Base weights with allowances 4-year-olds and up: 125 lbs. 3-year-olds: 122 lbs.
Purse
$1,000,000 (2021)
Bonuses
Winner automatic entry into Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint
The Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint Stakes, raced as the Ainsworth Turf Sprint Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three years old or older, over a distance of six furlongs on the turf held annually in September at Kentucky Downs racetrack in Franklin, Kentucky during their short turf meeting. The event currently carries a purse of $1,000,000 which includes $400,000 from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund.
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seven-furlong inner turf track. Non-race functions at the venue included the Hot Dog Safari. The track provided the name of the nearby MBTA Suffolk Downs subway station...
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the turf course. The event was downgraded to Listed as a consequence of the transfer of the event to dirt In 2023 the Belmont TurfSprintStakes was taken...
such as the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, golf events such as the British Open, and the Indianapolis 500. The Jim McKay TurfSprint was first run...
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the transfer of his headstone. In 2015, KentuckyDowns introduced the Old Friends Stakes. A black-type turfstakes run in September, the race is held on...
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