Jefferson Cup Stakes - Jefferson Cup

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) to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.

Since inception, the Jefferson Cup Stakes has been contested at various distances:

• 5.5 furlongs : 1977-1981
•  1 ¹â„₁₆ miles : 1982, 2010 - 2013
•  1 ¹â„₈ miles : 1983-2009

Records

Speed record

•  1 ¹â„₈ miles - 1:47.27 - King Cugat (2000)
•  1 ¹â„₁₆ miles - 1:43.66 - Banned (2011)

Winners of the Jefferson Cup Stakes since 1999

Earlier winners

References