Grade III race | |
Location | Turfway Park Florence, Kentucky |
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Inaugurated | 1972 (as Latonia Spiral Stakes) |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Sponsor | Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment (since 2018) |
Website | Turfway Park |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄8 miles |
Surface | Tapeta |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-olds |
Weight | Colts and Geldings 123 lbs Fillies 118 lbs |
Purse | $700,000 (as of 2023) |
The Spiral Stakes (known as the Jeff Ruby Steaks, a homophone of the word Stakes, for commercial reasons)[1] is a Grade III American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at a distance of a one and one-eighth miles on the synthetic track in late March at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky. The event currently offers a purse of $700,000.