Little Brown Jug (horse race)

Little Brown Jug
Pacing Triple Crown race
LocationDelaware County Fairgrounds racetrack
Delaware, Ohio
Inaugurated1946 (78 years ago) (1946)
Race typeStandardbred
Websitewww.littlebrownjug.com
Race information
Distance1 mile (8.0 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification3-year-olds

The Little Brown Jug is a harness race for three-year-old pacing standardbred horses hosted by the Delaware County Agricultural Society since 1946 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds racetrack in Delaware, Ohio. The race takes place every year on the third Thursday after Labor Day.

Along with the Hambletonian, a race for trotters, it is one of the two most coveted races for standardbreds. The event is named after Little Brown Jug, a pacer, who won nine consecutive races and became a USTA Hall of Fame Immortal in 1975.[1]

The race is the counterpart to the Jugette for three-year-old fillies.

  1. ^ THE EARLY CHAMPIONS Archived 2010-10-09 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2010-11-19