Lexington Stakes (Keeneland)

Lexington Stakes
Grade III race
LocationKeeneland Race Course
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
InauguratedInitial: 1936–1942
Reestablished: 1973 (as Calumet Purse)
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
SponsorStonestreet Farm (since 2017)
Websitewww.keeneland.com
Race information
Distance1+116 miles
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds
Weight123 lbs with allowances
PurseUS$400,000 (since 2022)

The Lexington Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt run annually in April during at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky during their spring meeting. The event currently offers a purse of $400,000.[1]

  1. ^ "Keeneland Condition Book". Equibse. 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.