (4)

Garrett Gomez (117) Funny Moon (4) Striking Dancer (4) 1:44.72

Claiborne Farm (Seth W. Hancock) Christophe Clement

2009 Indescribable* (5)

Julien Leparoux (117)

Kent Desormeaux (117) Serenading (5)

Courtlandt Farms (Donald A. Adam) William I. Mott

Robby Albarado (117)

2008 Carriage Trail (5) Kent Desormeaux (117) Say You Will (4)

Stuart S. Janney III and Claude R. McGaughey III

Julien Leparoux (117)

Robby Albarado (119) Polytrack

Tejida (6)

Julien Leparoux (117) Polytrack

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Edgar Prado (117) Polytrack Phipps Stable (O.M. Phipps)

2007 Asi Siempre* (5) Garrett Gomez (121) Pyramid Love (4) Warrior

Martin S. Schwartz Patrick L. Biancone

2006 Pool Land (4)

John Velazquez (117)

Melnyk Racing Stables Inc. Todd A. Pletcher

Julien Leparoux (117)

Fernando Jara (117) Polytrack

Robby Albarado (117) Shaun Bridgmohan (117) (Eugene Melnyk)

2005 Colony Band* (4) John Velazquez (117) La Reason (5)

Wertheimer (Alain Wertheimer) Todd A. Pletcher Corey Lanerie (117) Javier Castellano (117) and Frere

2004 Mayo On the Side (5) Pat Day (116) Cat Fighter (4)

Lothenbach Stables Inc. Carl A. Nafzger Cornelio Velasquez (116) John Velazquez (116) (Robert J. Lothenbach)

2003 Reason to Talk (4) Pat Day (116) Salty Farma (5)

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K and K Racing Stable David R. Vance Lonnie Meche (116) Cornelio Velasquez (116) (Ronald L. and Thomas Kirby)

2002 Dancethruthedawn* (4) Robby Albarado (116) Maltese Superb (5) DeBertie (5)

Sam-Son Farm Mark R. Frostad Jorge Chavez (116) Jerry Bailey (120) (Mrs. Elizabeth Samuel)

2001 Darling My Darling* (4) Mike Smith (116) Frankly My Dear (4) Fast Delivery (4)

Debby M. Oxley John T. Ward Jr. Jerry Bailey (118) Corey Nakatani (118)

2000 Silverbulletday* (4) Jerry Bailey (123) Roza Robata (5) Pepita Ramoje (5)

Michael E. Pegram Bob A. Baffert Pat Day (116) Willie Martinez (116)

1999 Lu Ravi* (4) Willie Martinez (120) Pantufla (4) Biogio’s Rose (5)

Yoshio Fujita Carl Bowman Shane Sellers (115) Jorge Chavez (118)

1998 Top Secret* (5) Joe Bravo (114) One Rich Lady (4) Pleasant Temper (4) 1:42 3/5

John H. Peace George R. Arnold II Jerry Bailey (120) Shane Sellers (114)

1994 Jeano (6) Shane Sellers (114) Casual Rendezvous (3) Clever Act (3) 1:24

Frances A. Genter Stable Carl A. Nafzger Dave Penna (112) Pat Day (112) (B. Smith & F. Williams)

1993 How Rare (4) Brent Bartram (123) Nannerl (6) Fujitime (5)

Norman R. Wooten and Billy G. Ashabraner Fabio Arguello Jr. (114) Donnie Miller Jr. (117) Bryant Wells

1992 Jeano (4) Shane Sellers (114) Erica’s Dream Jenny’s Playmate 1:22 3/5

Frances A. Genter Stable Carl A. Nafzger Richardo Lopez (123) Kerwin Clark (120) (Frances A. Genter)

*Winningfavorite. Runat7furlongsfrom1992-1994. Listed,1998-2006;Grade3,2007-2025.Grade2,2026. RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014. BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnotholda2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisracewasnotrunin2020.

Rood & Riddle

Dowager Stakes (G3)

SponsoredbyRood&RiddleEquineHospital

35th Running • Fall • 1 1/2 miles (turf) • 3-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

At 1½ miles on turf, the Fall Meet’s longest race for older fillies and mares is the Dowager. The name of the race is a play off the definition of dowager: a woman of stately dignity. Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital of Lexington has sponsored the Dowager since 2003.

Milestones – Dowager Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000

Stakes Record: 2:27.98, Temple City Terror, 2022

Largest Straight Payoff: $35.40, Senada, 2011

Smallest Straight Payoff: $3.40, Sudana, 1995

Largest Field: 14, 2014

Smallest Field: 6, 2010

Largest Value to Winner: $174,375, Temple City Terror, 2022

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

2025 Venencia (FR) (5) Ben Curtis (122)

Bradley Thoroughbreds (Peter R. Brendan P. Walsh

Dowager Stakes History

John Velazquez (122) Irad Ortiz Jr. (122) Bradley III), Laura Leigh Stable (Butch Lunsford), Jim Cone, Belmar Racing and Breeding (Vito Cucci), Team Hanley (Jay Hanley) and Cambron Equine (Anna and Tim Cambron)

2024 Chop Chop (4) Luan Machado (124)

Selective (Jerry Bach) Brad H. Cox

2023 Romagna Mia (GB)* (4) John Velazquez (121)

Team Valor International H. Graham Motion

Adam Beschizza (122) Ricardo

Transient (GB) (5)

(122)

Tyler Gaffalione (121) Julien Leparoux (121) (Barry Irwin)

2022 Temple City Terror (6) Tyler Gaffalione (121) Luck Money (5)

Pocket Aces Racing (Marc Brendan P. Walsh

Vincent Cheminaud (121) Luis Saez (121) Wampler and Jared Shoemaker) and Somewhere Stable Kentucky (Alan Burkhard)

2021 Summer in Saratoga (5) Corey Lanerie (121)

Highlander Training Center Joe Sharp

Joel Rosario (121) Florent Geroux (121) (Larry Hirsch)

2020 Blame Debbie* (3) Manuel Franco (118) Always Shopping (4) With Dignity (4)

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners H. Graham Motion

Tyler Gaffalione (121) Julien Leparoux (121) (Aron Wellman), Michael P. Cloonan and Timothy C. Thornton

2019 Gentle Ruler* (4) Chris Landeros (123) Elysea’s

Morsches Stable (Franz Morsches) Ian R. Wilkes

2018 Vexatious (4)

Florent Geroux (121)

Calumet Farm (Brad Kelley) Neil D. Drysdale

Javier Castellano (123) Feargal Lynch (121)

Brian Hernandez Jr. (121) Chris Landeros (121) Beach Flower disqualified from first and placed third.

2017 Apple Betty (IRE) (4) John Velazquez (121) Promotional (5)

Joseph Allen

Claude R. McGaughey III

Corey Lanerie (121) Jose Ortiz (121)

2016 Elektrum (IRE) (5)* Drayden Van Dyke (121) Apple Betty (IRE) (3) Swear by It (5)

Hronis Racing John Sadler

Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Corey Lanerie (121)

2015 Kitten’s Point (5)* Edgar Prado (123) Ceisteach (IRE) (4)

Jake Ballis and Rashard Lewis

Mott

2013 Preferential (GB) (4) Leandro Goncalves (121) Left a Message (4)

(GB) (5)

Dowager Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2012 Upperline (5)* James Graham (123) Ciao Bella (3)

Janicellaine (IRE) (4) 2:32.19 fm 3/4 Stone Farm, John H. Adger, Michael Stidham John Velazquez (118) Julien Leparoux (121) Haggin Course Oakcrest Farm and Michael Stidham

2011 Senada (4) Edgar S. Prado (120) Upperline (4)

Cheetah (4) 2:31.19 fm 3/4

Lael Stables (Roy Jackson) Barclay Tagg James Graham (120) Garrett K. Gomez (122) Haggin Course

2010 Casablanca Smile (CHI) (4)* Javier Castellano (125) Sweet and Flawless (4)

Speak Easy Gal (4) 2:33.70 fm 7 Green Hills Farm Inc. Claude R. McGaughey III

Julien R. Leparoux (120) Elvis Trujillo (122) Haggin Course (Leo Liaskos)

2009 Black Mamba (NZ)* (6) Robby Albarado (125) Winter View (5)

Bally Noe (4) 2:37.07 yl 1 1/2 Doubledown Stables Inc. John W. Sadler

Julien Leparoux (122)

James Graham (120) Haggin Course (Richard Templer)

2008 Herboriste (GB) (5) Julien Leparoux (120) Palmilla (5)

Northern Bloodstock Michael R. Matz Kent Desormeaux (122)

Caprice (GER) (5)

Jeremy Rose (120) Haggin Course (Amelie Ehrnrooth)

2007 Omeya (CHI) (7) Mark Guidry (120) Eres Magica (CHI) (4) Jade Queen (4) 2:31.15 fm 1 Augustin Stable Jonathan E. Sheppard Corey Lanerie (122) Robby Albarado (120) Keeneland Course (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2006 Louve Royale (IRE)* (5) Julien Leparoux (120) Bottiglia (5)

Bond Deal (IRE) (5) 2:32.59

1/2 Joseph Allen Patrick Biancone James Graham (120) Rafael Bejarano (120) Haggin Course

2005 Briviesca (GB) (4) John Jacinto (120) Cape Town Lass (4) Louve Royale (IRE) (4)

Darpat S. L. Stables William I. Mott Rafael Bejarano (120) Gary Stevens (120) Keeneland Course (Dario Hinojosa)

2004 Humaita (GER)* (4) Robby Albarado (122) Aud (4) Literacy (4) 2:33.28 sf no Andreas Jacobs H. Graham Motion Pat Day (120) Craig Perret (120) Haggin Course

2003 Spice Island (4) Cornelio Velasquez (120) Ocean Silk (3) Peacefally (IRE) (4)

Denlea Park Ltd. (Kim Butenhoff) John S. Pregman Jr. Pat Day (118)

Larry Melancon (120) Haggin Course

2002 Lapuma (5) Larry Melancon (119) San Dare (4) Volga (IRE) (4)

Highclere (Jeffry Morris) Alton H. Quanbeck Willie Martinez (119) Pat Day (119) Haggin Course

2001 Only to You (5) Robby Albarado (119) Bowl of Emeralds (4) Krisada (5)

Sam-Son Farm Mark R. Frostad Larry Melancon (119) Pat Day (119) Haggin Course (Mrs. Elizabeth Samuel)

2000 Illiquidity* (4) Jon Court (117) Jeunesse Doree (4) Cali (5)

Stonerside Stable Patrick B. Byrne Craig Perret (117) Mike Smith (117) Haggin Course (Janice and Robert C. McNair)

1999 Moments of Magic* (4) Shane Sellers (117) Queen’s Legend (4) Penne (6)

G. Watts Humphrey George R. Arnold II Larry Melancon (117)

Calvin Borel (119) Haggin Course and Louise I. Humphrey

1998 Verinha (BRZ) (4) Pat Day (114) Miss North Beach (5) Tedarshana (GB) (4)

nk Padua Stable (Satish K. Sanan) D. Wayne Lukas Calvin Borel (114) Robby Albarado Haggin Course

1997 Sagar Pride (IRE)* (4) Shane Sellers (114) Almost Saintly (3) Sequentially (5)

Scuderia Sant’Ambroeus Patrick B. Byrne Pat Day (110)

1996 Ampulla* (5)

Shane Sellers (121) Memories (IRE) (5)

Northcliff Farm (Mike Prentiss) Patrick B. Byrne Pat Day (124)

1995 Sudana* (4)

Shane Sellers (113) Gotta Wear Shades (4)

Robby Albarado (114) Haggin Course

Duda (5)

Craig Perret (113) Haggin Course

Good Morning Smile (7)

Allen E. Paulson Nicholas P. Zito Charles Woods Jr. (112) Larry Melancon (112) Keeneland Course

1994 Market Booster (5) Pat Day (123) My Mandy (5) Fairy Garden (6)

Moyglare Stud D. Wayne Lukas James Bruin (114)

Robert Landry (115) Keeneland Course

1993 Navarra (5) Brent Bartram (118) Classic Reign (4) Marshua’s River (6) 1:49 1/5 fm

Craig Singer Steven L. Morguelan Fabio Arguello Jr. (118)

1992 Green Noble (6) Steven Bahen (118) Liz Cee

Donna Barton (112) Keeneland Course

Super Fan 1:50 fm

Jurgen Schemmer Emile M. Allain Shane Sellers (113) Pat Day (120) Haggin Course

*Winningfavorite. Listed,1995-2014.Grade3,2015-present. Runat11/8milesin1992-1993.

Five Keeneland Stakes Races Have Resulted in a Dead Heat for the Win

1983 Fayette (G3) Cad and Frost King

1992 Ben Ali (G3) Loach and Profit Key

1997 Beaumont (G2) Make Haste and Screamer

2001 Valley View (G3) Chausson Poire and Cozzy Corner

2014 Central Bank Ashland (G1) Room Service and Rosalind

VisitLEX Elkhorn Stakes (G2)

SponsoredbyVisitLEX

41st Running • Spring • 1 1/2 miles (turf)

• 4-year-olds and up

Elkhorn Creek is an 86-mile-long stream located in Central Kentucky that runs through Fayette, Scott, Woodford and Franklin Counties. At one time, a branch of South Elkhorn Creek ran through downtown Lexington, where the creek’s directional flow was used to plot Main and other downtown streets. VisitLEX began to sponsor the race in 2024.

Milestones – Elkhorn Stakes

2025 Purse: $400,000

Stakes Record: 2:27.10, Channel Maker, 2022

Largest Straight Payoff: $63.60, Dramedy, 2015

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.60, Lure, 1994

Largest Field: 12, 2005; 2007; 2009; 2010; 2025

Smallest Field: 5, 1994; 1998

Largest Value to Winner: $226,300, Utah Beach, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Elkhorn Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Utah Beach (5) Vincent Cheminaud (118) Limited Liability (6) Anglophile (5)

Jeffrey S. Amling and Merriebelle Ignacio Correas IV Lanfranco Dettori (118) Joel Rosario (118) Stable (Charles Noell)

2024 Silver Knott (GB) (4) Flavien Prat (118) Missed the Cut (5) Bold Act (IRE) (4) 2:27.37 fm 1 1/2 Godolphin Charles Appleby Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Lanfranco Dettori (120) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al) 2023 Verstappen (4) Declan Cannon (118) Red Knight (9) Another Mystery (7) 2:29.28 gd hd Andrew Farm (Richard Brodie), Brendan P. Walsh Gerardo Corrales (120) Jareth Loveberry (118) For the People Racing Stable (Mike Morgan) and Windmill Manor Farm (Rick Imbert)

2022 Channel Maker (8) Luis Saez (118) Another Mystery (6) Bemma’s Boy (7) 2:27.10 fm 1 1/4 Wachtel Stable (Adam Wachtel), William I. Mott Flavien Prat (118) Umberto Rispoli (118) Gary Barber, R. A. Hill Stable (Raymond A. Hill III) and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing (Dean Reeves) 2021 Say the Word (6) Luis Saez (123) Channel Cat (6) Crafty Daddy (5) 2:28.26 gd 1 1/2 Agave Racing Stable (Mark Philip D’Amato Corey Lanerie (118) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Martinez) and Sam-Son Farm (Mark Samuel)

2020 Zulu Alpha* (7) Tyler Gaffalione (120) Postulation (8) Nakamura (5) 2:30.82 gd 3/4

Michael M. Hui Michael J. Maker Julien Leparoux (118) John Velazquez (118)

2019 Bigger Picture (8) Tyler Gaffalione (118) Red Knight (5) Zulu Alpha (6) 2:32.00 yl 1/2 Three Diamonds Farm (Kirk Wycoff) Michael J. Maker Luis Saez (118) Jose Ortiz (120)

2018 One Go All Go (6) Chris Landeros (118) Oscar Nominated (5) Itsinthepost (FR) (6) 2:30.76 fm 3/4 Rodney Paden Charles L. Dickey Joel Rosario (118) Tyler Baze (120)

2017 Itsinthepost (FR)* (5) Tyler Baze (120) Charming Kitten (7) Bigger Picture (6) 2:31.22 yl 1 1/4

Red Baron’s Barn (Jed Cohen) Jeff Mullins Julien Leparoux (118) Jose Ortiz (118)

2016 Da Big Hoss* (5) Florent Geroux (118) Kaigun (6) Royal Albert Hall (GB) (4) 2:31.29 fm 1/2

Skychai Racing Michael J. Maker Joe Bravo (120) Flavien Prat (118) Haggin Course

(Harvey Diamond)

2015 Dramedy (6) Joe Bravo (118) Dynamic Sky (5) Unitarian (5) 2:31.17 gd nk

John James Revocable Trust Gerald Aschinger Julien Leparoux (118) Javier Castellano (118) Haggin Course

2014 Unitarian (4) Javier Castellano (118) War Dancer (4) Temeraine (5) 2:32.60 gd 1 1/4

Robert S. Evans Todd A. Pletcher Alan Garcia (118) Jose Lezcano (118) Haggin Course

2013 Dark Cove (6) Joel Rosario (118) Side Road (4) Sky Blazer (5) 2:30.84 fm 4 1/4

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Michael J. Maker Gary Stevens (118) Rosie Napravnik (118) Haggin Course

2012 Point of Entry (4) John Velazquez (119) Tahoe Lake (BRZ) (6) Simmard (7) 2:29.45 fm 1 1/2

Phipps Stable (O.M. Phipps et al) Claude R. McGaughey III Manoel Cruz (119) Javier Castellano (121) Haggin Course

2011 Musketier (GER)* (9) John Velazquez (118) Pool Play (6) Windward Islands (7) 2:32.04 yl 1 1/4

Stella Perdomo Roger L. Attfield Julien Leparoux (118) Rosie Napravnik (118) Haggin Course

2010 Musketier (GER) (8) John Velazquez (118) Brass Hat (9) Blushing Bear (4) 2:31.32 fm 1 3/4

Johanna Louise Glen-Teven Roger L. Attfield Calvin Borel (118) Shaun Bridgmohan (118) Haggin Course

Elkhorn Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2009 Spice Route (GB) (5) Rene Douglas (118) Musketier (GER) (7) Brass Hat (8) 2:29.23 fm 2

Harlequin Ranches, Ralph Roger L. Attfield Edgar Prado (118) Calvin Borel (118) Haggin Course

Johnson and Roger Attfield

2008 Dancing Forever (5) Rene Douglas (118) Drilling for Oil (5) Brass Hat (7) 2:29.79 fm 1

Phipps Stable (O.M. Phipps et al) Claude R. McGaughey Kent Desormeaux (120) Willie Martinez (118) Haggin Course

2007 Ascertain (IRE) (6) Jamie Theriot (118) Always First (GB) (6) Drilling for Oil (4) 2:30.40 gd nk

Mrs. S.K. Johnston Jr., Niall M. O’Callaghan Garrett Gomez (118) Robby Albarado (118) Haggin Course

Gene Voss and Paul Dixon

2006 Pellegrino (BRZ) (7) Shaun Bridgmohan (118) Go Deputy (6) Silverfoot (6) 2:29.84 fm 3/4

Gary A. Tanaka Roger L. Attfield Garrett Gomez (118) Mark Guidry (118) Haggin Course

2005 Macaw (IRE) (6) Javier Castellano (118) European (IRE) (5) Rochester (9) 2:32.62 yl 2 1/2

George Melillo Angel J. Penna Jr. Brice Blanc (118) Robby Albarado (118) Haggin Course

2004 Epicentre * (5) Jerry Bailey (116) Rochester (8) Art Variety (BRZ) (6) 2:31.96 gd 4 3/4

Juddmonte Farms Robert J. Frankel Cornelio Velasquez (116) Brice Blanc (116) Keeneland Course (Khalid Abdullah)

2003 Kim Loves Bucky (6) Kent Desormeaux (117) Man From Wicklow (6) Williams News (8) 2:29.39 fm 1/2 Kim Glenney John Glenney Jerry Bailey (123) Brice Blanc (116) Haggin Course

2002 Kim Loves Bucky (5) Jorge Chavez (116) Rochester (6) Cetewayo (8) 2:32.49 fm 2

Kim Glenney John Glenney Pat Day (116) Jerry Bailey (118) Haggin Course

2001 Williams News (6) Robby Albarado (116) Gritty Sandie (5) Craigsteel (GB) (6) 2:29.13 fm 1/2

On Target Racing Stable Thomas M. Amoss Corey Nakatani (116) Jose Santos (116) Haggin Course

(R.B. Cerullo & N. Paulus)

2000 Drama Critic (4) Jerry Bailey (116) Craigsteel (GB) (5) Dixie’s Crown (4) 2:28 fm nk

Amerman Racing Stables Mark A. Hennig Jose Santos (116) Mike Smith (116) Haggin Course

(Mr. and Mrs. John Amerman)

1999 African Dancer* (7) Jerry Bailey (114) Magest (4) Chorwon (6) 2:27 4/5 fm 3/4

Pin Oak Stable William I. Mott Jose Santos (114) Pat Day (113) (NCR) (Josephine E. Abercrombie) Haggin Course

1998 African Dancer (6) Jerry Bailey (114) Chief Bearhart (5) Chorwon (5) 2:31 3/5 yl/gd 3/4

Pin Oak Stable William I. Mott Jose Santos (122) Pat Day (114) (Josephine E. Abercrombie) Haggin Course

1997 Chief Bearhart (4) Jose Santos (114) Snake Eyes (7) Lassigny (6) 2:28 2/5 fm 1/2

Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel) Mark R. Frostad Shane Sellers (113) Pat Day (122) Haggin Course

1996 Vladivostok (6) Pat Day (112) Penn Fifty Three (4) Party Season (GB) (5) 2:30 4/5 gd 1 1/2 Bayard Sharp Neil J. Howard Jose Santos (114) Jerry Bailey (119) Haggin Course

1995 Marvin’s Faith (IRE) (4) Craig Perret (123) Hasten To Add (5) Opera Score (4) 1:47 fm no

Marvin Malmuth Ian Jory Pat Day (120) Chris Antley (120) Keeneland Course (NCR)

1994 Lure* (5) Mike Smith (123) Buckhar (6) Pride of Summer (6) 1:53 3/5 yl 4

Claiborne Farm Claude R. McGaughey III Jean Cruguet (120) Mickey Walls (120) Haggin Course

(Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.)

1993 Coaxing Matt (4) Pat Day (118) Cleone (4) Maxigroom (5) 1:47 3/5 fm no

Elmer E. Miller Neil L. Pessin Jerry Bailey (113) Julie Krone (118) Haggin Course

1992 Fourstars Allstar (4) Jerry Bailey (120) Slew the Slewor (5) Rainbows for Life (4) 1:47 3/5 fm nk

Richard Bomze Leo O’Brien Julie Krone (120) Pat Day (120) Haggin Course

1991 Itsallgreektome* (4) Russell Baze (123) Pirate Army (5) Spark O‘Dan (6) 1:51 1/5 gd 3 3/4

Jhayare Stables (Jheri Redding) Wallace Dollase Jerry Bailey (113) Charles Woods Jr. (113)

1990 Ten Keys (6) Randy Romero (123) Yankee Affair (8) Maceo (6) 1:51 4/5 yl 1 1/2

Charles Linhoss Michael Pino Jose Santos (123) Craig Perret (118)

1989 Exclusive Partner (7) Fernando Toro (120) Yankee Affair (7) Pappas Swing (4) 1:50 2/5 yl 3

R.D. Hubbard Richard Mandella Randy Romero (120) Gene St. Leon (120)

1988 Yankee Affair (6) Pat Day (123) Storm On The Loose (5) Blazing Bart (4) 1:49 3/5 fm 2

Ju Ju Jen Stable Henry L. Carroll Julio C. Espinoza (118) Jose Santos (123)

1987 Manila* (4) Jacinto Vasquez (113) Lieutenant’s Lark (5) Royal Treasurer (4) 1:48 2/5 fm 3

Bradley M. Shannon LeRoy Jolley Robbie Davis (112) Sandy Hawley (112) (NCR)

1986 Lieutenant’s Lark (4) Frank Lovato Jr. (113) Leprechauns Wish (4) Majestic Jabot (5) 1:54 3/5 gd 1 1/2

Lowell T. Stevens Howard M. Tesher Keith Allen (115) Earlie Fires (115)

*Winningfavorite.

Runat 11/8mileson theturffrom1986-1995.Runat 11/2mileson theturffrom1996-present.

Listed,1986-1987;Grade3,1988-1989,1996-2007;Grade2,1990-1995,2008-present.

BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnot holda 2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisrace was runduringthe

SummerMeet.

Hagyard Fayette Stakes (G3)

SponsoredbyHagyardEquineMedicalInstitute

69th Running • Fall • 1 1/8 miles • 3-year-olds and up

The Fayette is named for Fayette County, of which Lexington is the county seat. Hagyard Equine Medical Institute of Lexington became the sponsor in 2013. In 2015, the race was run Oct. 30 on the undercard for the first of two days of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland.

Milestones – Fayette Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000 Stakes Record: 1:46 4/5, Good Command, 1987; Grand Jewel, 1993

Largest Straight Payoff: $143.20, Wop Wop, 1985

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.80, Summer Squall, 1991

Largest Field: 14, 1971

Smallest Field: 4, 1988; 1998; 1999; 2002

Largest Value to Winner: $217,000, West Will Power, 2022

Winning Fillies or Mares: Chou Croute, 1972; Old Hat, 1965

Highest Weight Carried by Winner: 126, Hit Show, 2025

Highest Weight Carried by a Starter: 126, Tompion, 196; Hit Show, 2025

for the second consecutive year.

Fayette Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Hit Show (5) Irad Ortiz Jr. (126) Rattle N Roll (6) Gosger (3) 1:50.39 ft 1

Wathnan Racing Brad H. Cox Emmanuel Esquivel (122) Luis Saez (118) (Tameem Binhamad KH H Al-Thani)

2024 Hit Show* (4) Florent Geroux (124) Bolzy (5)

Uno Mas Bourbon (3) 1:50.33 ft 3/4

Wathnan Racing Brad H. Cox Lanfranco Dettori (122) Francisco Arrieta (118) (Tameem Binhamad KH H Al-Thani)

2023 O’Connor (CHI) (6) Tyler Gaffalione (121) Il Miracolo (3) Speed Bias (4) 1:50.61 ft hd

Michael and Julia C. Iavarone Saffie A. Joseph Jr. Luis Saez (118) Ricardo Santana Jr. (121) and Fernando Vine Ode 2022 West Will Power (5) Joel Rosario (121) Fulsome (4) Last Samurai (4) 1:50.68 ft 6 3/4 Gary and Mary West Brad H. Cox Florent Geroux (123) Tyler Gaffalione (123) 2021 Independence Hall (4) Javier Castellano (121) Code of Honor (5) King Fury (3) 1:50.30 sy 7 1/4 Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Michael W. McCarthy Tyler Gaffalione (121) Brian Hernandez Jr. (120) (Aron Wellman), Twin Creeks

Racing Stables (Steven Davison and Randy Gullatt), WinStar Farm (Kenny Troutt) and Kathleen and Robert Verratti

2020 Mr Freeze* (5) Javier Castellano (121) Aurelius Maximus (4) Title Ready (5) 1:50.71 ft nk

Jim Bakke and Gerald Isbister Dale L. Romans Ricardo Santana Jr. (121) Corey Lanerie (121)

2019 Tom’s d’Etat* (6) Joel Rosario (121) Mr Freeze (4) Bal Harbour (4) 1:49.17 sy 4 1/4

G M B Racing (Gayle Benson) Albert M. Stall Jr. Robby Albarado (121) Tyler Gaffalione (121)

2018 Leofric (5) Florent Geroux (121) Prime Attraction (5) Nice Not Nice (4) 1:49.87 my hd

Steve Landers Racing Brad H. Cox Kent Desormeaux (121) Gabriel Saez (121)

2017 The Player (4) Calvin Borel (121) Neolithic (4) McCraken (3) 1:48.16 sy 3

William B. Bradley and Carl Hurst William B. Bradley Robby Albarado (121) Brian Hernandez Jr. (120)

2016 Noble Bird* (5) Julien Leparoux (123) Divining Rod (4) Hawaakom (6) 1:47.75 ft 5 3/4

John C. Oxley Mark E. Casse Florent Geroux (121) Miguel Mena (121) (NTR)

2015 Race Day (4) John Velazquez (123) Hoppertunity (4) Encryption (4) 1:47.90 ft 3/4

Matthew Schera

Todd A. Pletcher Victor Espinoza (123) Paco Lopez (121) (NTR)

2014 Pick of the Litter (4) Corey Lanerie (121) Departing (4) Long River (4) 1:49.48 ft nk

Crossed Sabres Farm Dale L. Romans Robby Albarado (121) Rosie Napravnik (121)

2013 Nikki’s Sandcastle (6) Leandro Goncalves (121) Winning Cause (3) You Know I Know (4) 1:48.13 ft 1 1/4

Richard Sherman David Kassen Joseph Rocco Jr. (118) Eddie Castro (121) Polytrack

2012 Newsdad (4)

Julien Leparoux (123) Nikki’s Sandcastle (5) Take Charge Indy (3) 1:48.24 ft 2

James S. Karp William I. Mott Leandro Goncalves (121) Calvin Borel (122) Polytrack

2011 Wise Dan (4)

Julien Leparoux (119) Ioya Bigtime (4) Workin for Hops (4) 1:48.72 ft 4

Morton Fink Charles LoPresti Calvin Borel (119) James Graham (121) Polytrack

2010 Successful Dan (4)* Julien R. Leparoux (119) Exhi (3) Stately Victor (3) 1:47.09 ft 3

Morton Fink Charles LoPresti Javier Castellano (120) Robby Albarado (122) Polytrack

Fayette Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2009 Blame (3) Jamie Theriot (118) Parading (6) Wicked Style (4) 1:50.54 ft 1 1/4

Adele B. Dilschneider and Albert M. Stall Jr. Kent Desormeaux (123) Robby Albarado (119) Polytrack

Claiborne Farm (Seth W. Hancock)

2008 Ball Four (7) Julio Garcia (119) Dominican (4)

Michael B. Tabor and Derrick Smith Derek Galvin Jesus Castanon (119) Brian Hernandez Jr. (121) Polytrack

2007 Go Between (4) Miguel Mena (121) Stream Cat (4)

Kona Blend (4) 1:47.97 ft nk

Peter Vegso William I. Mott Rene Douglas (121) E.T. Baird (119) Polytrack

2006 Eccentric (GB) (5) Eddie Castro (121) Ball Four (5) Good Reward (5) 1:49.16 ft 3/4

Gary A. Tanaka Roger L. Attfield Willie Martinez (123) Mike Smith (119) Polytrack

2005 Alumni Hall (6) Calvin Borel (121) On Thin Ice (4) M B Sea (6) 1:51.37 ft 1/2

William S. Farish, James A. Neil J. Howard Willie Martinez (119) Corey Lanerie (119)

Elkins Jr., W. Temple Webber Jr.

2004 Midway Road (4) Calvin Borel (121) Total Impact (CHI) (4) Alumni Hall (5) 1:50.39 ft no

William S. Farish Neil J. Howard Craig Perret (125) Larry Melancon (119)

2003 M B Sea (4) Craig Perret (119) Tenpins (5)

dh-Change in the Weather (4) 1:50.30 ft 1

Michael J. Bruder Dale L. Romans Robby Albarado (121) Oliver Castillo (119)

dh-Seattle Fitz (ARG) (4) Calvin Borel (119)

2002 Tenpins* (4) Craig Perret (123) X Country (4) Crafty Shaw (4) 1:51.17 my 1 3/4

Joseph Vitello Donald R. Winfree Jeff Johnston (119) James Lopez (121)

2001 Connected (4) Marlon St. Julien (119) Broken Vow (4)

(3)

Helen Alexander David M. Carroll Ramon Dominquez (123) Lonnie Meche (122)

and Helen Groves Revocable Trust

2000 Jadada (5) Shane Sellers (118) Mojave Moon (4) Get Away With It (IRE) (7) 1:54 4/5 ft 1 1/2 Sterling Stud Mitch Shirota Alex Solis (118) Richard Migliore (118)

(Andrena and Paul Van Doren)

1999 Social Charter* (4) Marlon St. Julien (120) Master O Foxhounds (4) Early Warning (4) 1:55 1/5 sy 2

Stonerside Stable Patrick B. Byrne Mike Smith (118) Garrett Gomez (118)

(Janice and Robert McNair)

and Robert E. Sangster

1998 Arch (3) Shane Sellers (123) Touch Gold (4) Wild Tempest (4) 1:53 4/5 ft nk

Claiborne Farm (Mrs. A.B. Hancock) Frank Brothers Pat Day (115) Robby Albarado (115) (NTR)

and Adele Dilschneider

1997 Whiskey Wisdom (4) Willie Martinez (115) City by Night (4) Pyramid Peak (5) 1:48 3/5 ft 12 Kinghaven Farms (David S. Willmot) Roger L. Attfield Shane Sellers (123) Pat Day (120)

1996 Isitingood (5) David Flores (120) Distorted Humor (3) Strawberry Wine (4) 1:50 2/5 ft hd

Mike Pegram and Terry Henn Bob A. Baffert Craig Perret (114) Willie Martinez (117)

1995 Judge T C* (4) Joe Johnson (114) Powerful Punch (6) Sir Vixen (7) 1:49 ft 3

Bea and Robert H. Roberts Gary G. Hartlage Curt Bourque (120) Dean Kutz (114)

1994 Sunny Sunrise (7) Jeff Carle (120) Key Contender (6) Powerful Punch (5) 1:50 ft 1 1/4

Harry Meyerhoff Grover G. Delp James Bruin (117) Curt Bourque (117)

1993 Grand Jewel (3) Jerry Bailey (120) Split Run (5) Secreto’s Hideaway (4) 1:46 4/5 ft 1 1/4

William S. Farish and Neil J. Howard Earlie Fires (120) Willie Martinez (114) (ETR)

William S. Kilroy

1992 Barkerville* (4) Shane Sellers (114) Medium Cool (4) Majesterian (4) 1:48 2/5 ft 1

Darley Stud Management Frank L. Brothers Charles Woods Jr. (117) Robbie Davis (114)

(Mohammed Al Maktoum)

1991 Summer Squall* (4) Pat Day (122) = Unbridled (4)

Secret Hello (4) 1:48 4/5 ft 3

Dogwood Stable Neil J. Howard Craig Perret (122) James Bruin (115)

(W. Cothran Campbell)

1990 Lac Ouimet (7)

Randy Romero (119) Din’s Dancer (5)

Secret Hello (3) 1:47 1/5 ft hd

Virginia Kraft Payson Thomas J. Skiffington R.D. Williams (121) Pat Day (116)

1989 Drapeau Tricolore (4) James Bruin (114) Air Worthy (4) Blue Buckaroo (6) 1:48 1/5 ft 3

Wildenstein Stable D. Wayne Lukas Daniel Soto (116) Steve Bass (118)

(Daniel Wildenstein)

1988 Homebuilder* (4) Don Brumfield (121)= Blue Buckaroo (5) Ile de Jinsky (4) 1:51 1/5 gd. 1 1/4

Ryehill Farm Woodford C. Stephens Pat Day (120)

Eugene Sipus Jr. (112)

1987 Good Command* (4) Don Brumfield (118) Minneapple (5) Savings (4) 1:46 4/5 ft 2 3/4

Prestonwood Farm Inc. Gary Jones Daryl Montoya (120) Larry Melancon (115) (NTR)

1986 Harham’s Sizzler (7) Randall Meier (120) Derby Wish (4) Pirate’s Skiff (3) 1:49 1/5 ft nk

Harold Florsheim Lou M. Goldfine Larry Melancon (119) Keith Allen (112)

1985 Wop Wop (3) Darrell Foster (112) Banner Bob (3) Exclusive Greer (4) 1:51 2/5 fm 2 1/2

A.C. Hiler Jr. John T. Ward Jr. Keith Allen (117) Dana Zook (114) (NCR)

1984 Star Choice (5) Jim McKnight (112) Explosive Wagon (4) Bright Baron (4) 1:47 2/5 ft 1

Frances A. Genter Stable Carl Nafzger Ronald Ardoin (117) Gerland Gallitano (113) (ETR)

Fayette Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1983 dh-Frost King (5)/Cad (5) Robin Platts (123) =/Don Brumfield (116)

Ted Smith and Bill Marko/ Bill Marko/David Kassen

Double Eagle Stable

1982 Rivalero (6)

Randy Romero (115) Cad (4)

Bold Style (4) 1:48 4/5 ft 2

Keith Allen (120)

Recusant (4) 1:50 2/5 sy 2 (1st) Calumet Farm

1982 El Baba* (3)

Frank Y. Whiteley Jr. Don Brumfield (113) Pat Day (120)

Don Brumfield (118) Vodika Collins (4) Hechizado (ARG) (6) 1:50 1/5 sy 3 1/4 (2nd) Mrs. Joe W. Brown Dewey Smith Gerland Gallitano (120) Randy Romero (115)

1981 Ironworks (3) Pat Day (117) Two’s a Plenty (4) Sun Catcher (4) 1:49 1/5 ft hd

Dixiana

Charles R. Werstler Walter Guerra (116) Joseph Imparato (118)

1980 Hurry Up Blue (3) Gerland Gallitano (112) Marcy Road (3) All the More (7) 1:49 ft 1 3/4

R.L. Reineman Stable Joseph M. Bollero Julio C. Espinoza (108) Craig Perret (116)

1979 Architect (3)

Stanley Spencer (117) Coverack (6) Trimlea (5) 1:49 3/5 ft 7

Carl Lauer Harvey Vanier Don Brumfield (121) Jean-Luc Samyn (120)

1978 Silver Series (4) Don Brumfield (121)= dq-Buckfinder (4) Romeo (5) 1:41 1/5 ft hd

Pillar Farm

1977 Bob’s Dusty* (3)

Peter M. Howe Jacinto Vasquez (121) Earlie Fires (118) (ETR) Buckfinderdisqualifiedfromfirstandplacedsecond.

Richard DePass (117) Man’s Man (3) Packer Captain (5) 1:42 4/5 ft 3/4

Robert N. Lehmann William E. Adams Robert Woodhouse (115) Don Brumfield (118)

1976 Silver Badge (5)

Garth Patterson (111) Easy Gallop (3) Topinabee (5) 1:44 3/5 ft 1 1/2 (1st) C.V. Whitney

1976 Yamanin* (4)

George T. Poole Don Brumfield (117) Darrell Brown (112)

Garth Patterson (114) Run for Clem (3) Faneuil Boy (5) 1:43 1/5 ft 5 1/2 (2nd) Hajima Doi George T. Poole Bryan Fann (111) Larry Melancon (118)

1975 Warbucks* (5) Jimmy Nichols (120)= Hasty Flyer (4) Mr. Door (4) 1:44 2/5 ft no

E.E. Elzemeyer Don Combs Heriberto Arroyo (119) Eddie Delahoussaye (114)

1974 Jesta Dream Away (4) Anthony Rini (115) Super Sail (6) Joyous Jester (4) 1:41 3/5 ft no

G.A. Zimmerman and E.J. Zwiesler James E. Morgan Robert Breen (121) Gene Solomon (112)

1973 Chateauvira (5) Gerland Gallitano (112) Grocery List (4) O So Big (4) 1:42 4/5 ft 3

William S. Farish Del W. Carroll Al Ramos (116) J.G. Alleman (115)

1972 f-Chou Croute* (4) John L. Rotz (123)= Sensitive Music (3) Chateauvira (4) 1:44 ft nk

E.V. Benjamin III et al Bob G. Dunham Jimmy Nichols (117) Eldon Nelson (114)

1971 Royal Harmony* (7) David Whited (119) New Round (3) Mariuco (5) 1:42 3/5 ft 3/4

T.F. Devereux Pat B. Devereux Garth Patterson (112) Danny Gargan (111)

1970 Royal Harmony (6) Earl J. Knapp (118) Dust Commander (4) dq-Fast Hilarious (4) 1:42 4/5 ft nk

T.F. Devereux Pat B. Devereux Don Brumfield (113) Earlie Fires (122) FastHilariousdisqualifiedfromsecondandplacedthird.

1969 Royal Harmony (5) Mickey Solomone (117) Otomano II (4) Miracle Hill (5) 1:42 3/5 ft 1 3/4

T.F. Devereux Pat B. Devereux Pete Anderson (115) David Whited (116)

1968 Yorkville (4)

David Whited (119)= War Censor (5) Monitor (4) 1:42 ft 1 1/4

E.J. Grosfield John M. Hart Earlie Fires (115) Carlos H. Marquez (114)

1967 Swoonaway (6) Billy Phelps (119)= Hy Frost (4) Miracle Hill (3) 1:42 3/5 ft 2

E. Gay Drake S. Bryant Ott Tommy Barrow (116) David Whited (115)

1966 Yumbel (5) Hector Pilar (113) Road Hog (3) Come On II (5) 1:43 3/5 ft 1 3/4

Walnut Hill Farm Albert Filocomo Jerry Noble (109) Laffit Pincay Jr. (117)

1965 m-Old Hat* (6) Robert Gallimore (119) Lt. Stevens (4) Big Brigade (4) 1:42 4/5 ft nk Stanley Conrad C.C. Norman Tommy Barrow (122) Billy Phelps (116)

1964 Swoonen (4)

Kenny Knapp (113) City Line (4) Lemon Twist (4) 1:42 ft nk

J. Graham Brown Willard L. Proctor R.L. Baird (119) Jimmy Nichols (116)

1963 Choker (3) Ken Church (114) Port of Mecca (4) Jet Clipper (4) 1:41 2/5 ft 2 1/2

Louis Lee Haggin II Joe Kramer R. J. Gonzalez (115) Mitch Shirota (114) (ETR)

1962 Blue Croon (4) Norman Cox (117) Gushing Wind (3) Loyal Son (4) 1:48 4/5 ft 3/4

W.R. Henderson Doug Davis Jr. R.L. Baird (122) C. Roberts (119)

1961 Zumbador II (4) Ray Broussard (116) Bluescope (3) Tompion (4) 1:47 3/5 ft no

Bruno Ferrari Leo Sierra William Hartack (118) Mike Sorrentino (126)

1960 Little Fitz* (5) W.A. Peake (117) Toby’s Brother (3) Better Bee (6) 1:49 3/5 ft 1

J.C. Hauer R.C. Steele William M. Cook (108) Herb Hinojosa (118)

1959 Terra Firma* (4) Ken Church (123)= Hymient (4) Dru Away (7) 1:51 2/5 sy 5

H.E. Olson and R.D. Prewitt R.D. Prewitt Jack Chestnut (119) Ralph Borgemenke (123)

*Winningfavorite.dh-deadheat.=-TopWeight. f-filly. m-mare.

Runat 11/8milesfrom1959-1962and1979-present. Runat 11/16milesfrom1963-1978. Runon theturf,1985.

Grade3,1979-1986and1997-2008;Grade2,1987-1996,2009-2024.Grade3,2025-present.

RunonPolytrackfrom2006-2013.

First Lady Stakes (G1)

29th Running • Fall • 1 mile (turf) • 3-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

This stakes was inaugurated in the fall of 1998 as the First Lady and was called the Galaxy Stakes from 2000-2005. It returned to its original name in 2006.

Milestones – First Lady Stakes

2025 Purse: $800,000

Stakes Record: 1:32.87, Uni (GB), 2019

Largest Straight Payoff: $61.40, Photo Call (IRE), 2016

Smallest Straight Payoff: $3.60, Intercontinental (GB), 2005; Gorella (FR), 2006

Largest Field: 13, 2019

Smallest Field: 5, 2020

Largest Value to Winner: $458,800, Simply in Front, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Amerman Racing Stables (Mr. and Mrs. John Amerman) – Happyanunoit (NZ), 1999

Aron, Robert and Janice – Spook Express (SAF), 2001

Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.) –Forever Together, 2008

Brant, Peter M. – Blowout (GB), 2021; In Italian (GB), 2022; Gina Romantica, 2023; Gina Romantica, 2024

Colebrook Farms (John Brnjas) –Simply in Front, 2025

Dubb, Michael, Head of Plains Partners (Sol Kumin), Robert V. LaPenta and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso) –Uni (GB), 2020

Owners – First Lady Stakes

Dubb, Michael, Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone) and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso) –

A Raving Beauty (GER), 2018

Empyrean Stables – Zipessa, 2017

Frankel, Jerry, Ronald Frankel, Steve Laymon and Bradley Thoroughbreds –Dayatthespa, 2014

Godolphin Racing – Better Lucky, 2013

Grimm, Leslie R. – Witchful Thinking, 1998

Hancock III, Arthur B. – Owsley, 2002

IEAH Stables (Michael A. Iavarone) –Diamondrella (GB), 2009

Jones Jr., Frank L. – Tapitsfly, 2012

Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah) –Intercontinental (GB), 2005; Proviso (GB), 2010

Trainers – First Lady Stakes

and

Kelly, Sarah and Jon – Vacare, 2007

LaPenta, Robert V., Michael Dubb, Head of Plains Partners (Sol Kumin) and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso) – Uni (GB), 2019

Masterson, Robert E. – Tepin, 2015

Richter, Kristine and John – Bien Nicole, 2003

Santa Cruz Ranch Inc. (Juan Rizo) –Stay Forever, 2004

Schwartz, Martin S. – Gorella (FR), 2006

Stonerside Stable (Robert and Janice McNair) – Tout Charmant, 2000

Team Block (David, Patricia and Ryan Block) – Never Retreat, 2011

Teresa Viola Racing Stables –Photo Call (IRE), 2016

Albertrani, Thomas – Better Lucky, 2013 Biancone, Patrick – Gorella (FR), 2006 Block, Chris M. – Never Retreat, 2011

Brown, Chad C. – Dayatthespa, 2014; A Raving Beauty (GER) 2018; Uni (GB), 2019; Uni (GB), 2020; Blowout (GB), 2021; In Italian (GB), 2022; Gina Romantica, 2023; Gina Romantica, 2024

Casse, Mark E. – Tepin, 2015

Bailey, Jerry – Intercontinental (GB),2005

Blanc, Brice – Happyanunoit (NZ), 1999

Bravo, Joe – Zipessa, 2017

Castro, Eddie – Stay Forever, 2004

Curtis, Ben – Simply in Front, 2025

Desormeaux, Kent – Photo Call (IRE), 2016

Gaffalione, Tyler – Gina Romantica, 2023

Leparoux, Julien – Gorella (FR), 2006; Forever Together, 2008; Never Retreat, 2011; Better Lucky, 2013; Tepin, 2015

Clement, Christophe – Vacare, 2007

Frankel, Robert J. – Happyanunoit (NZ), 1999; Intercontinental (GB), 2005

Kenneally, Eddie – Simply in Front, 2025

McAnally, Ronald – Tout Charmant, 2000

Mott, William I. – Proviso (GB), 2010

O’Callaghan, Niall M. – Witchful Thinking, 1998

Penna Jr., Angel J. – Diamondrella (GB), 2009

Pletcher, Todd A. – Photo Call (IRE), 2016

Jockeys – First Lady Stakes

Lezcano, Jose – Tapitsfly, 2012

Maragh, Rajiv – Diamondrella (GB), 2009

McCarron, Chris – Witchful Thinking, 1998; Tout Charmant, 2000

Nakatani, Corey – Vacare, 2007

Ortiz, Jose L. – Gina Romantica, 2024

Pettinger, Donald – Bien Nicole, 2003

Prado, Edgar – Owsley, 2002

Romans, Dale L. – Tapitsfly, 2012

Schulhofer, Randy – Owsley, 2002

Sheppard, Jonathan E. – Forever Together, 2008

Skiffington, Thomas J. – Spook Express (SAF), 2001

Stidham, Michael H. – Zipessa, 2017

Von Hemel, Donnie K. – Bien Nicole, 2003

Wolfson, Martin D. – Stay Forever, 2004

Prat, Flavien – Blowout (GB), 2021

Rosario, Joel – Uni (GB), 2019; Uni (GB), 2020; In Italian (GB), 2022

Smith, Mike – Spook Express (SAF), 2001; Proviso (GB), 2010

Velazquez, John – Dayatthespa, 2014; A Raving Beauty (GER), 2018

First Lady Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Simply in Front (4) Ben Curtis (125) Segesta (4) Choisya (GB) (5) 1:34.76 fm nk Colebrook Farms (John Brnjas) Eddie Kenneally Flavien Prat (125) Lanfranco Dettori (125)

2024 Gina Romantica (5) Jose L. Ortiz (125) Chili Flag (FR) (5) Fluffy Socks (6) 1:33.80 fm 2

Peter M. Brant Chad C. Brown Tyler Gaffalione (125) Lanfranco Dettori (125) 2023 Gina Romantica (4) Tyler Gaffalione (124) In Italian (GB) (5) Evvie Jets (5) 1:33.70 fm hd

Peter M. Brant

Chad C. Brown Joel Rosario (124) Jose Ortiz (124) 2022 In Italian (GB) (4) Joel Rosario (124) Regal Glory (6) Princess Grace (5) 1:33.22 fm 1

Peter M. Brant

Chad C. Brown Jose Ortiz (124) Florent Geroux (124) 2021 Blowout (GB) (5) Flavian Prat (124) Regal Glory (5) Empress Josephine (IRE) (3) 1:34.86 gd 1/2

Peter M. Brant

Chad C. Brown Jose Ortiz (124) John Velazquez (121) 2020 Uni (GB) (6)

Joel Rosario (124) Beau Recall (IRE) (6) Newspaperofrecord (IRE) (4) 1:34.90 fm 1

Michael Dubb, Head of Plains Chad C. Brown Julien Leparoux (124) Tyler Gaffalione (124) Partners (Sol Kumin), Robert V. LaPenta and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso) 2019 Uni (GB) (5)

Joel Rosario (124) Juliet Foxtrot (GB) (4) Vasilika (5) 1:32.87 fm 2 1/2

Robert V. LaPenta, Michael Dubb, Chad C. Brown Florent Geroux (124) Flavien Prat (124) (NCR) Head of Plains Partners (Sol Kumin)

and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso)

2018 A Raving Beauty (GER) (5) John Velazquez (124) Dona Bruja (ARG) (6) Indian Blessing (GB) (4) 1:37.78 gd hd

Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables Chad C. Brown Declan Cannon (124) Feargal Lynch (124) (Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone)

and Bethlehem Stables (Michael J. Caruso)

2017 Zipessa (5)* Joe Bravo (124) Hawksmoor (IRE) (4) Roca Rojo (IRE) (5) 1:36.99 fm 1 1/2

Empyrean Stables Michael Stidham Julien Leparoux (124) Javier Castellano (124)

2016 Photo Call (IRE) (5)* Kent Desormeaux (124) Tepin (5) Celestine (4) 1:35.62 fm 2 3/4

Teresa Viola Racing Stables Todd A. Pletcher Julien Leparoux (124) Junior Alvarado (124) Haggin Course (Teresa Viola)

2015 Tepin (4)* Julien Leparoux (124) Crowley’s Law (GB) (4) My Miss Sophia (4) 1:37.04 sf 7

Robert E. Masterson Mark E. Casse Victor Espinoza (124) Jose Lezcano (124) Haggin Course

2014 Dayatthespa (5) John Velazquez (124) Better Lucky (5) Filimbi (4) 1:35.21 gd 1 1/4

Jerry Frankel, Ronald Frankel, Steve Chad C. Brown Mike Smith (124) Joel Rosario (124) Haggin Course Laymon and Bradley Thoroughbreds

2013 Better Lucky (4) Julien Leparoux (124) Dayatthespa (4) Daisy Devine (5) 1:39.78 yl hd Godolphin Racing Thomas Albertrani John Velazquez (124) James Graham (124) Haggin Course

2012 Tapitsfly (5) Jose Lezcano (124) Daisy Devine (4) Hungry Island (4) 1:35.44 fm 1/2

Frank L. Jones Jr. Dale L. Romans James Graham (124) Julien Leparoux (124) Haggin Course

2011 Never Retreat (6) Julien Leparoux (124) Together (IRE) (3) Daveron (GER) (6) 1:34.08 fm 1 1/2

Team Block (David, Patricia Chris M. Block Colm O’Donoghue (121) Eddie Castro (124) Haggin Course and Ryan Block)

2010 Proviso (GB) (5)* Mike Smith (124) C.S. Silk (4) Gotta Have Her (6) 1:34.81 fm 1/2

Juddmonte Farms William I. Mott Kent Desormeaux (124) Garrett Gomez (124) Haggin Course (Khalid Abdullah)

2009 Diamondrella (GB) (5) Rajiv Maragh (123) Tizaqueena (4) Forever Together (5) 1:38.66 sf 3/4 IEAH Stables Angel J. Penna Jr. Jamie Theriot (123) Julien Leparoux (123) Haggin Course (Michael A. Iavarone)

2008 Forever Together (4) Julien Leparoux (123) Precious Kitten (5) Rutherienne (4) 1:35.00 fm 1 1/2 Augustin Stable Jonathan E. Sheppard Rafael Bejarano (123) Garrett Gomez (123) Haggin Course (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2007 Vacare (4) Corey Nakatani (121) Precious Kitten (4) Quite a Bride (4) 1:35.85 fm 1/2

Sarah and Jon Kelly Christophe Clement Rafael Bejarano (125) Robby Albarado (121) Haggin Course

2006 Gorella (FR)* (4) Julien Leparoux (125) Karen’s Caper (4) My Typhoon (IRE) (4) 1:34.14 fm no Martin S. Schwartz Patrick Biancone Edgar Prado (121) Garrett Gomez (123) Haggin Course Run as the Galaxy 2000-2005.

2005 Intercontinental (GB)* (5) Jerry Bailey (123) Wend (4) Katdogawn (GB) (5) 1:37.40 fm 3/4 Juddmonte Farms Robert J. Frankel John Velazquez (123) Robby Albarado (121) Haggin Course (Khalid Abdullah)

2004 Stay Forever (7) Eddie Castro (121) Super Brand (SAF) (5) Shaconage (4) 1:57.08 fm 1/2

Santa Cruz Ranch Inc. (Juan Rizo) Martin D. Wolfson Pat Day (119) Rafael Bejarano (121) Haggin Course

2003 Bien Nicole* (5) Donald Pettinger (121) Approach (GB) (3) New Economy (5) 1:55.87 fm 7 1/4

Kristine and John Richter Donnie K. Von Hemel Jerry Bailey (116) Rene Douglas (121) Haggin Course

2002 Owsley (4) Edgar Prado (122) Snow Dance (4) Surya (4) 1:56.72 yl 1 1/4

Arthur B. Hancock III Randy Schulhofer Craig Perret (120) Jerry Bailey (118) Haggin Course

2001 Spook Express (SAF) (7) Mike Smith (120) Solvig (4) Veil of Avalon (4) 1:54.24 fm 1 1/4

Robert and Janice Aron Thomas J. Skiffington Pat Day (118) Edgar Prado (118) Haggin Course

2000 Tout Charmant (4) Chris McCarron (117) Perfect Sting (4) License Fee (5) 1:54 3/5 fm 1 1/4 Stonerside Stable Ronald McAnally Jerry Bailey (121) Pat Day (119) Haggin Course (Robert and Janice McNair)

1999 Happyanunoit (NZ) (4) Brice Blanc (119) Pleasant Temper (5) Fiji (GB) (5) 1:53 4/5 fm 4 Amerman Racing Stables Robert J. Frankel Pat Day (119) Jerry Bailey (117) Haggin Course

(Mr. and Mrs. John Amerman) (NCR) 1998 Witchful Thinking (4) Chris McCarron (115) Memories of Silver (5) Starry Dreamer (4) 1:54 1/5 fm 1

Leslie R. Grimm Niall M. O’Callaghan Jerry Bailey (120) Shane Sellers (115) Haggin Course

*Winningfavorite.

Listed,1998-1999;Grade3,2000;Grade2,2001-2007;Grade1,2008-present.

Franklin Stakes (G2)

30th Running • Fall •

5

1/2 furlongs (turf) • 3-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

This stakes is named for Franklin County of Central Kentucky, whose county seat is the state capital of Frankfort.

Milestones – Franklin Stakes

2025 Purse: $400,000

Stakes Record: 1:01.47, Future Is Now, 2024

Largest Straight Payoff: $68.20, Mimi’s Bling, 2010

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.80, Confessional, 2001

Largest Field: 13, 2018

Smallest Field: 7, 1997; 1998 (1st div.); 2025

Largest Value to Winner: $241,800, Time to Dazzle, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Franklin Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Time to Dazzle (4) Jose Ortiz (121) In Our

Tracy Farmer Mark E. Casse Luis Saez (121)

2024 Future Is Now (4) Paco Lopez (125) Star of Mystery (3) Stone Silent (4) 1:01.47 fm 3/4

R. Larry Johnson Michael J. Trombetta Flavien Prat (122) Junior Alvarado (121) Pandora’sGift(IRE)disqualifiedfromthirdtounplaced.

2023 Tony Ann (5) Flavien Prat (120) Caravel (6) Train to Artemus (5) 1:02.42 gd nk

Anthony Fanticola and A Venneri Philip D’Amato Tyler Gaffalione (124) Gerardo Corrales (120)

Racing (Alex Venneri)

2022 Caravel* (5) Tyler Gaffalione (122) Thundering Creed (4) Star Devine (IRE) (4) 1:02.59 fm 1 3/4 Qatar Racing (David Redvers), Brad H. Cox Joseph Rocco Jr. (122) Adam Beschizza (120) Marc Detampel and Madaket

Stables (Sol Kumin)

2021 Change of Control (5) Colby Hernandez (122) Ambassador Luna (5) Campanelle (IRE) (3) 1:05.89 sf 1 1/2 Perry Harrison Michelle R. Lovell James Graham (120) Joel Rosario (122)

2020 Got Stormy* (5) Tyler Gaffalione (124) Into Mystic (4) Jakarta (5) 1:02.33 gd no Gary Barber Mark E. Casse Joseph Talamo (120) Javier Castellano (120)

2019 Oleksandra (AUS)* (5) Joel Rosario (120) Morticia (5) Girls Know Best (5) 1:01.79 fm 2 Team Valor International Neil D. Drysdale Tyler Gaffalione (124) Corey Lanerie (120)

(Barry Irwin)

2018 Chanteline (6) Ricardo Santana Jr. (120) Belvoir Bay (GB) (5) Morticia (4) 1:02.89 fm 3/4

Ten Broeck Farm (David Mowat) Steven M. Asmussen Flavien Prat (122) Jose Lezcano (120)

2017 Morticia (3) Jose Lezcano (118) Justa Lady (4) Lull (3) 1:03.92 fm 1/2

G. Watts Humphrey Jr. George R. Arnold II Ricardo Santana Jr. (120) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118)

2016 Miss Ella (4) Joel Rosario (120) Fair Point (4) Smoke Signals (4) 1:04.52 fm nk

Jack Swain III H. Graham Motion Jose Ortiz (120) James Graham (120) Keeneland Course

2015 Ageless (6) Julien Leparoux (124) Lady Shipman (3) Free as a Bird (6) 1:03.66 fm hd

Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour Eduardo Nunez (122) Joe Bravo (120) Keeneland Course

2014 Free as a Bird (5) Joel Rosario (122) Ageless (5) Sweet Cassiopeia (6) 1:03.60 yl 1 1/2

Elizabeth J. Valando Ian Wilkes Julien Leparoux (124) Joseph Rocco Jr. (120) Haggin Course

2013 Queen’s Award (6) Kent Desormeaux (120) Madame Giry (4) Sweet Cassiopeia (5) 1:03.12 fm 1/2

Coudelaria Jessica Inc. Eduardo Caramori Eddie Castro (122) Joseph Rocco Jr. (120) Keeneland Course

2012 Madame Giry (3) Eddie Castro (120) Bounding Bi (5) Sensible Lady (3) 1:03.12

Nutmeg Stable Cam Gambolati James Graham (120) Xavier Perez (120) Keeneland Course

2011 Wild About Marie (4) Robby Albarado (118) Supreme (4) You Need Me (4) 1:03.01 fm 2

Dawn and Ike Thrash Jeffrey D. Thornbury Luis Garcia (118) Gabriel Saez (120) Keeneland Course

2010 Mimi’s Bling (3) Julien Leparoux (116) Canadian Ballet (5) West Ocean (4) 1:03.48 fm 1/2

Eddie Kenneally and Eddie Kenneally Kent Desormeaux (120) John R. Velazquez (122) Haggin Course

Peter Kirwin

2009 Dubai Majesty* (4) Jamie Theriot (120) Libor Lady (4) Nadeshiko (4) 1:03.64 sf 1 1/4

Martin Racing Stable W. Bret Calhoun Robby Albarado (120) Miguel Mena (120) Keeneland Course

(William and Stephanie Martin)

and Dan Morgan

Franklin Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2008 Sly Storm (3)

Jamie Theriot (118)

dh-Taletobetold (4)/Adhsilver (3) 1:03.60 fm nk

Glen Hill Farm (Leonard H. Lavin) Thomas F. Proctor Julien Leparoux (118)/Brian Hernandez Jr. (116) Haggin Course

2007 Stylish Wildcat (4) Garrett Gomez (118) Taletobetold (3) Adore You (5) 1:03.71 fm nk

CRK Stable (Susan Searing) John W. Sadler Julien Leparoux (118) Miguel Mena (118) Haggin Course

2006 Society Hostess* (4) Garrett Gomez (118) Bright Gold (6) Gilded Gold (5) 1:09.59 ft 2

Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd. Christophe Clement Horacio Karamanos (120) Rafael Bejarano (122) Off Turf

(Walter Haefner)

2005 Bright Gold (5) Horacio Karamanos (124) Tara’s Touch (SAF) (6) Mocha Queen (4) 1:02.53 fm 2

Hazel B. Marsh Mary Eppler Mike Smith (124) Brice Blanc (118) Keeneland Course

Runas theClarkCountyStakes2003-2004.

2004 Dyna Da Wyna* (4) Pat Day (124) Speedy Sonata (3) Black Escort (3) 1:03.32 gd 2 1/2

WinStar Farm W. Elliott Walden Willie Martinez (118) Mark Guidry (116) Keeneland Course (Bill Casner et al)

2003 On the Fritz (5) Robby Albarado (118) Brown Eyed Beauty (4) Paige’s Boo (6) 1:02.92 fm hd

Woodlynn Farm (Bob Hoeweler) James E. Baker Calvin Borel (120) Mark Guidry (118) Keeneland Course

Runas theA.P.IndyStakes1997-2002.

2002 Dixie Tactics (4) Edgar Prado (118) Presumed Innocent (5) Fuse It (4) 1:03.47 fm 1 3/4

Don Eberts Morris Nicks Daniel Coa (118) Rene Douglas (118) Haggin Course

2001 Confessional* (5) Ramon Dominguez (124) Thunder Sands (3) Charm (4) 1:04.06 gd 3 1/2

Pin Oak Stable H. Graham Motion Tammy Fox (116) Jon Court (118) Haggin Course (Josephine Abercrombie)

2000 Chris’s Thunder (5) Pat Day (123) Steal a Heart (5) Atlantic Destiny (IRE) (4) 1:01 3/5 fm 2 1/4

Michael Schwartz Kelly Broussard Robby Albarado (123) Rick Wilson (123) Haggin Course (NCR)

1999 Ayrial Delight (7) Marlon St. Julien (123) Liable (4) Horsemint (4) 1:03 2/5 yl hd

Dwight M. Mentzer R. James Taylor Robby Albarado (121) Brian Peck (117) Haggin Course

1998 Ayrial Delight* (6) Randy Romero (123) More Silver (4) Miswaki Girl (3) 1:03 4/5 fm no (1st) Dwight M. Mentzer R. James Taylor Shane Sellers (115) Willie Martinez (113) Haggin Course

1998 Song of Africa* (5) Pat Day (115) Tigresa (6) Danyross (IRE) (3) 1:03 2/5 fm 2 (2nd) Ron Magers John C. Kimmel Tracy Hebert (115) Brian Peck (113) Haggin Course

1997 Affair With Aflair (3) Willie Martinez (113) First Fling (3) Your Moon (5) 1:04 1/5 fm 5 1/2 (1st) Simi Stable (Peter Bradley) Richard J. Lundy Pat Day (113) Dean Kutz (115) Haggin Course

1997 Mariuka (4) Donna Barton (115) Ultimate Strike (5) Sweet Claire Bear (4) 1:04 4/5 fm nk (2nd) Calumet Farm Charles LoPresti Pat Day (115) Juvenal Diaz (123) Haggin Course (Henryk de Kwiatkowski)

*Winningfavorite.

Grade3,2016-2022;Grade2,2023-present.

In2006,therace was run at 6furlongson themaintrack.

Giant’s Causeway Stakes (G2)

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29th Running • Spring • 5 1/2 furlongs (turf) • 3-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

The Giant’s Causeway is named for the American-bred, European champion racehorse who became a successful stallion at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud located not far from Keeneland.

Milestones – Giant’s Causeway Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000

Stakes Record: 1:01.74, Twilight Gleaming (IRE), 2023

Largest Straight Payoff: $29, Katie’s Eyes, 2015

Smallest Straight Payoff: $4, West Ocean, 2010; Lady Aurelia, 2017

Largest Field: 13, 2022

Smallest Field: 7, 1999; 2010; 2021

Largest Value to Winner: $147,250, Future Is Now, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Winner of Keeneland’s Franklin (G3) during the 2024 Fall Meet in her final race of the year, Future Is Now nosed out Pandora’s Gift (IRE) to prevail in the Giant’s Causeway (G3) in her 2025 debut.

Giant’s Causeway Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Future Is Now (5) Paco Lopez (124) Pandora’s Gift (IRE) (4)

The Estate of R. Larry Johnson Michael J. Trombetta Irad Ortiz Jr. (122) Joel Rosario (122) (Tracy Mulroy and Kelly Caraballo)

2024 Roses for Debra* (5) Irad Ortiz Jr. (124) Love Reigns (IRE) (4)

Cheyenne Stable (Everett Dobson) Christophe Clement Joel Rosario (122) Luis Saez (122) and John O’Meara

2023 Twilight Gleaming (IRE)* (4) Irad Ortiz Jr. (122) Querobin Dourada (4) Star Devine (IRE) (5) 1:01.74 fm 1 1/2

Stonestreet Stables Wesley A. Ward Joseph Talamo (122) Jose Ortiz (122) (Barbara Banke)

2022 Campanelle (IRE)* (4) Irad Ortiz Jr. (122) Star Devine (IRE) (4) Goin’ Good (4) 1:01.98 gd 2 1/2 Stonestreet Stables Wesley A. Ward John Velazquez (122) Tyler Gaffalione (122) (Barbara Banke)

2021 Change of Control (5) Colby Hernandez (122) Into Mystic (5) Jakarta (6) 1:04.48 yl 1

Horseshoe Racing (Perry Harrison) Michelle R. Lovell Irad Ortiz Jr. (124) Luis Saez (124)

2020 Not run

2019 Morticia* (5) Irad Ortiz Jr. (121) Excessivespending (5) Surrender Now (4) 1:03.18 fm nk

G. Watts Humphrey Jr. George R. Arnold II Julien Leparoux (121) John Velazquez (121)

2018 Triple Chelsea (5) Adam Beschizza (120) Lady Aurelia (4) Morticia (4) 1:02.40 fm 1 1/2

Brad Grady Joe Sharp John Velazquez (120) Jose Lezcano (125)

2017 Lady Aurelia* (3) John Velazquez (117) Nobody’s Fault (4) Ruby Notion (4) 1:02.40 fm 2 1/2

Stonestreet Stables (Barbara Wesley A. Ward Jose Valdivia Jr. (120) Joel Rosario (120) Banke), George Bolton and Peter Leidel

2016 Exaggerated (4) Julien Leparoux (118) Cactus Kris (5) Miss Double d’Oro (4) 1:02.81 fm 1 1/2

Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour Mathieu Adam (118) Jose Lezcano (118) Haggin Course

2015 Katie’s Eyes (4) Florent Geroux (120) Ageless (6) Runway Ready (5) 1:02.78 gd 2 1/2

Ike Thrash, Dawn Thrash, Michael Stidham Julien Leparoux (123) Javier Castellano (118) Haggin Course Janet Alley and Sam Alley

2014 Ageless (5) Julien Leparoux (118) Free as a Bird (5) Sweet Cassiopeia (6) 1:03.18 fm 3/4

Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour Joel Rosario (118) Joseph Rocco Jr. (118) Haggin Course

2013 Sweet Cassiopeia* (5) Joseph Rocco Jr. (118) Spun Cap (4) Sounds of the City (5) 1:03.07 fm 1 1/4

Dan Considine and William R. Connelly Joel Rosario (118) Julien Leparoux (118) Keeneland Course Steve C. Snowden

2012 Flash Mash (4) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Well Deserved (5) Classy Zip (4) 1:03.19 fm 1/2

Prime Equestrian (Didier Reed) Michael Stidham Julien Leparoux (118) Javier Castellano (118) Haggin Course

2011 Holiday for Kitten (3) Juan Delgado (111) Wild About Marie (4) Speedacious (4) 1:02.78 ft 1/2

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Wesley A. Ward Robby Albarado (118) Jamie Theriot (121) Haggin Course

2010 West Ocean (4) Javier Castellano (118) Libor Lady (5) Silver Time (4) 1:02.23 fm 4 3/4

Wertheimer and Frere Todd A. Pletcher Robby Albarado (118) John McKee (118) Haggin Course (Alain and Gerard Wertheimer)

Giant’s Causeway Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2009 Diamondrella (GB) (5) Rajiv Maragh (121) Marina Ballerina (5) Lady Chace (4) 1:02.71 fm 1

Castletop Stable (Morton Topfer) Angel Penna Jr. Rene Douglas (118) Miguel Mena (118) Haggin Course

2008 Danceroftherealm (GB) (5) Miguel Mena (124) Kindling (6) Jazzy (ARG) (6) 1:03.33 fm 1/2

Richard L. Lister Malcolm Pierce Kent Desormeaux (118) Garrett Gomez (118) Haggin Course

2007 Forest Code (4) Garrett Gomez (118) Haddie Be Good (4) South Necking (ARG) (4) 1:02.73 fm 1 1/2

Blyar Stable (Ray Bauch) Todd A. Pletcher Javier Castellano (118) Robby Albarado (118) Haggin Course

2006 Gilded Gold (5) Javier Castellano (118) Bright Gold (6) Ebony Breeze (6) 1:02.81 gd 3/4

Bobby Flay, Robert E. Alan E. Goldberg Horacio Karamanos (121) Cornelio Velasquez (118) Haggin Course

Masterson and Barry Weisbord

Runas theStravinskyStakes2000-2005

2005 Tara’s Touch (SAF) (6) Mike Smith (118) Shaunavon (4) Singit (4) 1:04.52 yl 3/4

Team Valor Stables Niall M. O’Callaghan Eddie Martin Jr. (118) Corey Lanerie (118) Haggin Course

(Barry Irwin et al) and Margaux Farm (Steve Johnson)

2004 Dyna Da Wyna* (4) Pat Day (120) Boozin’ Susan (5) Put Me In (4) 1:02.63 fm no

WinStar Farm W. Elliott Walden Robby Albarado (120) Jerry Bailey (118) Haggin Course (Bill Casner et al)

2003 Repository (5) Jerry Bailey (120) Crystal Sea (6) On the Fritz (5) 1:03.29 fm 2

Rafter L Stables (Mary L. Bonham) D. Wayne Lukas Kent Desormeaux (118) Robby Albarado (118) Haggin Course

2002 Dianehill (IRE) (6) Pat Day (118) Senorita Ziggy (4) Ioya Two (7) 1:03.41 fm 1/2

WinStar Farm W. Elliott Walden Brian Peck (118) Rene Douglas (120) Keeneland Course (Bill Casner et al)

2001 Confessional (5) Edgar Prado (118) Crystal Sea (4) Katz Me If You Can (4) 1:02.47 fm 3/4

Pin Oak Stable H. Graham Motion Frank Lovato Jr. (118) Pat Day (118) Keeneland Course

(Josephine Abercrombie) (ECR)

2000 Steal a Heart (5) Robby Albarado (123) Naughty (4) Debby d’Or (5) 1:02 2/5 fm no Jeffrey Amling Alice Cohn Larry Melancon (116) Willie Martinez (116) Keeneland Course Runas theSpinningWorldStakes1998-1999

1999 Ayrial Delight (7) Randy Romero (120) Beauty Brush (4) Annie’s Apple (5) 1:02 3/5 fm hd (1st) Dwight M. Mentzer R. James Taylor Willie Martinez (115) Tracy Hebert (115) Keeneland Course (NSR)

1999 Storm Alert (4) Francisco Torres (115) Fleeting Honey Steal a Heart (4) 1:02 3/5 fm 1 1/2 (2nd) G. Watts Humphrey Jr. George R. Arnold II Randy Romero (115) Craig Perret (123) Keeneland Course (NSR)

1998 Golden Mirage (IRE) (3) Willie Martinez (104) Song of Africa (5) Tarzcena (5) 1:03 4/5 yl 3/4 Alice and James Sapara Josie Carroll Pat Day (114) Francisco Torres (114) Keeneland Course Runas theDoubledogdareStakes

1997 Singing Heart (5) Craig Perret (114) Mediation (IRE) (5) Ultimate Strike (5) 1:02 2/5 fm hd Carl Icahn Alice Cohn Jose Santos (114) Shane Sellers (114) Keeneland Course (NCR)

*Winningfavorite. Listed,2006-2023.Grade3,2024-2025.Grade2,2026.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keeneland did not hold a 2020 Spring Meet but conducted a five-day Summer Meet from July 8-12. This race was not run in 2020.

Indian Summer Stakes (G3)

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9th Running • Fall • 5 1/2 furlongs (turf) • 2-year-olds

Keeneland ran an Indian Summer Stakes from 1991-1996 and 1998-2001. The name was resurrected in 2018 for the track’s new Fall Meet stakes for 2-year-olds racing 5½ furlongs on the turf.

Milestones – Giant’s Causeway Stakes

2025 Purse: $300,000 Stakes Record: 1:02.28, Schwarzenegger, 2025

Largest Straight Payoff: $17.31, Committee of One, 2023

Smallest Straight Payoff: $3.80, Averly Jane, 2021

Largest Field: 12, 2018, 2024

Smallest Field: 6, 2020

Largest Value to Winner: $179,025, Schwarzenegger, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Indian Summer Stakes History

2025 Schwarzenegger* John Velazquez (118) Obliteration

Legend (GB) 1:02.28 fm 1/2

Mrs. John Magnier, Mountmellick Wesley A. Ward Jose Ortiz (120) Flavien Prat (118)

Farm (David Fennelly), Brook T.

Smith and Resolution Road Stables (Roy Israel and Laura Walker)

2024 Governor Sam* Paco Lopez (120) Out On Bail

Bregman Family Racing (Alex George Weaver Luis Saez (120) Gerardo Corrales (118) Bregman) and Swinbank Stables (Reagan Swinbank)

2023 Committee of One Cristian Torres (118) Amidst Waves

J. Kirk and Judy Robison Steven M. Asmussen John Velazquez (117) Adam Beschizza (118)

2022 Private Creed Joel Rosario (120) Mo Stash

Nay Hudson (IRE) 1:02.30 fm 3/4

Mike McCarty Steven M. Asmussen Rafael Bejarano (118) John Velazquez (118)

2021 f-Averly Jane* Tyler Gaffalione (117) f-Kaufymaker

Hat Creek Racing (Gatewood Bell) Wesley A. Ward Irad Ortiz Jr. (116) Robby Albarado (118) 2020 Bodenheimer Brian Hernandez Jr. (120) Cowan f-Agog 1:02.70 fm 1

Kristin Boice and Marylou Holden Valorie Lund Ricardo Santana Jr. (118) James Graham (115) 2019 f-Kimari* Mike Smith (117) Chimney Rock Axiomo 1:03.03 fm 1/2

Ten Broeck Farm (David Mowat) Wesley A. Ward Jose Ortiz (118) Adam Beschizza (118) 2018 Strike Silver Julien Leparoux (118) f-Chelsea Cloisters Reward the Miracle 1:05.00 fm nk

John C. Oxley Mark E. Casse Jose Ortiz (116) Jarred Journet (118)

*Winningfavorite. f-filly. Listed,2020-2025;Grade3,2026

Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1)

38th Running • Spring • 1 1/16 miles (turf) • 4-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

Jenny Wiley was a Virginia pioneer who survived an Indian attack, captivity and the murders of her five children and her three brothers. After escaping captivity and reuniting with her husband, Wiley and her family moved to Kentucky, where her legend is commemorated with two highway markers, a state park and an outdoor drama.

Milestones – Jenny Wiley Stakes

2025 Purse: $650,000

Stakes Record: 1:39.02, Rushing Fall, 2020

Largest Straight Payoff: $53.68, Beaute Cachee (FR), 2024

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.80, Tepin, 2016

Largest Field: 11, 2018

Smallest Field: 6, 1993; 2007; 2012; 2015; 2021

Largest Value to Winner: $306,125, Regal Glory, 2022; In Italian (GB), 2023

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.) –Forever Together, 2009

Bloomsbury Stud (Lord Howland et al) –Thrilling Day (GB), 1997

Brant, Peter M. – Sistercharlie (IRE), 2018; Regal Glory, 2022; In Italian (GB), 2023

Claiborne Farm (Estate of Mrs. Arthur B. Hancock Jr.) – Wend, 2006

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds (Robert J. Edwards Jr.) – Rushing Fall, 2019, 2020

Evans, Bart B. – Wasted Tears, 2010

Farish, W.S. and F. Steve Mooney –Ball Dancing, 2015

Firestone, Matthew K. – Misspitch, 1994

Flaxman Holdings Ltd. (Alois Jurt) –Sea of Showers, 2003

Godolphin Racing – Dickinson, 2017

Arnold II, George R. – Centre Court, 2013

Baker, James E. – Indian Fashion, 1992 Bell, Michael H. – Thrilling Day (GB), 1997

Block, Chris M. – Never Retreat, 2011 Bohannan, Tom – Foresta, 1991

Bray, Simon – Astra, 2000

Brown, Chad C. – Ball Dancing, 2015; Sistercharlie (IRE), 2018; Rushing Fall, 2019, 2020; Regal Glory, 2022; In Italian (GB), 2023; Beaute Cachee (FR), 2024 Casse, Mark E. – Tepin, 2016

Owners – Jenny Wiley Stakes

Hillsbrook Farms – Hard Not to Like, 2014 Humphrey Jr., G. Watts – Centre Court, 2013

Irwin, Richard D. – Native Mommy, 1989

Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah) –Tates Creek, 2002; Intercontinental (GB), 2004, 2005

Juddmonte (Fahad bin Khalid) – Juliet Foxtrot (GB), 2021

Live Oak Plantation (Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber) – My Typhoon (IRE), 2007

Loblolly Stable (John Ed Anthony) –Foresta, 1991

Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin), Michael Dubb and Louis Lazzinnaro – Beaute Cachee (FR), 2024

Masterson, Robert E. – Tepin, 2016

Miller, James M. – Daisy Devine, 2012

Overbrook Farm (William T. Young) –Penny’s Gold, 2001

Trainers – Jenny Wiley Stakes

Clement, Christophe – Penny’s Gold, 2001; Rutherienne, 2008

Cox, Brad H. – Juliet Foxtrot (GB), 2021 Crisford, Simon – Choisya (GB), 2025

Day, James E. – Regal Wonder, 1990

Evans, Bart B. – Wasted Tears, 2010

Frankel, Robert J. – Tates Creek, 2002; Sea of Showers, 2003; Intercontinental (GB), 2004, 2005; Hennig, Mark – Lady Blessington (FR), 1993

Matz, Michael – Hard Not to Like, 2014

Pacella, W.L., J. Rizza and R. Schwed –Romy, 1995

Paulson, Allen E. – Apolda, 1996; Astra, 2000

Payson, Virginia Kraft – Rutherienne, 2008

Rabbah Bloodstock (Brian Russell Thompson) –Choisya (GB), 2025

Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel) –Regal Wonder, 1990

Sekiguchi, Fusao – Maxzene, 1998

Stanley, Mark H. – Pleasant Temper, 1999

Team Block (David, Patricia and Ryan Block) – Never Retreat, 2011

Team Valor Stable (Barry Irwin and Jeff Siegel) – Lady Blessington (FR), 1993

Wigginton, Candie A. and Robert Hoeweler – Indian Fashion, 1992

McKeever, Andrew – Daisy Devine, 2012

McLaughlin, Kiaran P. – Dickinson, 2017

Mott, William I. – My Typhoon (IRE), 2007; Wend, 2006; Apolda, 1996; Misspitch, 1994

Pierce Jr., Joseph H. – Native Mommy, 1989

Sheppard, Jonathan E. – Forever Together, 2009

Skiffington, Thomas J. – Maxzene, 1998

Walden, W. Elliott – Pleasant Temper, 1999 Yanez, Moises R. – Romy, 1995

Bailey, Jerry – Apolda, 1996; Pleasant Temper, 1999; Sea of Showers, 2003; Intercontinental (GB), 2004, 2005

Bridgmohan, Shaun – Never Retreat, 2011

Castellano, Javier – Hard Not to Like, 2014; Ball Dancing, 2015; Rushing Fall, 2019, 2020

Castro, Eddie – My Typhoon (IRE), 2007

Cordero Jr., Angel – Foresta, 1991 Day, Pat – Lady Blessington (FR), 1993

Desormeaux, Kent – Tates Creek, 2002

Dettori, Lanfranco – Beaute Cachee (FR), 2024

Jockeys – Jenny Wiley Stakes

Gaffalione, Tyler – Juliet Foxtrot (GB), 2021

Gomez, Garrett – Rutherienne, 2008

Graham, James – Daisy Devine, 2012

Leparoux, Julien – Forever Together, 2009; Centre Court, 2013; Tepin, 2016

Lopez, Paco – Dickinson, 2017

Lopez, Ricardo – Regal Wonder, 1990

Maragh, Rajiv – Wasted Tears, 2010

Martinez, Willie – Thrilling Day (GB), 1997 Nakatani, Corey – Astra, 2000

Jenny Wiley Stakes History

Ortiz Jr., Irad – In Italian (GB), 2023

Ortiz, Jose – Regal Glory, 2022

Perret, Craig – Native Mommy, 1989

Prado, Edgar – Wend, 2006

Saez, Luis – Choisya (GB), 2025

Santos, Jose – Indian Fashion, 1992; Maxzene, 1998; Penny’s Gold, 2001

Smith, Mike – Misspitch, 1994

Torres, Francisco – Romy, 1995

Velazquez, John – Sistercharlie (IRE), 2018

2025 Choisya (GB) (5) Luis Saez (123)

Rabbah Bloodstock Simon Crisford Flavien Prat (123) Lanfranco Dettori (123)

(Brian Russell Thompson)

2024 Beaute Cachee (FR) (5) Lanfranco Dettori (123) English Rose (IRE) (4)

Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin), Chad C. Brown William Buick (123) Jose Ortiz (123)

Michael Dubb and Louis Lazzinnaro

2023 In Italian (GB)* (5) Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) With The Moonlight (IRE) (4) White

Peter M. Brant Chad C. Brown William Buick (123) Lanfranco Dettori (123)

2022 Regal Glory* (6) Jose Ortiz (123) Shantisara (IRE) (4) Lady Speightspeare (4) 1:40.97 gd

Peter M. Brant Chad C. Brown Flavien Prat (123) Luis Saez (123)

2021 Juliet Foxtrot (GB) (6) Tyler Gaffalione (118) Tamahere (FR) (4) La Signare (FR) (6) 1:44.51 yl

Juddmonte (Fahad bin Khalid) Brad H. Cox Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) John Velazquez (118)

2020 Rushing Fall* (5) Javier Castellano (118) Jolie Olimpica (BRZ) (4) Juliet Foxtrot (GB) (5) 1:39.02 fm 3/4

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds Chad C. Brown Mike Smith (118) Tyler Gaffalione (118) (NCR) (Robert J. Edwards Jr.)

2019 Rushing Fall* (4) Javier Castellano (120) Rymska (FR) (5) Got Stormy (4) 1:42.77 fm 1

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds Chad C. Brown Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Tyler Gaffalione (118)

(Robert J. Edwards Jr.)

2018 Sistercharlie (IRE) (4) John Velazquez (118) Fourstar Crook (6) Off Limits (IRE) (6) 1:41.41 fm 2 1/4

Peter M. Brant Chad C. Brown Javier Castellano (120) Joel Rosario (123)

2017 Dickinson (5) Paco Lopez (120) Lady Eli (5) Quidura (GB) (4) 1:41.98 fm hd

Godolphin Racing Kiaran P. McLaughlin Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) Junior Alvarado (118)

2016 Tepin* (5) Julien Leparoux (123) Wekeela (FR) (4) Illuminant (4) 1:40.53 fm 5

Robert E. Masterson Mark E. Casse Gary Stevens (118) Flavien Prat (118) Haggin Course

2015 Ball Dancing *(4) Javier Castellano (118) Filimbi (5) Hard Not to Like (6) 1:43.08 yl 2 1/2

W.S. Farish and F. Steve Mooney Chad C. Brown Joel Rosario (120) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Haggin Course

2014 Hard Not to Like (5) Javier Castellano (118) Discreet Marq (4) Abaco (6) 1:42.38 fm 1/2

Hillsbrook Farms Michael Matz Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Jose Lezcano (118) Haggin Course

2013 Centre Court* (4) Julien Leparoux (120) Daisy Devine (5) Samitar (GB) (4) 1:41.73 fm 2

G. Watts Humphrey Jr. George R. Arnold II James Graham (120) Javier Castellano (118) Haggin Course

2012 Daisy Devine (4) James Graham (118) Bay to Bay (5) Tapitsfly (5) 1:43.21 fm 1

James M. Miller Andrew McKeever Garrett Gomez (118) Julien Leparoux (120) Haggin Course 2011 Never Retreat (6) Shaun Bridgmohan (119) Fantasia (GB) (5) Zagora (FR) (4) 1:44.72 yl 1 3/4

Team Block Chris M. Block Rosie Napravnik (117) Julien Leparoux (117) Haggin Course

(David, Patricia and Ryan Block)

2010 Wasted Tears (5) Rajiv Maragh (119) Forever Together (6) Hot Cha Cha (4) 1:40.86 fm 1/2

Bart B. Evans Bart B. Evans Julien Leparoux (117) James Graham (117) Haggin Course

2009 Forever Together* (5) Julien Leparoux (123) Rutherienne (5) Kiss With a Twist (5) 1:46.93 gd 1

Augustin Stable Jonathan E. Sheppard Alan Garcia (117) Miguel Mena (117) Haggin Course (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2008 Rutherienne (4) Garrett Gomez (119) Stormy West (4) Lady of Venice (FR) (5) 1:44.76 fm nk

Virginia Kraft Payson Christophe Clement Kent Desormeaux (117) Edgar Prado (119) Haggin Course

2007 My Typhoon (IRE) (5) Eddie Castro (119) Precious Kitten (4) Fantastic Shirl (4) 1:43.37 ft nk

Live Oak Plantation William I. Mott Rafael Bejarano (123) Edgar Prado (117) Off Turf

(Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber)

2006 Wend* (5) Edgar Prado (117) Asi Siempre (4) Mirabilis (4) 1:41.34 fm 1 1/2

Claiborne Farm William I. Mott Julien Leparoux (117) Patrick Valenzuela (118) Haggin Course (Estate of Mrs. Arthur B. Hancock Jr.)

2005 Intercontinental (GB)* (5) Jerry Bailey (123) Delta Princess (6) Sister Swank (4) 1:41.89 fm 1 Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah) Robert J. Frankel Cornelio Velasquez (117) Corey Lanerie (117) Haggin Course

2004 Intercontinental (GB)* (4) Jerry Bailey (116) Ocean Drive (4) Madeira Mist (IRE) (5) 1:41.41 fm 1 Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah) Robert J. Frankel John Velazquez (116) Javier Castellano (118) Haggin Course

Jenny Wiley Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2003 Sea of Showers* (4) Jerry Bailey (116) Magic Mission (GB) (5) Snow Dance (5) 1:41.89 fm 1 1/4

Flaxman Holdings Ltd. (Alois Jurt) Robert J. Frankel Edgar Prado (116) Jose Santos (116) Haggin Course

2002 Tates Creek (4) Kent Desormeaux (116) Snow Dance (4) Step With Style (5) 1:42.27 fm hd Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah) Robert J. Frankel Pat Day (123) Jerry Bailey (116) Haggin Course

2001 Penny’s Gold* (4) Jose Santos (116) License Fee (6) Solvig (4) 1:40.93 fm 1 3/4

Overbrook Farm (William T. Young) Christophe Clement Pat Day (118) Jon Court (116) Haggin Course

2000 Astra (4) Corey Nakatani (118) Pratella (5) Ronda (GB) (4) 1:42 2/5 fm 1 1/2

Allen E. Paulson Simon Bray Larry Melancon (118) John Velazquez (116) Haggin Course

1999 Pleasant Temper (5) Jerry Bailey (117) Mingling Glances (5) Red Cat (4) 1:40 4/5 fm 1 1/2

Mark H. Stanley W. Elliott Walden Pat Day (114)

Shane Sellers (117) Haggin Course

1998 Maxzene* (5) Jose Santos (114) Parade Queen (4) Rumpipumpy (GB) (5) 1:42 4/5 yl 1

Fusao Sekiguchi

Thomas J. Skiffington Pat Day (121) Jerry Bailey (114) Haggin Course

1997 Thrilling Day (GB) (4) Willie Martinez (115) Romy (6) Gastronomical (4) 1:41 fm 2 1/2

Bloomsbury Stud Michael H. Bell Francisco Torres (121) Shane Sellers (115) Keeneland Course (Lord Howland et al)

1996 Apolda* (5)

Jerry Bailey (121) Mediation (IRE) Luzette (BR) 1:40 3/5 fm no

Allen E. Paulson William I. Mott Jose Santos (118) Shane Sellers (121) Haggin Course

1995 Romy (4)

Francisco Torres (118) Weekend Madness (IRE) (5) Bold Ruritana (5) 1:43 1/5 fm hd

W.L. Pacella, J. Rizza and R. Schwed Moises R. Yanez Shane Sellers (121) Pat Day (121) Haggin Course

1994 Misspitch (4)

Mike Smith (118) Park Dream (IRE) (5) Sh Bang (5) 1:43 4/5 fm nk

Matthew K. Firestone William I. Mott Jean-Luc Samyn (112) Craig Perret (118) Haggin Course

1993 Lady Blessington (FR) (5) Pat Day (118) Radiant Ring (5) Super Fan (6) 1:42 2/5 fm 1 1/4

Team Valor Stable Mark Hennig Craig Perret (118) Shane Sellers (118) Haggin Course

(Barry Irwin and Jeff Siegel)

1992 Indian Fashion (5) Jose Santos (115) Spanish Parade (4) Radiant Ring (4) 1:41 1/5 fm 4

Robert Hoeweler James E. Baker Pat Day (121) Craig Perret (121) Haggin Course

and Candie A. Wigginton

1991 Foresta* (5) Angel Cordero Jr. (121) Dance for Lucy (5) The Caretaker (4) 1:43 4/5 fm no

Loblolly Stable (John Ed Anthony) Tom Bohannan Larry Melancon (121) Craig Perret (115)

1990 Regal Wonder (6) Ricardo Lopez (121) Majestic Legend (5) Phoenix Sunshine (5) 1:46 1/5 yl 3/4

Sam-Son Farm (Ernest L. Samuel) James E. Day Craig Perret (121) Joe Deegan (115)

1989 Native Mommy* (6) Craig Perret (121) Blossoming Beauty (4) Here’s Your Silver (4) 1:43 3/5 fm 3/4

Richard D. Irwin Joseph H. Pierce Jr. Randy Romero (113) Jim McKnight (115)

*Winningfavorite.

Listed,1989-1994;Grade3,1995-2005;Grade2,2006-2011;Grade1,2012-present.

BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnot holda 2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisrace was runduringthe SummerMeet.

Jessamine Stakes (G2)

PresentedbyKeenelandSales

36th Running • Fall • 1 1/16 miles (turf) • 2-year-old fillies

The stakes is named for Jessamine County, formed in 1799 and a center of agriculture and Thoroughbred farms. Located to the southeast of Lexington, its county seat is Nicholasville.

Milestones – Jessamine Stakes

2025 Purse: $400,000

Stakes Record: 1:40.86, Aunt Pearl (IRE), 2020

Largest Straight Payoff: $74, Moonwalk, 2012

Smallest Straight Payoff: $3.00, Paddy’s Daisy, 2004

Largest Field: 14, 2015; 2017; 2019

Smallest Field: 7, 2006

Largest Value to Winner: $229,400, Imaginationthelady, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Jessamine Stakes History

Keeneland sales graduate Imaginationthelady swept to the front of a tight pack at the sixteenth pole to score a 1-length victory over Infinite Sky in the

(G2) Presented by Keeneland Sales.

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Imaginationthelady Lanfranco Dettori (118) Infinite Sky

Mark Dobbin Brendan P. Walsh Luan Machado (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (120)

2024 May Day Ready Lanfranco Dettori (120) Totally Justified Destino d’Oro 1:44.10 fm no

KatieRich Stables Joseph R. Lee Manuel Franco (120) Flavien Prat (118) (Lawrence P. Doyle)

2023 Buchu Martin Garcia (118) Pharoah’s Wine Crown Imperial 1:42.48 gd 3 3/4

Rigney Racing (Richard Rigney) Philip A. Bauer Martin Chuan (118) Ricardo Santana Jr. (118)

2022 Delight* Luis Saez (118) Knockyoursocksoff Bling 1:44.14 fm 5

Augustin Stable Jonathan Thomas Flavien Prat (118) Rafael Bejarano (118) (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2021 California Angel Rafael Bejarano (118) Diamond Wow Turnerloose 1:44.30 gd hd

Chris Walsh George Leonard III Mike Smith (118) Florent Geroux (120)

2020 Aunt Pearl (IRE)* Florent Geroux (118) Spanish Loveaffair Ingrassia

Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables Brad H. Cox Tyler Gaffalione (120) Javier Castellano (118)

(Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone),

Peter Deutsch, Michael E. Kisber and The Elkstone Group (Stuart Grant)

2019 Sweet Melania Jose Ortiz (118) Witez Ask Bailey 1:43.13 gd 5 1/2

Robert E. and Lawana L. Low Todd A. Pletcher Calvin Borel (118) Corey Lanerie (118)

2018 Concrete Rose Jose Lezcano (118) Pakhet Belle Laura 1:44.09 fm 3

Ashbrook Farm (Glen S. George R. Arnold II John Velazquez (118) Corey Lanerie (118) Bromagen) and BBN Racing

(Ann Braxton Jones Lynch)

2017 Rushing Fall* Javier Castellano (118) Stainless Cash

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds Chad C. Brown Manuel Franco (118) Florent Geroux (118) (Robert J. Edwards Jr.)

2016 La Coronel* Florent Geroux (118) Lull Rum Go 1:43.37 fm 4 1/4

John C. Oxley Mark E. Casse Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) James Graham (118) Haggin Course

2015 Harmonize* Junior Alvarado (120) Sapphire Kitten Outsider Art 1:44.19 fm nk

Larkin Armstrong William I. Mott Julien Leparoux (118) Drayden Van Dyke (118) Keeneland Course

2014 Rainha Da Bateria Joel Rosario (118) Quality Rocks

Three Chimneys Farm H. Graham Motion Jose Lezcano (118) Javier Castellano (118) Keeneland Course

2013 Kitten Kaboodle Alan Garcia (118) Zinzay

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Chad C. Brown Joseph Rocco Jr. (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Keeneland Course

2012 Moonwalk Corey Lanerie (118) Kitten’s Point

Spendthrift Farm Dale L. Romans John R. Velazquez (118) Eddie Castro (118) Keeneland Course

2011 Somali Lemonade* Alex Solis (118) Sweet Cat

1:45.39 yl 1 3/4

Caroline A. Forgason Michael R. Matz John R. Velazquez (118) Garrett Gomez (118) Keeneland Course

Jessamine Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2010 Kathmanblu*

Julien R. Leparoux (118) Lauren Byrd Cloneylass (IRE) 1:44.01 fm 4 Five D Thoroughbreds (William R. Kenneth G. McPeek Garrett Gomez (118) John R. Velazquez (118) Keeneland Course Dobozi) and Wind River Stables (Evan Trommer)

2009 House of Grace Michael Luzzi (117) Smart Seattle Canadian Storm 1:44.32 ft no

Magdalena Racing Kenneth G. McPeek Jeremy Rose (117) Miguel Mena (117) Off Turf (Susan McPeek et al) ThirdplaceHatheerdisqualifiedandplacedlast.

2008 Laragh Edgar Prado (117) Habaya Complicity 1:43.54

Golden Goose Enterprise John P. Terranova II Richard Migliore (117) Julien Leparoux (117) Keeneland Course

(Gary Tolchin) and IEAH Stables

(Michael A. Iavarone)

4 3/4

2007 Wind in My Wings Jamie Theriot (117) Lickety Lemon Jolie Visage 1:45.34 fm nk

Craig B. Singer Reade Baker Robby Albarado (117) Rene Douglas (117) Keeneland Course

2006 Swingit Brian Hernandez Jr. (116) Audacious Chloe Street Sounds 1:43.37 fm nk

Robert Hovelson Hal R. Wiggins John Velazquez (120) Robby Albarado (116) Keeneland Course

2005 J’ray

Brice Blanc (116) Beau Dare Dyna’s Destiny 1:45.57 gd 3/4

Lawrence Goichman Todd A. Pletcher John McKee (122) Rafael Bejarano (116) Keeneland Course

Runas theJessamineCountyStakes2003-2004.

2004 Paddy’s Daisy*

John Velazquez (120) Berbatim Jules Best 1:44.33 gd 1/2

Stonehaven Farm (David Coia) Todd A. Pletcher James Graham (118) Rafael Bejarano (116) Keeneland Course

2003 Galloping Gal* Brice Blanc (118) Peace Symbol

William A. Carl Kenneth G. McPeek Frank Lovato Jr. (116) Curt Bourque (117) Keeneland Course Runas theGreenRiverStakes1991-2002.

2002 Ocean Drive* John Velazquez (120) Sand Springs

Sybon Racing Todd A. Pletcher Pat Day (118) Mark Guidry (122) Haggin Course (Bonnie and Sy Baskin)

2001 Stylelistick Pat Day (116) Lush Soldier

Team Valor (Barry Irwin et al) William I. Mott Mickey Walls (122) Robby Albarado (122) Haggin Course and Dream With Me Stable

(Jean Pierre Dubois)

2000 Word Puzzle*

Marlon St. Julien (120) dh-Tiazo/TC Kiss 1:43.81 fm 2 1/2

Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Charles Simon James Lopez (116)/ Keeneland Course Calvin Borel (116)

1999 Solvig Pat Day (115) Kopenhagen Hummingbird Red 1:42.21 fm no

Bentley L. Smith Carl A. Nafzger Shane Sellers (117) Willie Martinez (115) Keeneland Course

1998 Perfect Sting Pat Day (113) On a Soapbox

Dance Diane 1:43 3/5 fm 3 1/2

Stronach Stables Patrick B. Byrne Robby Albarado (116) Calvin Borel (121) Haggin Course (Elfreide Stronach)

1997 Runnaway Dream

Shane Sellers (113) Quick Lap

Barefoot Dyana 1:43 3/5 fm 3/4

William A. Carl W. Elliott Walden Pat Day (116) Sebastian Madrid (116) Keeneland Course

1996 Parade Queen* Pat Day (118) Starry Dreamer Almost Saintly 1:45 1/5 yl 1 1/2

W.S. Farish and E.J. Hudson Neil J. Howard Willie Martinez (115) Herbert McCauley (112) Haggin Course

1995 Antespend*

Jack Kent Cooke

1994 Christmas Gift

Shane Sellers (118) Supreme Silver Wistfully 1:45 1/5 fm 3/4

Daniel M. Smithwick Jr. Pat Day (115) Angelo Trosclair (112) Haggin Course

Charles Woods Jr. (115) Upper Noosh Lady She Is Too 1:43 4/5 fm 1/2 (1st) Edward P. Evans

1994 Bail Out Becky

Mark Hennig Eddie Maple (121) Shane Sellers (115) Keeneland Course

Shane Sellers (115) Rose Law Firm Honolulu Gold 1:44 fm 2 (2nd) Kenneth L. Ramsey William I. Mott Pat Day (118) Aaron Gryder (121) Keeneland Course

1993 Fred’s Affair* Joe Steiner (115) Bedroom Blues Ms. Busybody 1:45 2/5 fm 4

Jeff Rand Terry Brennan Pat Day (115) Jeff Carl (115) Keeneland Course

1992 Warside*

Shane Sellers (121) Kates Delimma Mollie Creek 1:45 1/5 fm nk

Roy K. Monroe Kenneth G. McPeek Willie Martinez (112) Larry Melancon (115) Keeneland Course 1991 Shes Just Super Pat Day (115) Sandy’s Storm Lil’ Miss Attitude 1:44 4/5 fm 2

William A. Carl W. Elliott Walden Dean Kutz (112) Shane Sellers (115)

*Winningfavorite.

Grade3,2011-2017;Grade2,2018-present.

Stonestreet Lexington Stakes (G3)

SponsoredbyStonestreet

44th Running • Spring • 1 1/16 miles • 3-year-olds

The Lexington first was contested by 2-year-olds during Keeneland’s inaugural meeting in October 1936. The race was run as a handicap for 3-year-olds and older horses from 19381941. It returned to the stakes schedule in 1984 when officials elevated the Calumet Purse — an important allowance race for 3-year-olds — to an added-money event and renamed it the Lexington Stakes. Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet began to sponsor the race in 2017.

Milestones – Lexington Stakes

2025 Purse: $400,000

Stakes Record: 1:41, Charismatic, 1999

Largest Straight Payoff: $143.20, All Squared Away, 2012

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.60, Hansel, 1991

Largest Field: 14, 2004

Smallest Field: 4, 1991

Largest Value to Winner: $241,800, Gosger, 2025

Stakes History (Kentucky

2025 Gosger Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) Bracket Buster

Harvey A. Clarke Racing Stables Brendan P. Walsh Manuel Franco (123) Flavien Prat (123) (Donna Clarke)

2024 Encino Florent Geroux (118) The Wine Steward Dilger (IRE)

Godolphin Brad H. Cox Luis Saez (118) Tyler Gaffalione (118) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2023 First Mission* Luis Saez (118) Arabian Lion

Godolphin Brad H. Cox Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Jose Ortiz (118) (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2022 Tawny Port Florent Geroux (118) Major General In Due Time 1:45.24 ft 1 Peachtree Stable (John P. Fort) Brad H. Cox Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Paco Lopez (118)

2021 King Fury Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Unbridled Honor Starrininmydreams

3/4 Fern Circle Stables (Paul Kenneth G. McPeek Julien Leparoux (118) Luis Saez (118) Fireman) and Three Chimneys Farm (Goncalo B. Torrealba)

2020 Not run

2019 Owendale Florent Geroux (118) Anothertwistafate

Rupp Racing (Jim Rupp) Brad H. Cox Javier Castellano (120) Corey Lanerie (118)

2018 My Boy Jack* Kent Desormeaux (120) Telekinesis

Don’t Tell My Wife Stables (Kirk J. Keith Desormeaux Javier Castellano (118) John Velazquez (118) Godby) and Monomoy Stables (Sol Kumin)

2017 Senior Investment Channing Hill (118) West Coast

Fern Circle Stables (Paul Fireman) Kenneth G. McPeek Flavien Prat (118) Joel Rosario (118)

2016 Collected Javier Castellano (120) One More Round

Speedway Stable Bob A. Baffert Jose Lezcano (118) Shaun Bridgmohan (118) (Peter Fluor)

2015 Divining Rod Julien Leparoux (118) Donworth

Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour Joel Rosario (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118)

2014 Mr Speaker* Jose Lezcano (120) Divine Oath

Phipps Stable Claude R. McGaughey III Javier Castellano (118) Joel Rosario (118) Polytrack

2013 Winning Cause Julien Leparoux (118) General Election

Alto Racing (Gil Moutray) Todd A. Pletcher Joseph Rocco Jr. (118) Jesus Castanon (118) Polytrack

2012 All Squared Away Julio Garcia (118) Summer Front Hammers Terror 1:42.55 ft 1 1/2

Altamira Racing Stable (Peter Wesley A. Ward Ramon Dominguez (120) Robby Albarado (118) Polytrack Miller) and Wire to Wire Racing Inc. (Bob Rodriguez)

2011 Derby Kitten Julien Leparoux (117) Prime Cut Casper’s Touch 1:42.03 ft 1 1/2 Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey Michael J. Maker Edgar Prado (117) Alan Garcia (117) Polytrack

Lexington Stakes History (Kentucky Derby 1-2-3-4

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2010 Exhi Robby Albarado (121) Bushwhacked Uptowncharlybrown 1:44.38 ft 1 Wertheimer and Frere Todd A. Pletcher Rajiv Maragh (117) Garrett Gomez (117) Polytrack (Alain and Gerard Wertheimer)

2009 Advice Garrett Gomez (117) Conservative Square Eddie 1:43.33 ft 1

WinStar Farm Todd A. Pletcher Kent Desormeaux (117) Edgar Prado (123) Polytrack (Bill Casner et al)

2008 Behindatthebar David Flores (117) Samba Rooster Riley Tucker 1:42.14 ft 1

Padua Stables (Satish K. Sanan), Todd A. Pletcher Garrett Gomez (117) John Velazquez (117) Polytrack Michael Shustek and W. Don Stanley

2007 Slew’s Tizzy Robby Albarado (117) Starbase Forty Grams 1:43.20 ft 3 1/2 Joseph LaCombe Stable Inc. Gregory J. Fox Corey Lanerie (117) Garrett Gomez (117) Polytrack (Joseph LaCombe)

2006 Showing Up* Cornelio Velasquez (117) Like Now Bear Character 1:46.42 ft 1 1/4

Lael Stables (Roy Jackson) Barclay Tagg Fernando Jara (123) Rene Douglas (117)

2005 Coin Silver Javier Castellano (117) Sort It Out Storm Surge 1:45.76 sy 3 1/2

Peachtree Stable (John Fort) Todd A. Pletcher Brice Blanc (117) Robby Albarado (118)

2004 Quintons Gold Rush Jerry Bailey (116) Fire Slam Song of the Sword

Padua Stables (Satish K. Sanan) Steven M. Asmussen Pat Day (116) Norberto Arroyo Jr. (116)

and Jay Manoogian

2003 Scrimshaw

Edgar Prado (116) Eye of the Tiger Domestic Dispute 1:45.47 ft 3

Beverly J. and Robert B. Lewis D. Wayne Lukas Robby Albarado (116) Jerry Bailey (116)

2002 Proud Citizen (2nd) Mike Smith (116) Crimson Hero

Robert C. Baker, D. Wayne Lukas Jerry Bailey (116) Donnie Meche (116) David Cornstein *listedFast and William L. Mack byEquibase

2001 Keats

Larry Melancon (116) Griffinite Bay Eagle 1:43.54 ft 3/4

Henry E. Pabst Niall M. O’Callaghan Craig Perret (116) Jon Court (116) Mr.Johndisqualifiedfromsecondandplacedeighth.

2000 Unshaded Shane Sellers (116) Globalize Harlan Traveler 1:43 3/5 ft 3

Jim Tafel Carl Nafzger Francisco Torres (120) Mike Smith (116)

1999 Charismatic (1st) Jerry Bailey (115) Yankee Victor Finder’s Gold 1:41 ft 2 1/2

Beverly J. and Robert B. Lewis D. Wayne Lukas Shane Sellers (115) David Flores (115)

1998 Classic Cat Robby Albarado (114) Voyamerican Grand Slam 1:42 4/5 my hd

Gary M. Garber David C. Cross Jr. Eibar Coa (114) Jerry Bailey (123)

1997 Touch Gold Gary Stevens (115) Smoke Glacken Deeds Not Words 1:43 1/5 ft 8 1/2

Frank Stronach and Stonerside Ltd. David E. Hofmans Craig Perret (118) Jerry Bailey (112)

(Janice and Robert C. McNair)

1996 City by Night Shane Sellers (113) Prince of Thieves (3rd) Roar 1:42 1/5 ft no

Nancy and Richard Kaster Patrick B. Byrne Pat Day (118) Mike Smith (118)

1995 Star Standard Pat Day (115) Royal Mitch Guadalcanal 1:45 sy 2 1/4

William J. Condren and Nicholas P. Zito Robbie Davis (118) Jerry Bailey (115) Joseph Cornacchia

1994 Southern Rhythm Garrett Gomez (118) Soul of the Matter Ulises 1:45 3/5 ft 2 1/2

William Heiligbrodt et al James O. Keefer Kent Desormeaux (118) Craig Perret (113)

1993 Grand Jewel Jerry Bailey (118) El Bakan Truth of It All 1:43 3/5 ft 1/2

William S. Farish and Neil J. Howard Jose Santos (113) Jorge Velasquez (118)

William S. Kilroy

1992 My Luck Runs North Ricardo Lopez (115) Lure Agincourt 1:44 my nk

Melvin A. Benitez Angel M. Medina Mike Smith (118) Jorge Chavez (115)

1991 Hansel* Jerry Bailey (121) Shotgun Harry J. Speedy Cure 1:42 3/5 ft 9

Lazy Lane Farms Inc. Frank L. Brothers Dave Penna (115) Ricardo Lopez (118) (Joe Allbritton)

1990 Home At Last Jerry Bailey (118) Pleasant Tap (3rd) Thirty Slews 1:43 2/5 ft 2

Russell L. Reineman Stable Inc. Carl Nafzger Kent Desormeaux (115) Eddie Delahoussaye (116)

1989 Notation Pat Day (115) Bionic Prospect Charlie Barley 1:44 2/5 ft no

Joan C. Johnson et al James W. Murphy Gene St. Leon (114) Robin Platts (118)

1988 Risen Star (3rd) Jacinto Vasquez (118) Forty Niner (2nd) Stalwars 1:42 4/5 ft hd

Louie J. Roussel III and Louie J. Roussel III Pat Day (121) Chris McCarron (118)

Ronnie Lamarque

1987 War

Herb McCauley (115) Candi’s Gold Momentus 1:44 2/5 ft 2 1/2

Tom Gentry D. Wayne Lukas William Shoemaker (115) Alex Solis (118)

1986 Wise Times

Keith Allen (112) Country Light Blue Buckaroo 1:44 4/5 ft 2

Russell L. Reineman Stable Phil Gleaves Pat Day (118) Earlie Fires (112)

1985 Stephan’s Odyssey* (2nd) Laffit Pincay Jr. (118) Tajawa Northern Bid 1:42 3/5 ft 1 1/4

Henryk de Kwiatkowski W.C. Stephens Patricia Cooksey (112) Phil Rubbicco (112)

Lexington Stakes History

(Kentucky Derby 1-2-3-4 finish in parentheses)

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1984 He Is a Great Deal Julio C. Espinoza (111) Swale (1st) Timely Advocate 1:45 2/5 sy 8

Bernard S. Flint Inc. and Bernard S. Flint Laffit Pincay Jr. (123) Jim McKnight (112)

Mike Palmisano

Runas CalumetPurse,anovernightallowancerace, from1973-1983.

1983 Highland Park* Jacinto Vasquez (123) Passing Base Roman Force 1:44 4/5 ft no

Bwamazon Farm and Anthony Basile Jim McKnight (113) Ronald Franklin (112)

Brereton C. Jones

1982 Stage Reviewer Jerry Bailey (112) Call To Arms D’Accord 1:44 1/5 ft 1

Mrs. Lucien Laurin Lucien Laurin Randy Romero (113) Darrel McHargue (120)

1981 Swinging Light Dan Delahoussaye (113) Sportin’ Life

Edgar Zantker James P. Conway Sandy Hawley (113) Julio C. Espinoza (113)

1980 Rockhill Native*

Harry A. Oak

1979 Pianist*

John Oldham (118) Hazard Duke Ray’s Word 1:43 2/5 gd 6 3/4

Herbert K. Stevens Michael Morgan (112) Richard dePass (121)

Michael Morgan (112) Julie’s Dancer Rich and Ready 1:43 ft 1/2

Pillar Farm Peter M. Howe Mark Sellers (112) Don Brumfield (114)

1978 Sensitive Prince*

Mickey Solomone (121) Chop Chop Tomahawk Special Honor

Joseph Taub H. Allen Jerkens David Whited (121) Richard dePass (115)

1977 Giboulee

Jeff Fell (123) Run Dusty Run

Coined Silver 1:42 4/5 ft no

Jean-Louis Levesque Jacques Dumas Darrel McHargue (123) Eddie Delahoussaye (123)

1976 No Link

Darrel McHargue (121) Inca Roca

Go East Young Man 1:43 1/5 ft 5 1/2

Fred Selz and Gus Blass Doug Davis Jr. William Nemeti (121) Eddie Delahoussaye (121)

1975 Master Derby* (4th) Darrel McHargue (123) Ruggles Ferry Country Boy Jim 1:42 3/5 gd

Golden Chance Farm Inc. William E. Adams Heriberto Arroyo (115) Robert Breen (120)

1974 Satan’s Hills David Whited (123) Big Latch

Bold Clarion 1:43 ft nk

Crimson King Farm Peter W. Salmen Jr. R.J. Campbell (113) Howard Grant (120)

1973 Our Native (3rd) Don Brumfield (123) dq-Starkers Mr. Prospector 1:42 4/5 ft nk

Mrs. M.J. Prichard and William Resseguet Jr. Danny Gargan (120) Walter Blum (115)

William Resseguet Jr. Starkersdisqualifiedfromfirstandplacedsecond.

1937 Co-Sport* Porter Roberts (117) Employer Fairflax 1:12 4/5 ft 3

Bert Friend R.T. Runnels Robert Dotter (117) Earl Pool (117) 1936 White Tie* Joseph Cowley (117) Quincy Proph 1:12

Manhasset Stable John M. Gaver Robert Dotter (117) Charles Landolt (117)

*Winningfavorite.

Runat 6furlongsfor2-year-oldsin1936-37.Runashandicaprace for3-year-oldsandup at 11/4milesfrom1938-1941.

Listed,1984-1985;Grade3,1986-1987and2011-present;Grade2,1988-2010.

RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014.

BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnot holda 2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisrace was not run in2020.

FanDuel Limestone Stakes (G3)

SponsoredbyFanDuel

7th Running • Spring • 5 1/2 furlongs (turf) • 3-year-old fillies

Keeneland debuted the Limestone, a 5½-furlong turf race for 3-year-old fillies, during the 2019 Spring Meet. FanDuel (formerly TVG) began to sponsor the race in 2020.

Milestones – Limestone Stakes

2025 Purse: $300,000

Stakes Record: 1:02.29, Tobys Heart, 2021

Largest Straight Payoff: $18.20, Ruthin (GB), 2022

Smallest Straight Payoff: $3.98, Hot Beach, 2024

Largest Field: 12, 2019; 2025

Smallest Field: 8, 2021; 2022; 2024

Largest Value to Winner: $169,725, Shisospicy, 2025

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Limestone Stakes History

Keeneland sales graduate Shisospicy won the FanDuel Limestone as the 2-1 favorite. Shisospicy was named the year’s champion female sprinter.

2025 Shisospicy* Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Dreamaway Abientot 1:03.94 gd 1/2

Morplay Racing (Josh Mendez) Jose D’Angelo John Velazquez (120) Dylan Davis (120)

2024 Hot Beach* Jose Ortiz (118) Zoe’s Prime Kodiac Wintergreen (IRE) 1:05.70 sy 4

Boardshorts Stables Brian Lynch Tyler Gaffalione (118) Luis Saez (118) (Travis Boersma)

2023 Love Reigns (IRE)*

Stonestreet Stables Wesley A. Ward John Velazquez (120) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) (Barbara Banke)

Joel Rosario (120) Lady Hollywood (GB) My Sweet Affair 1:02.45 fm 1/2

2022 Ruthin (GB) John Velazquez (118) Derrynane Her World (IRE) 1:03.33 gd nk

Stonestreet Stables Wesley A. Ward Joel Rosario (120) Irad Ortiz Jr. (120) (Barbara Banke)

2021 Tobys Heart*

Terry Hamilton, Brian A. Lynch, Brian A. Lynch Florent Geroux (118) Julien Leparoux (118) and Gary Barber

2020 Not run

Javier Castellano (118) Goin’ Good Navratilova 1:02.29 gd 1/2

2019 Ginger Nut (IRE) Joel Rosario (118) Stillwater Cove Chelsea Cloisters 1:03.53 gd 1 1/4 Hronis Racing (Kosta Hronis) John W. Sadler John Velazquez (118) Tyler Gaffalione (118)

*Winningfavorite. Listed, 2022-2025. Grade 3, 2026. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keeneland did not hold a 2020 Spring Meet but conducted a five-day Summer Meet from July 8-12. This race was not run in 2020. Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

ResoluteRacing Madison Stakes (G1)

SponsoredbyResoluteRacing

25th Running • Spring • 7 furlongs • 4-year-olds and up • fillies and mares

The race is named for Madison County, the largest county in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Established in 1786, the county was named for James Madison, who later became the fourth President of the United States. The county seat is Richmond, home of Eastern Kentucky University. Resolute Racing began sponsoring the Madison in 2024.

Milestones – Madison Stakes

2025 Purse: $650,000 Stakes Record: 1:21.32, Dr. Zic, 2010

Largest Straight Payoff: $37.60, Last Full Measure, 2013

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.74, Goodnight Olive, 2023

Largest Field: 11, 2008

Smallest Field: 4, 2003

Largest Value to Winner: $397,963, Positano Sunset, 2025

Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.) –Informed Decision, 2009

Beal, Richard T. and Lana Ramsey –Ema Bovary (CHI), 2004

Bradley, Fred F., William B. Bradley, Carl Hurst and Brent Burns –Groupie Doll, 2012

Carl R. Moore Management –Finley’sluckycharm, 2018

Conover, Lucille and George Bolton –A New Twist, 2003

Darley Stable (Mohammed Al Maktoum) –Dubai Escapade, 2006

Derby Lane Farm (Roger D. McDaniel), James D. Tom, Marette Farrell and Joan Scott – Dr. Zic, 2010

Arnold II, George R. – Victory Ride, 2002

Bradley, William B. – Groupie Doll, 2012

Brinkman, Brett A. – Alva Starr, 2024

Brothers, Frank L. – Madcap Escapade, 2005

Brown, Chad C. – Paulassilverling, 2017; Guarana, 2020; Goodnight Olive, 2023

Calhoun, W. Bret – Finley’sluckycharm, 2018

Cox, Brad H. – Just One Time, 2022

Alvarado, Junior – Princess Violet, 2015

Bailey, Jerry – Madcap Escapade, 2005

Bravo, Joe – Sheer Drama, 2016

Castellano, Javier – Spiced Perfection, 2019

Day, Pat – A New Twist, 2003

Desormeaux, Kent – Dr. Zic, 2010

Gaffalione, Tyler – Alva Starr, 2024

Gomez, Garrett – Ventura, 2008;

Owners – Madison Stakes

First Row Partners (Steve Laymon) and Team Hanley (Jay Hanley) – Goodnight Olive, 2023

Galvin, Fergus – Mary Delaney, 2007

Humphrey Jr., G. Watts and Louise I. Humphrey – Victory Ride, 2002

Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah) –Ventura, 2008; Paulassilverlining, 2017

Ladner, P. Dale – Alva Starr, 2024

Lunsford, W. Bruce – Madcap Escapade, 2005

Pantofel Stable (Len Schleifer), Wachtel Stable (Adam Wachtel) and Peter Deutsch –Spiced Perfection, 2019

Queen, Harold L. – Sheer Drama, 2016

Schwartz, Barry K. – Princess Violet, 2015

Trainers – Madison Stakes

Fawkes, David – Sheer Drama, 2016

Frankel, Robert J. – Ventura, 2008

Harty, Eoin – Dubai Escapade, 2006

Kenneally, Eddie – Mary Delaney, 2007

Kimmel, John C. – A New Twist, 2003

Miller, Peter – Spiced Perfection, 2019

Oliver, Philip J. – Last Full Measure, 2013

Rice, Linda – Princess Violet, 2015

Jockeys – Madison Stakes

Shotgun Gulch, 2011

Gonzalez, Roberto M. – Ema Bovary (CHI), 2004

Hernandez Jr., Brian – Finley’sluckycharm, 2018

Leparoux, Julien – Positano Sunset, 2025

Maragh, Rajiv – Groupie Doll, 2012

Nakatani, Corey – Last Full Measure, 2013

Ortiz Jr., Irad – Goodnight Olive, 2023

Six Column Stables (Brad Stephens), Randall L. Bloch, John Seiler and David Hall –Positano Sunset, 2025

St. George Farm Racing (Ian Banwell) – Last Full Measure, 2013

Ten Broeck Farm (David Mowat) – Kimari, 2021

Three Chimneys Farm (Goncalo B. Torrealba) and Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings (John G. Sikura) – Guarana, 2020

Trout, C.R. – Shotgun Gulch, 2011

Ward, Wesley A. – Judy the Beauty, 2014

Warriors Reward (Donald Brown) and Commonwealth New Era Racing (Todd Mostoller) – Just One Time, 2022

Ross, Larry D. – Ema Bovary (CHI), 2004

Scott, Joan – Dr. Zic, 2010

Sheppard, Jonathan E. – Informed Decision, 2009

Trout, C.R. – Shotgun Gulch, 2011

Ward, Wesley A. – Judy the Beauty, 2014; Kimari, 2021

Wilkes, Ian R. – Positano Sunset, 2025

Ortiz, Jose – Paulassilverlining, 2017; Guarana, 2020

Prado, Edgar – Victory Ride, 2002; Dubai Escapade, 2006; Mary Delaney, 2007

Prat, Flavien – Just One Time, 2022

Rosario, Joel – Kimari, 2021

Velazquez, John – Informed Decision, 2009; Judy the Beauty, 2014

Madison Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Positano Sunset (5) Julien Leparoux (123) Emery (4) My Mane Squeeze (4) 1:23.39 ft 1

Six Column Stables (Brad Ian R. Wilkes Flavien Prat (123) Manuel Franco (123) Stephens), Randall L. Bloch, John Seiler and David Hall

2024 Alva Starr* (4) Tyler Gaffalione (123) Vahva (4) Red Carpet Ready (4) 1:23.36 ft 1/2

P. Dale Ladner Brett A. Brinkman Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) Luis Saez (123) 2023 Goodnight Olive* (5) Irad Otiz Jr. (123) Maryquitecontrary (4) Society (4) 1:23.12 ft 1

First Row Partners (Steve Laymon) Chad C. Brown Luca Panici (123) Florent Geroux (123) and Team Hanley (Jay Hanley)

2022 Just One Time* (4) Flavien Prat (123) Bell’s the One (6) Kimari (5) 1:22.79 my 3/4

Warriors Reward (Donald Brown) Brad H. Cox Corey Lanerie (123) Tyler Gaffalione (123) and Commonwealth New Era Racing (Todd Mostoller)

2021 Kimari (4)* Joel Rosario (118) dh-Estilo Talentoso (4)/Bell’s the One (5) 1:21.53 ft 3/4

Ten Broeck Farm (David Mowat) Wesley A. Ward Paco Lopez (118)/Corey Lanerie (120)

2020 Guarana* (4) Jose Ortiz (118) Mia Mischief (5) Bell’s the One (4) 1:21.70 ft 1/2

Three Chimneys Farm (Goncalo B. Chad C. Brown Ricardo Santana Jr. (118) Corey Lanerie (120)

Torrealba) and Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings (John G. Sikura)

2019 Spiced Perfection (4) Javier Castellano (123) Amy’s Challenge (4) Late Night Pow Wow (4) 1:23.49 ft nk

Pantofel Stable (Len Schleifer), Peter Miller Alex Canchari (118) Luis Saez (118)

Wachtel Stable (Adam Wachtel)

and Peter Deutsch

2018 Finley’sluckycharm (5) Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Miss Sunset (4) Lewis Bay (5) 1:22.82 ft no

Carl R. Moore Management W. Bret Calhoun Julien Leparoux (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118)

2017 Paulassilverlining* (5) Jose Ortiz (118) Constellation (4) Paid Up Subscriber (5) 1:23.68 ft nk Juddmonte Farms (Khalid Abdullah) Chad C. Brown David Flores (123) Joel Rosario (118)

2016 Sheer Drama (6) Joe Bravo (118) Stopchargingmaria (5) Wavell Avenue (5) 1:22.07 ft nk

Harold L. Queen David Fawkes Javier Castellano (120) Julien Leparoux (123)

2015 Princess Violet (4) Junior Alvarado (118) Stopchargingmaria (4) Clearly Confused (5) 1:22.73 ft 1/2

Barry K. Schwartz Linda Rice John Velazquez (118) Julien Leparoux (118)

2014 Judy the Beauty* (5) John Velazquez (120) Better Lucky (5) Apropos (5) 1:22.86 ft 2 1/2

Wesley A. Ward Wesley A. Ward Javier Castellano (120) Shaun Bridgmohan (120) Polytrack

2013 Last Full Measure (5) Corey Nakatani (118) Byrama (GB) (4) Jamaican Smoke (4) 1:23.32 ft nk

St. George Farm Racing Philip J. Oliver Joel Rosario (118) Julien Leparoux (118) Polytrack

(Ian Banwell)

2012 Groupie Doll (4) Rajiv Maragh (118) She’s Cheeky (7) Ariana D (6) 1:23.76 ft 3 Fred F. Bradley, William B. Bradley, William B. Bradley Robby Albarado (118) Jose Lezcano (118) Polytrack Carl Hurst and Brent Burns

2011 Shotgun Gulch (4) Garrett Gomez (117) Amen Hallelujah (4) Dr. Zic (5) 1:24.14 ft hd

C.R. Trout C.R. Trout John R. Velazquez (117) Corey J. Lanerie (117) Polytrack

2010 Dr. Zic (4) Kent Desormeaux (117) Dubai Majesty (5) Informed Decision (5) 1:21.32 ft 2 1/2

Derby Lane Farm (Roger D. and Joan Scott Jamie Theriot (118) Julien Leparoux (123) Polytrack Beth McDaniel), James D. Tom, Marette Farrell and Joan Scott

2009 Informed Decision (4) John Velazquez (121) Ventura (5) Bear Now (5) 1:21.64 ft hd Augustin Stable Jonathan E. Sheppard Garrett Gomez (123) Jamie Theriot (117) Polytrack (George Strawbridge Jr.)

2008 Ventura (4) Garrett Gomez (117) Street Sounds (4) Dawn After Dawn (4) 1:22.06 ft 1 Juddmonte Farms Robert J. Frankel Jose Lezcano (117) Robby Albarado (123) Polytrack (Khalid Abdullah)

2007 Mary Delaney* (4) Edgar Prado (117) Ginger Punch (4) Leah’s Secret (4) 1:22.24 ft 1 1/2

Fergus Galvin Eddie Kenneally Rafael Bejarano (117) Mark Guidry (117) Polytrack

2006 Dubai Escapade* (4) Edgar Prado (117) Josh’s Madelyn (5) Ever Elusive (4) 1:22.34 ft 4 3/4

Darley Stable Eoin Harty Terry Thompson (117) John Velazquez (117) (Mohammed Al Maktoum)

2005 Madcap Escapade* (4) Jerry Bailey (123) My Trusty Cat (5) Molto Vita (5) 1:23.33 my 4 3/4

W. Bruce Lunsford Frank L. Brothers John Velazquez (117) Rafael Bejarano (119)

2004 Ema Bovary (CHI) (5) Roberto M. Gonzalez (120) Harmony Lodge (6) Yell (4) 1:23.41 ft 2 1/4

Richard T. Beal and Lana Ramsey Larry D. Ross Richard Migliore (123) Pat Day (116)

2003 A New Twist (4) Pat Day (116) Flaxen Flyer (4) Forest Secrets (5) 1:24.32 sy 1 1/2 Lucille Conover John C. Kimmel Daniel Coa (116) Edgar Prado (116) and George Bolton

2002 Victory Ride* (4) Edgar Prado (116) Celtic Melody (4) Away (5) 1:23.70 ft 1 G. Watts Humphrey Jr. George R. Arnold II Mark Guidry (116) Jorge Chavez (116) and Louise I. Humphrey

*Winningfavorite. Grade3,2005;Grade2,2006-2008;Grade1,2009-present. RunonPolytrackfrom2007-2014. BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnot holda 2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisrace was runduringthe SummerMeet.

Maker’s Mark Mile (G1)

SponsoredbyMaker’sMark

38th Running • Spring • 1 mile (turf) • 4-year-olds and up

Maker’s Mark, the world-famous bourbon distillery headquartered in Loretto, Ky., has sponsored the race since 1997.

Milestones – Maker’s Mark Mile

2025 Purse: $650,000

Stakes Record: 1:33.46, Chez Pierre (FR), 2023

Largest Straight Payoff: $55.80, First and Only, 1994

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.80, Wise Dan, 2013; Wise Dan, 2014

Largest Field: 11, 2017

Smallest Field: 5, 2013

Largest Value to Winner: $358,050, Shirl’s Speight, 2022

Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 230.)

Barber, Gary – Jack Milton, 2015; War of Will, 2020

Brant, Peter M. – Raging Bull (FR), 2021 Circle E Racing (Lee Einsidler) –Mr. Sidney, 2009

Claiborne Farm (Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.) –Conserve, 2000

DeMarco, Julian and Richard DiSano –North East Bound, 2001

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds (Robert J. Edwards Jr.) – Carl Spackler (IRE), 2025

Farish, William S. – Dove Hunt, 1995

Fink, Morton – Wise Dan, 2013; Wise Dan, 2014

Fipke, Charles E. – Perfect Soul (IRE), 2004; Shirl’s Speight, 2022

Gainsborough Farm (Maktoum Al Maktoum) – Soviet Line (IRE), 1999; Touch of the Blues (FR), 2002

Godolphin (Mohammed Al Maktoum et al) –Master of The Seas (IRE), 2024 Green Lantern Stables (Richard D. Masson) – Karelian, 2010

Amoss, Thomas M. – Royal Spy, 2003

Appleby, Charles – Master of The Seas (IRE), 2024

Arnold II, George R. – Karelian, 2010

Attfield, Roger – Shudanz, 1992; Perfect Soul (IRE), 2004; Shirl’s Speight, 2022

Bindner Jr., Walter M. – First and Only, 1994

Brothers, Frank L. – Conserve, 2000

Brown, Chad C. – Raging Bull (FR), 2021; Carl Spackler (IRE), 2025

Bush, Thomas M. – Get Stormy, 2011

Carroll, Henry L. – Yankee Affair, 1989

Casse, Mark E. – War of Will, 2020

Carl Spackler (IRE) dominated the Maker’s Mark Mile (G1), winning by a stakes-record 5 lengths. He joined Wise Dan (2012-2013) and Perfect Soul (IRE) (2003-2004) as the only horses to win the Turf Mile (G1) during the Fall Meet and come back the following April to win the Maker’s Mark Mile. Owner e Five Racing Thoroughbreds earned a Keeneland Tray to recognize its eighth graded stakes win here as part of the track’s Milestone Trophy Program.

Owners – Maker’s Mark Mile

Hamilton, Terry – Heart to Heart, 2018

IEAH Stables (Michael A. Iavarone), Dan Borislow, and Andrew Cohen et al –Kip Deville, 2007

IEAH Stables (Michael A. Iavarone), Pegasus Holding Group Stables, J. Roberts and A. and S. Cohen – Kip Deville, 2008

Janney III, Stuart S. – Data Link, 2012

Jayaraman, V.D. and K.K. – Royal Spy, 2003

Ju Ju Gen Stable (J.A. Garsman, Martin Scheinman and Henry L. Carroll) –Yankee Affair, 1989

King Caledon Farms (Scott Abbott and John Haney) – Charlie Barley, 1990

Kinghaven Farms and R. Richardson –Shudanz, 1992

Kumble, Richard and Michael Becker –Influent, 1997

Lael Stables (Roy Jackson) –Chez Pierre (FR), 2023

Trainers – Maker’s Mark Mile

Delacour, Arnaud – Chez Pierre (FR), 2023

Drysdale, Neil D. – Touch of the Blues (FR), 2002

Dutrow Jr., Richard E. – Kip Deville, 2007, 2008

Hennig, Mark A. – Soviet Line (IRE), 1999

Howard, Neil J. – Dove Hunt, 1995

Jerkens, James A. – Artie Schiller, 2005; Delta Prince, 2019

LoPresti, Charles – Wise Dan, 2013; Wise Dan, 2014

Lundy, Richard J. – Opening Verse, 1991

Lynch, Brian A. – Heart to Heart, 2018

Live Oak Plantation (Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber) – Miesque’s Approval, 2006

Monroe, Roy K. – Tejano Run, 1996

Paulson, Allen E. – Opening Verse, 1991; Ganges, 1993

Rudd, Mason – First and Only, 1994

Sagamore Farm (Kevin Plank), Allen Rosenblum and The Club Racing (Aaron Jutte) – Miss Temple City, 2016

Stronach Stables (Elfriede and Andrew Stronach) – Delta Prince, 2019

Sullimar Stables (Mary A. Sullivan) –Get Stormy, 2011

Timber Bay Farm (William Entenmann) and Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh – Artie Schiller, 2005

Wimborne Farm (Diane L. Perkins) –Lasting Approval, 1998

WinStar Farm (Kenny Troutt) –American Patriot, 2017

McGaughey III, Claude R. – Data Link, 2012

McPeek, Kenneth – Tejano Run, 1996

Motion, H. Graham – Miss Temple City, 2016

Mott, William I. – Ganges, 1993; Mr. Sidney, 2009

Pearce, Grant – Charlie Barley, 1990

Perkins, Diane L. – Lasting Approval, 1998

Perry, William W. – North East Bound, 2001

Pletcher, Todd A. – Jack Milton, 2015; American Patriot, 2017

Tesher, Howard M. – Influent, 1997

Wolfson, Martin D. – Miesque’s Approval, 2006

Albarado, Robby – Lasting Approval, 1998; Royal Spy, 2003

Bailey, Jerry – Opening Verse, 1991; Ganges, 1993; Tejano Run, 1996

Buick, William – Master of The Seas (IRE), 2024

Castellano, Javier – Get Stormy, 2011; Jack Milton, 2015; American Patriot, 2017; Delta Prince, 2019

Castro, Eddie – Miesque’s Approval, 2006 Desormeaux, Kent – Touch of the Blues (FR), 2002; Mr. Sidney, 2009 Gaffalione, Tyler – War of Will, 2020

Jockeys – Maker’s Mark Mile

Hebert, Tracy – First and Only, 1994

Leparoux, Julien – Karelian, 2010; Heart to Heart, 2018

Lezcano, Jose – Wise Dan, 2013

Ortiz Jr., Irad – Raging Bull (FR), 2021

Perret, Craig – Shudanz, 1992

Platts, Robin – Charlie Barley, 1990

Prado, Edgar – Perfect Soul (IRE), 2004; Artie Schiller, 2005; Kip Deville, 2007 Prat, Flavien – Chez Pierre (FR), 2023; Carl Spackler (IRE), 2025

Maker’s Mark Mile History

Romero, Randy – Yankee Affair, 1989

Saez, Luis – Shirl’s Speight, 2022

Samyn, Jean-Luc – Influent, 1997

Santos, Jose – Dove Hunt, 1995

Sellers, Shane – Conserve, 2000

Solis, Alex – Data Link, 2012

Van Dyke, Drayden – Miss Temple City, 2016 Velasquez, Cornelio – Kip Deville, 2008

Velazquez, John – Soviet Line (IRE), 1999; Wise Dan, 2014

Velez Jr., Jose – North East Bound, 2001

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2025 Carl Spackler (IRE)* (5) Flavien Prat (123)

(5)

e Five Racing Thoroughbreds Chad C. Brown Lanfranco Dettori (123) John Velazquez (123)

(Robert J. Edwards Jr.) 2024 Master of The Seas (IRE) (6) William Buick (123) Naval Power (GB) (4)

(4)

Godolphin Charles Appleby Tyler Gaffalione (123) Lanfranco Dettori (123)

(Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2023 Chez Pierre (FR) (5) Flavien Prat (123) Modern Games (IRE) (4) Up to the Mark (4)

Lael Stables (Roy Jackson) Arnaud Delacour William Buick (123) Irad Ortiz Jr. (123)

2022 Shirl’s Speight (5) Luis Saez (123) Masen (GB) (4) Smooth Like Strait (5) 1:35.93 gd no

Charles E. Fipke Roger L. Attfield Flavien Prat (123) Umberto Rispoli (123)

2021 Raging Bull (FR) (6) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Ride a Comet (6) Sacred Life (FR) (6) 1:33.86 gd 2

Peter M. Brant Chad C. Brown Tyler Gaffalione (118) Javier Castellano (118)

2020 War of Will (4) Tyler Gaffalione (118) Parlor (6) Raging Bull (FR) (5) 1:34.55 fm no

Gary Barber Mark E. Casse Florent Geroux (118) Joel Rosario (123)

2019 Delta Prince* (6) Javier Castellano (118) Clyde’s Image (5) Qurbaan (6) 1:35.97 gd 1 1/2

Stronach Stables James A. Jerkens Albin Jimenez (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) (Elfriede and Andrew Stronach)

2018 Heart to Heart* (7) Julien Leparoux (123) Ballagh Rocks (5) Forge (GB) (5) 1:34.71 fm 1 3/4

Terry Hamilton Brian A. Lynch Luis Saez (118) Joel Rosario (118)

2017 American Patriot (4) Javier Castellano (118) Heart to Heart (6) Conquest Panthera (5) 1:34.70 fm nk

WinStar Farm (Kenny Troutt) Todd A. Pletcher Julien Leparoux (118) Robby Albarado (118)

2016 f-Miss Temple City (4) Drayden Van Dyke (113) Heart to Heart (5) Tourist (5) 1:34.09 fm 1 1/4 The Club Racing (Aaron Jutte), H. Graham Motion Julien Leparoux (120) Jose Lezcano (118) Haggin Course

Allen Rosenblum and Sagamore Farm (Kevin Plank)

2015 Jack Milton (5) Javier Castellano (118) Aripeka (5) Long On Value (4) 1:36.30 sf 2 1/4

Gary Barber Todd A. Pletcher Julien Leparoux (118) Joel Rosario (120) Haggin Course

2014 Wise Dan* (7) John Velazquez (123) Kaigun (4) Lochte (4) 1:34.91 fm 3/4

Morton Fink Charles LoPresti Alan Garcia (118) Orlando Bocachica (120) Haggin Course

2013 Wise Dan* (6) Jose Lezcano (123) Data Link (5) Mr. Commons (5) 1:36.37 fm 1

Morton Fink Charles LoPresti Javier Castellano (120) Corey Nakatani (118) Haggin Course

2012 Data Link (4) Alex Solis (118) Turallure (5) Doubles Partner (5) 1:34.31 fm nk

Stuart S. Janney III Claude R. McGaughey III Julien Leparoux (120) Javier Castellano (118) Haggin Course

2011 Get Stormy (5) Javier Castellano (119) Workin for Hops (4) Society’s Chairman (8) 1:37.31 gd 2 3/4

Sullimar Stables Thomas M. Bush Rosie Napravnik (119) Jose Lezcano (117) Haggin Course

(Mary A. Sullivan)

2010 Karelian (8)

Julien Leparoux (117) Court Vision (5) Society’s Chairman (7) 1:34.33 fm 1 1/4

Green Lantern Stables George R. Arnold II Robby Albarado (121) Jose Lezcano (117) Haggin Course

(Richard D. Masson)

2009 Mr. Sidney (5) Kent Desormeaux (117) Passager (FR) (6) Just as Well (6) 1:41.84 yl 1/2

Circle E Racing (Lee Einsidler) William I. Mott Edgar Prado (117) Julien Leparoux (117) Haggin Course

2008 Kip Deville* (5) Cornelio Velasquez (123) Einstein (BRZ) (6) Thorn Song (5) 1:36.78 gd 1

IEAH Stables (Michael A. Richard E. Dutrow Jr. Robby Albarado (123) Rafael Bejarano (117) Haggin Course Iavarone), Pegasus Holding Group Stables, J. Roberts, A. and S. Cohen

2007 Kip Deville (4) Edgar Prado (123) Showing Up (4) Purim (5) 1:35.51 fm nk

IEAH Stables (Michael A. Richard E. Dutrow Jr. Cornelio Velasquez (123) Jamie Theriot (117) Haggin Course Iavarone), Dan Borislow, and Andrew Cohen et al

2006 Miesque’s Approval (7) Eddie Castro (117) Artie Schiller (5) Good Reward (5) 1:34.06 fm no Live Oak Plantation Martin D. Wolfson Garrett Gomez (123) Edgar Prado (117) Haggin Course (Mrs. Charlotte C. Weber)

2005 Artie Schiller* (4) Edgar Prado (121) Gulch Approval (5) Good Reward (4) 1:34.09 fm 2 1/4 Timber Bay Farm James A. Jerkens Rafael Bejarano (117) John Velazquez (123) Haggin Course (William Entenmann) and Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh

Maker’s Mark Mile History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2004 Perfect Soul (IRE) (6) Edgar Prado (116) Burning Roma (6)

Royal Spy (6) 1:33.54 fm 1/2

Charles E. Fipke Roger Attfield Jesus Castanon (116) Robby Albarado (116) Haggin Course (NCR)

2003 Royal Spy (5) Robby Albarado (118) Miesque’s Approval (4)

Touch of the Blues (FR) (6) 1:35.82 fm 1 1/4

V.D. and K.K. Jayaraman Thomas M. Amoss Jerry Bailey (118) Kent Desormeaux (117) Haggin Course

2002 Touch of the Blues (FR) (5) Kent Desormeaux (116) Pisces (5)

Boastful (4) 1:35.02 fm 3/4

Gainsborough Farm Neil D. Drysdale Roger Velez (123) Jerry Bailey (116) Haggin Course (Maktoum Al Maktoum)

2001 North East Bound (5) Jose Velez Jr. (120) Brahms (4)

Strategic Mission (6) 1:34.44 fm nk

Julian DeMarco and William W. Perry Pat Day (123) Jerry Bailey (116) Haggin Course

Richard DiSano

2000 Conserve (4) Shane Sellers (116) Marquette (4)

Inkatha (FR) (6) 1:35 fm nk

Claiborne Farm Frank L. Brothers Jerry Bailey (120) Jorge Chavez (116) Haggin Course

(Mrs. A.B. Hancock Jr.)

1999 Soviet Line (IRE) (9) John Velazquez (115) Trail City (6) Rob ‘n Gin (5) 1:35 1/5 fm no

Gainsborough Farm Mark A. Hennig Robby Albarado (115) Joe Bravo (120) Haggin Course

(Maktoum Al Maktoum)

1998 Lasting Approval* (4) Robby Albarado (122) Soviet Line (IRE) (8)

Same Old Wish (8) 1:35 2/5 gd 1 1/2

Wimborne Farm (Diane L. Perkins) Diane L. Perkins Pat Day (113) Joe Bravo (122) Haggin Course

1997 Influent (6) Jean-Luc Samyn (116) Chief Bearheart (4) Foolish Pole (4) 1:34 2/5 fm 1/2

Richard Kumble and Howard M. Tesher Jose Santos (114) Herbert McCauley (113) Haggin Course

Michael Becker

Run as Fort Harrod 1989-1996.

1996 Tejano Run (4) Jerry Bailey (113) Sandpit (BRZ) (7) Dove Hunt (5) 1:35 fm nk

Roy K. Monroe Kenneth McPeek Shane Sellers (116) Pat Day (116) Haggin Course

1995 Dove Hunt (4) Jose Santos (113) Road of War (5) Night Silence (5) 1:35 4/5 ft 1/2

William S. Farish Neil J. Howard Earlie Fires (114) Craig Perret (116) Haggin Course

1994 First and Only (7) Tracy Hebert (116) The Name’s Jimmy (5) Pride of Summer (6) 1:36 3/5 gd nk

Mason Rudd Walter M. Bindner Jr. Craig Perret (113) Mickey Walls (116) Haggin Course

1993 Ganges (5) Jerry Bailey (113) Bidding Proud (4) Rocket Fuel (6) 1:35 2/5 fm 1/2

Allen E. Paulson William I. Mott Earlie Fires (119) Donnie Miller Jr. (114) Haggin Course

1992 Shudanz (4) Craig Perret (114) To Freedom (4) Cudas (4) 1:36 2/5 fm nk

Kinghaven Farms and Roger Attfield Jerry Bailey (113) Patrick Valenzuela (117) Haggin Course

R. Richardson

1991 Opening Verse (5) Jerry Bailey (113) Jalaajel (7)

Buchman (4) 1:36 fm 2 1/4

Allen E. Paulson Richard J. Lundy Dave Penna (113) Ricardo Lopez (113)

1990 Charlie Barley* (4) Robin Platts (119) Known Ranger (4) Careafolie (IRE) (5) 1:35 4/5 fm 1

King Caledon Farms Grant Pearce Jerry Bailey (113) Pat Day (113) (Scott Abbott and John Haney)

1989 Yankee Affair* (7) Randy Romero (119) Jalaajel (5)

Pollenate (5) 1:43 3/5 fm no

Ju Ju Gen Stable Henry L. Carroll Jacinto Vasquez (114) Don Brumfield (114)

(J.A. Garsman, Martin Scheinman and Henry L. Carroll)

*Winningfavorite. f-filly.

Runat about11/16mileson theturfin1989;1mileon theturffrom1990-present.

Listed,1989-1990;Grade3,1991-1999;Grade2,2000-2007;Grade1,2008-present.

Knownas Maker’s46Milefrom2012-2019.

BecauseoftheCOVID-19pandemic,Keenelanddidnot holda 2020SpringMeetbutconductedafive-daySummerMeetfromJuly8-12.Thisrace was runduringthe

SummerMeet.

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Perryville Stakes (G3)

19th Running • Fall • 7 furlongs • 3-year-olds

The Perryville is named for the Civil War battle that occurred about an hour southwest of Lexington. Inaugurated at Keeneland in 1999, the race for 3-year-olds was run at about 7 furlongs from 1999-2002 and at 6 furlongs in 2015 and 2020. The 2015 and 2020 renewals were held on the undercard of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Since 2021, the Perryville has been run at 7 furlongs.

Milestones – Perryville Stakes

2025 Purse: $350,000 Stakes Record: 1.22.80, Brunacini, 2024

Largest Straight Payoff: $26, Steve’s Double, 2007

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.20, Nashville, 2020

Largest Field: 11, 2006

Smallest Field: 5, 2001

Largest Value to Winner: $217,000, Barnes, 2025

Perryville Stakes History

2025 Barnes Jose Ortiz (123) Captain Cook

Zedan Racing Stables Bob A. Baffert Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Luis Saez (118) (Amr F. Zedan)

2024 Brunacini Luan Machado (118) Book’em Danno

Emilie Fojan Matthew P. Sims Irad Ortiz Jr. (123) Junior Alvarado (118) dh-Epic Ride Edgar Morales (118)

2023 Raise Cain Luis Saez (118) Dr. Venkman Post Time 1:23.58 ft hd

Andrew N. Warren and Ben Colebrook John Velazquez (118) Sheldon Russell (118) Raina Warren

2022 Gunite* Tyler Gaffalione (122) Hoist the Gold B

Winchell Thoroughbreds Steven M. Asmussen Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Joel Rosario (118) (Ron Winchell)

2021 He’smyhoneybadger Florent Geroux (118) Ram Pipeline 1:23.75 ft hd Steve Landers Racing Brad H. Cox Rafael Bejarano (118) John Velazquez (118) (Steve Landers)

2020 Nashville* Ricardo Santana Jr. (118) Wild Wes Little Menace 1:07.89 ft 3 1/2

CHC INC. (Ah Khing Teo) and Steven M. Asmussen Mitchell Murrill (118) Tyler Gaffalione (120) (NTR)

WinStar Farm (Kenny Troutt)

2015 Hebbronville Joe Bravo (122) Bayerd Lewys Vaporizer 1:09.78 ft 1/2

Choctaw Racing Stable (Perry Lynn S. Whiting Ricardo Santana Jr. (118) Irad Ortiz Jr. (118) Sutherland), Winning Horses Stable (Frank Arnold Jr.) and Scott Galloway

2009 El Brujo

Edgar Prado (121) Not for Silver Conchacer 1:25.95 ft 1 1/4

Windways Farm (Jeff Begg) Malcolm Pierce Jeremy Rose (121) James Graham (117) Polytrack

2008 Hatta Fort (GB)

Julien Leparoux (117) Amazing Results I’m So Lucky 1:25.97 ft nk

Godolphin Racing Inc. Saeed bin Suroor Rene Douglas (117) Robby Albarado (117) Polytrack

(Mohammed Al Maktoum et al)

2007 Steve’s Double

Jamie Theriot (117) Les Grands Trois Shrewd Operator 1:25.36 ft 1/2

Oxbow Racing (Art Preston) Ronny W. Werner Kent Desormeaux (117) Robby Albarado (117) Polytrack

2006 Midnight Lute

Victor Espinoza (117) Lewis Michael Court Folly 1:24.38 ft 4 3/4

Watson and Weitman Bob A. Baffert Rene Douglas (117) Calvin Borel (123) Polytrack

Performances (Karl Watson and Paul Weitman) and Mike Pegram

2005 Vicarage

John Velazquez (120) Straight Line Social Probation 1:26.06 ft 10 Dogwood Stable Todd A. Pletcher Shaun Bridgmohan (123) Calvin Borel (117) (W. Cothran Campbell)

2004 Commentator Rafael Bejarano (117) Eurosilver Weigelia 1:25.19 my 7

Tracy Farmer Nicholas P. Zito Javier Castellano (123) Robby Albarado (123)

2003 Clock Stopper* Robby Albarado (117) Ballado Chieftain Champali 1:25.33 ft 2

Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young) Dallas Stewart John McKee (117) Pat Day (123)

Perryville Stakes History

Year Winner/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2002 Najran*

Pat Day (118) Flying Free

Premier Performer 1:26.00 my 9 1/4 Buckram Oak Farm Nicholas P. Zito Kent Desormeaux (118) Tony D’Amico (118)

(Monsour Fustok)

2001 Dream Run

Pat Day (118) Strawberry Affair Solingen 1:27.25 ft 5 1/2

John D. Murphy Paul J. McGee Jon Court (118) Robby Albarado (120)

2000 Smokin Pete Shane Sellers (118) Classic Appeal Chervy 1:25 1/5 ft hd C.P.C. Racing (Carl P. Cullotta) James P. DiVito Carlos Silva (120) Lonnie Meche (118)

1999 National Saint Robby Albarado (118) Moon Over Prospect Hidden City 1:25 1/5 ft 5

Charles F. Heider Jr. Bob A. Baffert Calvin Borel (118) Pat Day (120)

*Winningfavorite. dh-deadheat. Grade3,2005-2009,2024. Listed,2004and2023. Runat about7furlongs,1999-2002. Runat 6furlongs,2015,2020. Runat 7furlongs,2021-present.The2015and2020runningswere heldon theundercardoftheBreeders’CupWorldChampionships.

Kentucky Derby Winners at Keeneland after the Derby

Horse Year of Derby Win Date

Kee Race Finish Whirlaway 1941 4/9/42 Phoenix 2nd 4/15/42 handicap 2nd

Decidedly 1962 4/20/63 Ben Ali Won Dust Commander 1970 10/10/70 Fayette 2nd

Unbridled 1990 10/6/91 Fayette (G2) 2nd Go for Gin 1994 4/7/95 allowance 2nd

American Pharoah 2015 10/31/05 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) Won Authentic 2020 11/7/2022 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) Won

StollKeenonOgden Phoenix Stakes (G2)

SponsoredbyStollKeenonOgdenPLLC

174th Running • Fall • 6 furlongs • 3-year-olds and up

The Phoenix is the oldest stakes race in the U.S., dating back to 1831 at the Kentucky Association track in Lexington. Originally named for the old Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, the race has been known as the Brennan, Chiles, Phoenix, Association, Phoenix Hotel Stakes and Phoenix Handicap. Last run at the Association track in 1930, the Phoenix was revived at Keeneland in the spring of 1937. From 1943-1945, the Phoenix was renewed as part of the Keeneland-at-Churchill Downs meetings. Prior to 1989, the Phoenix was run during the Spring Meet. Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, the only legal counsel Keeneland has had, became the sponsor in 2011.

Milestones – Phoenix Stakes

2025 Purse: $400,000

Stakes Record: 1:07 3/5, Anjiz, 1993

Largest Straight Payoff: $66.40, Court Affair, 1960

Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.40, Coaltown, 1948

Largest Field: 13, 1947; 1977; 1982

Smallest Field: 4, 1945

Largest Value to Winner: $244,900, Nakatomi, 2025

Winning Fillies or Mares: Miss Dogwood (4), 1943; Roman Sox (4), 1944; Miss Neal (5), 1949; Moccasin (4), 1967; Xtra Heat (4), 2002

After two consecutive second-place finishes in the historic Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G2), Keeneland sales graduate Nakatomi rallied to win in 2025.

Winning 3-Year-Olds: Devil Diver, 1942; Best Effort, 1945; Coaltown, 1948; Hill Gail, 1952; Bandit, 1957; Deposit Ticket, 1991; Wise Dan, 2010; Sum of the Parts, 2012; Runhappy, 2015; Promises Fulfilled, 2018

Highest Weight Carried by Winner: 126, Gallant Bob, 1976

Highest Weight Carried by a Starter: 132, Preeminent, 1938

Phoenix Stakes History

2025 Nakatomi (6)* Irad Ortiz Jr. (121) Durante (6) Whatchatalkinabout (4) 1:09.93 ft nk Qatar Racing (Sheikh Fahad Al Wesley A. Ward Tyler Gaffalione (121) Emisael Jaramillo (121) Thani) and Mrs. Fitriani Hay

2024 Federal Judge (4) Flavien Prat (121) Nakatomi (5) Comedy Town (6) 1:08.20 ft 5 1/2 WinStar Farm (Kenny Troutt) and Brad H. Cox Tyler Gaffalione (125) Drayden Van Dyke (121) Siena Farm (Todd Manganaro)

2023 Hoist the Gold (4) John Velazquez (120) Nakatomi (4) Bango (6) 1:09.13 ft 3/4 Dream Team One Racing Dallas Stewart Irad Ortiz Jr. (120) Tyler Gaffalione (120) Stable (James Culver)

2022 Manny Wah (6) Corey Lanerie (120) Long Range Toddy (6) Top Gunner (5) 1:10.31 ft nk

Susan Moulton Wayne M. Catalano Paco Lopez (120) Reylu Gutierrez (120)

2021 Special Reserve (5) Joel Rosario (120) Aloha West (4) Mucho (5) 1:08.54 ft nk

Paradise Farms Corp. (Peter Michael J. Maker Jose Ortiz (120) Reylu Gutierrez (120) Proscia) and David Staudacher

2020 Diamond Oops* (5) Florent Geroux (122) Empire of Gold (3) Echo Town (3) 1:09.24 ft 3/4

Diamond 100 Racing Club Patrick L. Biancone Declan Carroll (118) Ricardo Santana Jr. (122) (Ivy Hui), Amy E. Dunne, D P Racing

(Deron Pearson) and Patrick L. Biancone Racing (Patrick L. Biancone)

2019 Engage (4) Jose Ortiz (120) Whitmore (6) Lexitonian (3) 1:10.21 ft 1/2

Woodford Racing Steven M. Asmussen Joel Rosario (120) Adam Beschizza (118)

(William S. Farish Jr.)

2018 Promises Fulfilled* (3) Luis Saez (122) Whitmore (5) Limousine Liberal (6) 1:09.05 ft hd

Robert J. Baron Dale L. Romans Ricardo Santana Jr. (124) Jose Ortiz (122)

2017 Whitmore (4) Manuel Franco (122) Awesome Banner (4) Limousine Liberal (5) 1:09.90 ft no

Robert V. LaPenta, Southern Ron Moquett Jose Lezcano (120) Jose Ortiz (122)

Springs Stables (Ron Moquett) and Head of Plains Partners (Sol Kumin)

Phoenix Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

2016 A. P. Indian (6)* Joe Bravo (124) Limousine Liberal (4)

Ami’s Flatter (4) 1:08.43 ft no

Green Lantern Stables Arnaud Delacour Jose Ortiz (120) Florent Geroux (120) (Richard D. Masson)

2015 Runhappy (3)* Edgar Prado (122) Barbados (3)

James McIngvale Maria Borell Luis Saez (120)

2014 Work All Week (5) Florent Geroux (122) C. Zee (3)

Work All Week (6) 1:09.96 sy 1 3/4

Florent Geroux (122)

Bern Identity (4) 1:09.00 wet ft 1 Midwest Thoroughbreds Inc. Roger Brueggemann Luis Saez (118) Paco Lopez (122)

2013 Sum of the Parts (4) Leandro Goncalves (120) Laugh Track (4)

Go Blue Or Go Home (4) 1:09.56 ft 1 1/4

Klaravich Stables Inc. Tom Amoss Miguel Mena (122) Paco Lopez (122) Polytrack

and William H. Lawrence

2012 Sum of the Parts (3) Julien Leparoux (120) Noble’s Promise (5)

Laurie’s Rocket (3) 1:09.88 ft 1 1/4

Klaravich Stables Inc. Tom Amoss David Cohen (120) Rajiv Maragh (118) Polytrack and William H. Lawrence

2011 Hoofit (NZ) (4) Edgar Prado (118) Aikenite (4)

Hamazing Destiny (5) 1:09.27 ft no

Mrs. S.K. Johnston Jr. H. Graham Motion John R. Velazquez (122) Robby Albarado (118) Polytrack

2010 Wise Dan (3) Rafael Bejarano (116) Hollywood Hit (4) Warrior’s Reward (4) 1:09.20 ft 1/2

Morton Fink Charles LoPresti James McAleney (122) Julien R. Leparoux (124) Polytrack

2009 Fatal Bullet* (4) Eurico Da Silva (118) Capt. Candyman Can (3) Ez Dreamer (4) 1:09.00 ft 1/2

Bear Stables Ltd (Danny Dion) Reade Baker Javier Castellano (122) Julien Leparoux (118) Polytrack

2008 Sing Baby Sing (5) Justin Shepherd (118) Talent Search (5) Carnacks Choice (4) 1:08.48 ft 3/4

Tom R. Durant Jack A. Bruner Rafael Bejarano (118) Rene Douglas (118) Polytrack

2007 Off Duty (4) Larry Melancon (118) Rebellion (GB) (4) Saint Anddan (5) 1:10.17 ft 1/2

John Pucek, Brett Setzer, Lynn Whiting Ramon Dominguez (118) Rafael Bejarano (122) Polytrack

Robert Edwards and David Fogg

2006 Kelly’s Landing (5) Rafael Bejarano (118) Areyoutalkintome (5) Level Playingfield (5) 1:09.94 ft 1

Summerplace Farm Eddie Kenneally Victor Espinoza (118) John McKee (118) Polytrack (John Lally)

2005 Elusive Jazz (4) Robby Albarado (118) Wild Tale (4) Premium Saltine (6) 1:11.60 ft 3

Stony Oak Farm Bobby C. Barnett Mark Guidry (118) Corey Lanerie (118) (G. James Phelps)

2004 Champali (4) Rafael Bejarano (122) Gold Storm (4) Clock Stopper (4) 1:08.72 ft 3/4

Lloyd Madison Farms IV Gregory D. Foley Larry Taylor (118) Pat Day (118) (Fred Schwartz et al)

2003 Najran (4) Javier Castellano (122) Ethan Man (4) Take Achance On Me (5) 1:08.32 ft 1 1/2

Buckram Oak Farm Nicholas P. Zito Rene Douglas (118) Cornelio Velasquez (118)

(Monsour Fustok)

2002 f-Xtra Heat* (4) Harry Vega (123) Day Trader (3) Touch Tone (4) 1:10.13 ft 3

Kenneth Taylor et al John E. Salzman Sr. Calvin Borel (120) Robby Albarado (119)

2001 Bet On Sunshine (9) Calvin Borel (123) Robin de Nest (4) Erlton (5) 1:09.65 ft 1 3/4

David P. Holloway Racing Paul J. McGee Jon Court (121) Craig Perret (119)

Inc. (David P. Holloway)

2000 Five Star Day (4) Garrett Gomez (119) Istintaj (4) Bet On Sunshine (8)

Columbine Stable C. Beau Greely Marlon St. Julien (118) Francisco Torres (123) (Andrea S. Pollack)

and Kitchwa Stables (John Greely IV)

1999 Richter Scale (5) Kent Desormeaux (117) Bet On Sunshine (7) Vicar (3)

Nancy and Rick Kaster Mary Jo Lohmeier Robby Albarado (117) Pat Day (121)

and Nathan Fox

1998 Partner’s Hero (4) Calvin Borel (117) Pyramid Peak (6)

Horton Stable (Willis Horton) D. Wayne Lukas Robby Albarado (117) Willie Martinez (123)

1997 Bet On Sunshine* (5) Francisco Torres (122) Receiver (4) Valid Expectations (4)

David P. Holloway Racing Inc. Paul J. McGee Robby Albarado (117) Shane Sellers (117)

1996 Forest Wildcat* (5) Joe Bravo (121) Valid Expectations (3) Bet On Sunshine (4) 1:09 2/5 ft 1

Fred Seitz and New Farm Benjamin Perkins Sr. Don Pettinger (119) Jose Valdivia Jr. (115) (Everett Novak)

1995 Golden Gear* (4) Craig Perret (124) Hello Paradise (4) Mississippi Chat (3) 1:08 4/5 sy 7 1/2

Barry Golden P. Noel Hickey Shane Sellers (115) Kenneth Bourque (113)

1994 Lost Pan (4) Donna Barton (114) Pacific West (4) Fort Chaffee (4) 1:09 2/5 my 3 1/2

Jim McDonald and Overbrook D. Wayne Lukas Shane Sellers (116) Pat Day (119)

Farm (W.T. Young) et al

1993 Anjiz (5) Donnie Miller Jr. (114) Gold Spring (ARG) (5) Friendly Lover (5) 1:07 3/5 ft 2 1/2

Gainsborough Farm Michael H. Bell Pat Day (124) Fabio Arguello Jr. (121) (NTR) (Maktoum Al Maktoum)

1992 British Banker (4) Dean Kutz (114) Megas Vukefalos (4) Binalong (3) 1:09 1/5 my no

Dogwood Stable Peter M. Vestal Todd Kabel (124) Kerwin Clark (113) (W. Cothran Campbell)

Phoenix Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1991 Deposit Ticket* (3) Pat Day (114) Tom Cobbley (5) Hammocker (7) 1:10 1/5 my 2

Overbrook Farm (W.T. Young) D. Wayne Lukas James Bruin (112) Ricardo Lopez (111)

and D. Wayne Lukas

1990 Hadif (4)

Dave Penna (120)= Fighting Fantasy (3) Raise a Tradition (4) 1:09 2/5 ft 3/4

Shadwell Farm Thomas J. Skiffington Joe Deegan (115) Dean Kutz (114)

(Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum)

1989 Momsfurrari (5) Mike Smith (114) Hammocker (5) Irish Open (5) 1:10 3/5 my nk

Judy and Philip S. Maas Glenn Wismer Dean Kutz (114) Shane Romero (118)

1988 Carload (6)

Earlie Fires (114) Conquer (4) Carborundum (4) 1:09 4/5 ft 2

Glen Hill Farm (Leonard H. Lavin) Tom Proctor Craig Perret (117) Jacinto Vasquez (117)

1987 Diapason (7)

Patrick Johnson (112) Hail The Ruckus (4) Dr. Koch (5) 1:09 4/5 ft 2

Helen C. Alexander Michael H. Bell Pat Day (116) Larry Melancon (114)

1986 Lucky North (5) Pat Day (115) Clever Wake (4) Fortunate Prospect (5) 1:11 ft no

John Franks William I. Mott Keith Allen (114) Herbert McCauley (121)

1985 Harry ‘N Bill (5) Mary Russ (115) Irish Freeze (4) Diapason (5) 1:09 3/5 ft no

Bee Bee Stable Emanuel Tortora Pat Day (116) Larry Melancon (113)

1984 Timeless Native (4) Don Brumfield (121)= Euathlos (4) Runderbar (4) 1:10 4/5 gd 5 1/2

Hawksworth Farm Grover G. Delp Sam Maple (116) Harvey Puckett (112)

1983 Shot n’ Missed (6) Leroy Moyers (115) Gallant Gentleman (5) m-Excitable Lady (5) 1:09 ft 3 1/2

William F. Lucas William I. Mott Jim McKnight (114) Pat Day (115)

1982 Golden Derby (4) Julio C. Espinoza (115) Shot n’ Missed (5) Aristocratical (5) 1:10 ft no

Frederick E. Lehmann William E. Adams Darrell Haire (117) Terry Lipham (119) and John R. Gaines

1981 Turbulence (5) Julio C. Espinoza (115) Final Tribute (5) It’s a Rerun (5) 1:09 2/5 ft 1/2 (1st) Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Colpitt John Oxley Anthony Rini (114) Michael Morgan (114)

1981 Zuppardo’s Prince (5) Julio C. Espinoza (116) Convenient (5) Done Well (4) 1:09 2/5 ft 1/2 (2nd) Anthony L. Zuppardo Clarence Breedlove Jim McKnight (118) Michael Morgan (116) 1980 Zuppardo’s Prince (4) Julio C. Espinoza (116) Cregan’s Cap (5) Cabrini Green (5) 1:09 2/5 ft 3 3/4 Anthony L. Zuppardo Clarence Breedlove Pat Day (111) Michael Morgan (116)

1979 Shelter Half (4) Sam Boulmetis Jr. (116) Cabrini Green (4) Going Investor (4) 1:09 ft 1 1/2 Fourbrothers Stable Beverly P. Hacker Michael Morgan (118) Julio C. Espinoza (115)

1978 Amadevil (4) Sam Maple (117) It’s Freezing (6) See the U.S.A. (8) 1:09 2/5 ft 3/4 Paul and Orville Kemling Hoss Inman Don Brumfield (121) William Nemeti (118)

1977 It’s Freezing* (5)

Eddie Maple (118) Harbor Springs (4) Dixmart (5) 1:09 3/5 ft 1/2

Bwamazon Farm William R. O’Neill Eddie Delahoussaye (114) Larry Snyder (113)

1976 Gallant Bob* (4)

Don Brumfield (126)= Real Value (4) Amerrico (4) 1:08 2/5 ft 5

Robert P. Horton Joe D. Marquette Robert Breen (120) Joe Imparato (115) (ETR)

1975 Delta Oil (6) Robert Breen (118) Jazziness (5) Hasty Flyer (4) 1:09 2/5 ft 3

Mrs. Joe W. Brown Forrest Kaelin Darrell Brown (117) Heriberto Arroyo (116)

1974 Penholder (5) Buck Thornburg (116) List (6) Grocery List (5) 1:09 2/5 ft nk

Mrs. Irene D. Karr Victor D. Karr Billy Phelps (118) Earlie Fires (118)

1973 Honey Jay* (5) Julio C. Espinoza (123)= Three Martinis (5) Mighty Mackie (4) 1:11 2/5 gd no Robert E. Lehmann Ike K. Mourar Gerland Gallitano (116) Sam Maple (110)

1972 Honey Jay (4) Phil Rubbicco (117) Rio Bravo (6) Great Mystery (5) 1:10 2/5 gd nk (1st) Robert E. Lehmann Ike K. Mourar Louis Spindler (114) Earlie Fires (121)

1972 Tribal Line (4) Ray Broussard (117) Raja Baba (4) Staunch Avenger (4) 1:10 3/5 gd hd (2nd) T.A. and J.E. Grissom H.W. Shadowens Don Brumfield (114) David Whited (119)

1971 Great Mystery (4) Phil I. Grimm (114) Hard Work (4) Royal Comedian (7) 1:08 2/5 ft 7

B.A. Dario Lyle Whiting William Hartack (116) Craig Perret (117) (NTR)

1970 Paderoso (4) Carlos H. Marquez (115) True North (4) Blade (4) 1:10 2/5 ft no

Fred W. Hooper Anthony J. Bardaro Jesse Davidson (113) Don Brumfield (116)

1969 Lithiot (4)

R.J. Campbell (114) T.V. Commercial (4) Judge Kilday (4) 1:10 ft 1 3/4

Michael G. Phipps Del W. Carroll Earlie Fires (117) David Whited (114)

1968 Miracle Hill (4) David Whited (119)= Port Wine (5) Vivolo (4) 1:09 3/5 ft hd

T.A. and J.E. Grissom Dewey Smith Manuel Ycaza (114) Mike Manganello (112)

1967 f-Moccasin (4) Kenny Knapp (114) Country Friend (5) Gilbert B. (5) 1:09 3/5 ft 1

Claiborne Farm Harry Trotsek Don Brumfield (114) William Hartack (114)

1966 Bay Phantom* (4) R.J. Campbell (124)= Big Brigade (5) Valiant Marbo (4) 1:10 ft 2

C.O. Viar Robert Holthus Don Brumfield (117) Earlie Fires (108)

1965 Gallant Romeo (4) Kenny Knapp (110) Alphabet (4) Bully Heart (7) 1:10 ft 2

J. Graham Brown Willard L. Proctor Jimmy Nichols (114) Earl J. Knapp (114)

1964 Choker (4)

Ken Church (113) Cosdave (4) T. Bird (4) 1:08 3/5 ft 4

Louis Lee Haggin II Joe Kramer Howard Grant (119) R.L. Baird (114) (NTR)

1963 Editorialist* (5)

Manuel Ycaza (122)= Gun Glory (4) Times Roman (4) 1:08 3/5 ft hd

Fourth Estate Stable S. Bryant Ott Avelino Gomez (114) Jimmy Nichols (114)

1962 Editorialist* (4) Howard Grant (119)= Run for Nurse (4) Rock Age (5) 1:10 ft 3/4

Fourth Estate Stable S. Bryant Ott Don Brumfield (116) Jimmy Nichols (114)

Phoenix Stakes History

Year Winner/Age/Owner Jockey/Wgt./Trainer 2nd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. 3rd/Age/Jockey/Wgt. Time Margin

1961 Eight Again (4)

Ron Vincifora (114) Careless John (4)

Matthias (4) 1:09 ft 1/2

T.A. Grissom Vester R. Wright Jimmy Nichols (120) John Heckmann (114) (ETR)

1960 Court Affair (4)

Wayne Chambers (110) Dunce (4)

Mrs. Lloyd P. Tate Lloyd P. Tate Herb Hinojosa (118)

1959 Bumpy Road* (4)

William Hartack (113)= Jovial Jove (6)

Shan Pac (6) 1:10 ft 1 3/4

Larry Gilligan (113)

Styrunner (7) 1:10 1/5 sl 3 1/2

Mrs. Irving Gushen Eddie Anspach Larney Hansman (111) Ken Griffith (111)

1958 Ezgo* (4)

William Hartack (116)= Shan Pac (4)

Tommy’s Jet (5) 1:10 3/5 gd 6

L.H. Thompson L.H. Thompson John Heckmann (116) Dave Erb (114)

1957 Bandit (3)

Steve Brooks (112) Sea O Erin (6)

Bernburgoo (4) 1:09 3/5 ft 3/4

Claiborne Farm Moody Jolley William Hartack (119) W.D. Lucas (115)

1956 Sea O Erin* (5)

William Hartack (120)= Scrutinized (6)

(4)

1/2 Hasty House Farm

1955 Sea O Erin (4)

Harry Trotsek Steve Brooks (118)

Johnny Adams (120)= Fair Pilot (5)

Larry Gilligan (115)

Hasty House Farm Harry Trotsek Steve Brooks (112) P.A. Ward (118)

1954 Pomace (5)