Keeneland Race Course Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated
1962
Race type
Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website
Keeneland
Race information
Distance
1+1⁄2 miles (12 furlongs)
Surface
Turf
Track
Left-handed
Qualification
Fillies & Mares, four-years-old and older
Weight
123 lbs with allowances
Purse
$300,000 (since 2022)
The Bewitch Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares four-year-olds and older over a distance of 1+1⁄2 miles on the turf held annually in April at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the spring meeting. The event currently offers a purse of $300,000.
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2020. Five stakes race were not scheduled: BewitchStakes, Ben Ali Stakes, Commonwealth Stakes, Doubledogdare Stakes and Lexington Stakes. The Breeders'...
of Famer Ben A. Jones, as a two-year-old Bewitch won her first eight starts, six of them consecutive stakes races. In her first effort, she led throughout...
Shopping in the final strides. On April 23 at Keeneland in the Grade III BewitchStakes, War Like Goddess started as the 13/10 favorite in a field of eleven...
edition was won by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Alsab. In 1947, Bewitch won, Citation finished second, and Free America was third. All three horses...
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United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders...
time later that year. One of his first stakes wins as a jockey was at the age of 15 in 1974 in the Old Hickory Stakes at Fairgrounds Race Course on board...
across the United States, earning wins in major races such as the Travers Stakes. In 1979, he rode Smarten to wins in four Derbys, capturing the American...
a bush track in Clay Center, Nebraska. In the June 18, 1955 Californian Stakes at Hollywood Park Racetrack, Dave Erb was the substitute rider for the suspended...
Turfway Park Fall Championship Stakes is the most by any jockey as of 2023 . In 1970, Mike Manganello won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in...
to Churchill Downs in 2017. Inaugurated in 1930, Hall of Fame member, Bewitch, ran second in 1949. Real Delight won it in 1953. 1947 – But Why Not 1949...
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Famers, including his other great daughters: Two Lea, Bewitch, and Twilight Tear). Her dam was the stakes-winning Blue Delight (10 wins out of 24 starts) out...
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