Listed Stakes race | |
Location | Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
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Inaugurated | 2006 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website | www.pimlico.com |
Race information | |
Distance | 5 furlongs |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Left-handed |
Qualification | Three-years-old & up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $100,000 |
The Jim McKay Turf Sprint is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and up over a distance of five furlongs on the turf held as part of the undercard for the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes annually during the third week of May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The race offers a purse of $100,000.[1]
The Jim McKay Turf Sprint is the lead off leg of the Mid Atlantic Thoroughbred Championships Sprint Turf Division or MATCh Races. MATCh is a series of five races in five separate thoroughbred divisions run throughout four Mid-Atlantic States including; Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park Racecourse in Maryland; Delaware Park Racetrack in Delaware; Parx, Philadelphia Park and Presque Isle Downs in Pennsylvania and Monmouth Park in New Jersey.