Keeneland Race Course Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated
1991 (as Hopemont Stakes)
Race type
Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Sponsor
Castle & Key (since 2022)
Website
Keeneland
Race information
Distance
1+1⁄16 miles
Surface
Turf
Track
Left-handed
Qualification
Two-year-olds
Weight
122 lbs with allowances
Purse
$350,000 (2022)
Bonuses
Win and You're In Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf
The Bourbon Stakes is a Grade II American thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds over a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles on the turf held annually in early October at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky during the fall meeting.
The BourbonStakes is a Grade II American thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds over a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles on the turf held annually in early...
2020. Five stakes race were not scheduled: Bewitch Stakes, Ben Ali Stakes, Commonwealth Stakes, Doubledogdare Stakes and Lexington Stakes. The Breeders'...
this feat in the same year. On May 16, 2009, Borel won the 2009 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico with thoroughbred filly Rachel Alexandra. In doing so, Borel...
age two, Not Bourbon set a new Woodbine track record in winning the Bull Page Stakes. Racing at age three, he won the Queenston Stakes then upset heavily...
Midnight Bourbon (January 25, 2018 – April 17, 2022) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2021 Lecomte Stakes and came second in the 2021...
American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2008 Santa Anita Derby and Travers Stakes. Bred and raced by WinStar Farm, Colonel John was sired by Tiznow, the 2000...
Concert Tour, who had won two stakes races but finished third in his most recent start in the Arkansas Derby. Midnight Bourbon was expected to be the third...
his first stakes winner at Canterbury Park, and three years later he won his first graded stakes race at Keeneland in the Beaumont Stakes with Her Temper...
George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. He was retired to stud in 1979 and sired the Derby winner Kahyasi. Ile de Bourbon was a dark-coated bay horse...
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...
and wins.[citation needed] On July 10, 2010 Hill swept the two $75,000 stakes races on the 75th Anniversary Day program at Suffolk Downs in front of a...
leader in breeding, sales, and racing. He bred Vigil, the 1923 Preakness Stakes winner. Among his famous sires was Sir Gallahad, purchased from France,...
The Haskell Stakes is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run over a distance of 1+1⁄8 miles on the dirt held annually in July...
date, he has also had major stakes race wins including the Florida Derby, Acorn Stakes, Pimlico Special, Travers Stakes, Haskell Invitational Handicap...
The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Ascot...