Jefferson Cup Stakes
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ClassGrade III
LocationChurchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated1977
Race typeThoroughbred – Flat racing
| Class | Grade III |
|---|---|
| Location | Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| 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 |
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.
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)[1] to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.[2]
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
- Speed record
- 1+1⁄8 miles – 1:47.27 – King Cugat (2000)
- 1+1⁄16 miles – 1:43.66 – Banned (2011)
