Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes

Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes
Grade II race
LocationChurchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated1920
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Websitewww.churchilldowns.com
Race information
Distance1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-olds
WeightAssigned
Purse$400,000 (2021)

The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of November at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. A Grade II event, the race is open to two-year-olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt, and is a Road to the Kentucky Derby race, offering points to the top four horses towards being one of the 18 horses eligible for the race by points in North American races (there are spots available to European and Asian horses which participate in races in their respective continents, but if they decline, those spots go to the next highest in points from the North American events).

Inaugurated in 1920,[1] the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes was contested at a distance of one mile from its inception through 1979. The race was transferred to the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky in 1931 but returned to Churchill Downs in 1934.

There was no race run between 1939 and 1945 because of World War II.[2]

  1. ^ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/06/29/98286769.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2017-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)