Jefferson Cup Stakes

Jefferson Cup Stakes
Grade III race
LocationChurchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated1977
Race typeThoroughbred – Flat racing
WebsiteChurchill Downs
Race information
Distance1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds
WeightAssigned
Purse$100,000

The Jefferson Cup Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in mid-June near the end of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky. A race on turf, it is open to three-year-old horses of either gender.

For 2010, the purse was dropped from $200,000 to $100,000 and the race was downgraded from a Grade II event at a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs)[1] to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.[2]

Since inception, the Jefferson Cup Stakes has been contested at various distances:

  • 5.5 furlongs : 1977–1981
  • 1+1⁄16 miles : 1982, 2010–2013
  • 1+1⁄8 miles : 1983–2009
  1. ^ The 2009 Jefferson Cup Stakes at Bloodhorse.com
  2. ^ "The 2010 Jefferson Cup Stakes at the NTRA". Archived from the original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2010-06-15.