Jefferson Cup Stakes
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.
Grade III race | |
Location | Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1977 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Website | Churchill Downs |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Left-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-olds |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $100,000 |
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) to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.
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
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