Jeff Ruby Tops Turfway’s Winter-Spring Stakes Schedule
Twenty stakes races worth a total of nearly $4 million will highlight Turfway Park‘s winter/spring meet, anchored by the 55th running of the $777,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) Saturday, March 21.
The Jeff Ruby is a Championship Series race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
The Jan. 1-March 28 winter/spring meet follows the Holiday Meet from Dec. 3-27. The Holiday Meet features seven stakes led by Synthetic Championships Night Saturday, Dec. 13, offering $1 million across four stakes races. All stakes purses at both meets include contributions from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund. Combined, the Holiday and winter/spring meets will offer $5.352 million in stakes purses.
Jeff Ruby Steaks day on March 21 will showcase six stakes, including the $300,000 TwinSpires Kentucky Cup Classic (G3) and the $300,000 Bourbonette Oaks, a Championship Series race on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks. The supporting stakes on the card include the $250,000 Latonia, the $250,000 Animal Kingdom, and $250,000 Rushaway.
Other notable events during the winter/spring meet include the $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial Saturday, Feb. 21—a Prep Season race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, and the $175,000 Cincinnati Trophy, one night earlier, on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks.
Daily first post times, aside from Jeff Ruby Steaks Day, will be 5:55 p.m. ET. Jeff Ruby Steaks Day will get started at 12:45 p.m.
The complete winter/spring meet stakes schedule is below:
|
Date
|
Race
|
Purse
|
Age
|
Distance
|
Grade
|
|
Thursday, Jan. 1
|
The Gowell Stakes
|
$125,000
|
3yo (f)
|
6 F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Jan. 3
|
The Turfway Prevue
|
$125,000
|
3yo
|
6 ½ F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Jan. 10
|
The Likely Exchange
|
$125,000
|
4yo and up (F&M)
|
1 M
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Jan. 17
|
The Leonatus Stakes
|
$125,000
|
3yo
|
1 M
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Jan. 24
|
The Wishing Well
|
$125,000
|
4yo and up (F&M)
|
6 ½ F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Jan. 31
|
The Forego
|
$125,000
|
4yo and up
|
6 ½ F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Feb. 7
|
The Valdale
|
$125,000
|
3yo (f)
|
6 ½ F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Feb. 14
|
The Dust Commander
|
$125,000
|
4yo and up
|
1 1/16 M
|
BT
|
|
Friday, Feb. 20
|
The Cincinnati Trophy
|
$175,000
|
3yo (f)
|
1 M
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, Feb. 21
|
The John Battaglia Memorial
|
$175,000
|
3yo
|
1 1/16 M
|
Listed
|
|
Saturday, Feb. 28
|
The Wintergreen
|
$125,000
|
4yo and up (F&M)
|
1 M
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, March 7
|
The Big Daddy
|
$125,000
|
4yo and up
|
6 F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, March 14
|
The Queen
|
$125,000
|
4yo and up (F&M)
|
6 F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, March 21
|
The Jeff Ruby Steaks
|
$777,000
|
3yo
|
1 1/8 M
|
Grade III
|
|
Saturday, March 21
|
The Bourbonette Oaks
|
$300,000
|
3yo (f)
|
1 1/16 M
|
Listed
|
|
Saturday, March 21
|
The TwinSpires Ky Cup Classic
|
$300,000
|
4yo and up
|
1 1/8 M
|
Grade III
|
|
Saturday, March 21
|
The Animal Kingdom
|
$250,000
|
3yo
|
6 F
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, March 21
|
The Latonia Stakes
|
$250,000
|
4yo and up (F&M)
|
1 1/16 M
|
Listed
|
|
Saturday, March 21
|
The Rushaway
|
$250,000
|
3yo
|
1 1/16 M
|
BT
|
|
Saturday, March 28
|
The Serena’s Song
|
$125,000
|
3yo (f)
|
6 F
|
BT
|
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
