Keeneland Releases Fall Stakes Schedule, Including Nine ‘Win And You’re In’ Races

Keeneland will be the focus of Thoroughbred racing this autumn when the track presents 18 stakes worth a total of $4,775,000 during its 2020 Fall Meet, to be held Oct. 2-24 ahead of the 37th Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland on Nov. 6-7.

The prestigious Fall Stars Weekend opens the 17-day season, which also features the repositioning of the Hagyard Fayette (G2) to join the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana on the second Saturday of the meet and serve as a prep for the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) on Nov. 7.

“The Keeneland fall racing season is highly anticipated by horsemen and fans alike, but this one is even more exciting as it serves as a prelude for the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland,” Keeneland Vice President of Racing Bob Elliston said. “We expect to welcome many Breeders' Cup-bound stars, both human and equine, that will boost the racing competition and the handicapping fun during the Fall Meet and build momentum leading into the World Championships.”

Keeneland will host the Breeders' Cup for the second time following its successful debut at the track in 2015.

Nine Fall Stars Weekend stakes are “Win and You're In” events, part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series Presented by America's Best Racing that awards each winner an automatic and free entry into the World Championships: $350,000 Darley Alcibiades (G1) (Juvenile Fillies-G1) and $200,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G2) (Sprint-G1) on Friday, Oct. 2; $750,000 Shadwell Turf Mile (G1) (TVG Mile-G1), $400,000 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (G1) (TVG Juvenile-G1), $350,000 First Lady Presented by UK HealthCare (G1) (Maker's Mark Filly and Mare Turf-G1) and $200,000 Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) (Filly and Mare Sprint-G1) on Saturday, Oct. 3; and $400,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1) (Distaff-G1), $200,000 Bourbon (G2) (Juvenile Turf Presented by Coolmore America-G1) and $150,000 Indian Summer (L) (Juvenile Turf Sprint-G2) on Sunday, Oct. 4.

The other graded stakes during Fall Stars Weekend, also being run Saturday, Oct. 3, is the $150,000 Woodford (G2) Presented by TVG.

Last year, Fall Stars Weekend produced three Breeders' Cup winners. Darley Alcibiades winner British Idiom won the Juvenile Fillies; Juddmonte Spinster winner Blue Prize (ARG) took the Distaff and First Lady Presented by UK HealthCare winner Uni (GB) captured the Mile. British Idiom and Uni both were division champions.

Keeneland's 10th Breeders' Cup Challenge race, set for Wednesday, Oct. 7, is the $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G2). The winner earns a spot in the starting gate for the Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1).

The Fall Meet's sixth Grade 1 stakes, the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Dixiana, an invitational turf race for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles, will be held Saturday, Oct. 10.

Keeneland 2020 Fall Meet Stakes Schedule: Oct. 2-24

Date Stakes Division Distance
Oct. 2 $350,000 Darley Alcibiades (G1)* 2YO Fillies 1 1/16 Miles
Oct. 2 $200,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G2)* 3YOs & Up 6 Furlongs
Oct. 3 $750,000 Shadwell Turf Mile (G1)* 3YOs & Up 1 Mile (T)
Oct. 3 $400,000 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (G1)*  2YOs 1 1/16 Miles
Oct. 3 $350,000 First Lady Presented by UK HealthCare (G1)* 3YOs & Up, F&M 1 Mile (T)
Oct. 3 $200,000 Thoroughbred Club of America (G2)* 3YOs & Up, F&M 6 Furlongs
Oct. 3 $150,000 Woodford (G2) Presented
by TVG
3YOs & Up 5½ Furlongs (T)
Oct. 4 $400,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1)* 3YOs & Up, F&M 1 1/8 Miles
Oct. 4 $200,000 Bourbon (G2)* 2YOs 1 1/16 Miles (T)
Oct. 4 $150,000 Indian Summer (L)* 2YOs 5½ Furlongs (T)
Oct. 7 $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G2)* 2YO Fillies 1 1/16 Miles (T)
Oct. 9 $150,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County (G3) 3YOs & Up, F&M 5½ Furlongs (T)
Oct. 10 $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Dixiana (G1) 3YO Fillies 1 1/8 Miles (T)
Oct. 10 $200,000 Hagyard Fayette (G2) 3YO & Up 1 1/8 Miles
Oct. 15 $150,000 Sycamore (G3) 3YOs & Up 1½ Miles (T)
Oct. 16 $150,000 Pin Oak Valley View (G3) 3YO Fillies 1 1/16 Miles (T)
Oct. 17 $200,000 Lexus Raven Run (G2) 3YO Fillies 7 Furlongs
Oct. 18 $125,000 Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3) 3YOs & Up, F&M 1½ Miles (T)


*Breeders' Cup Challenge stakes

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Churchill Unveils $9.85M Stakes Schedule

A total of 18 stakes events, topped by the Sept. 5 GI Kentucky Derby and Sept. 4 GI Kentucky Oaks are on tap for the 2020 September Meet at Churchill Downs.

The September Meet stakes schedule is led by the revised Kentucky Derby Week, which was moved from April 25-May 2 to Sept. 1-5 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will feature 14 graded stakes, including the GI Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic and the GI Derby City Distaff, formerly known as the Humana Distaff.

A new addition to the revised Kentucky Derby day stakes schedule is the $200,000 GIII Iroquois presented by Ford, the launch of the Road to the 2021 Kentucky Derby (top 4 points: 10-4-2-1) and a “Win and You’re In Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Division.” The Derby undercard will also feature the GIII Longines Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile, the GII Americna Turf S. and GIII Pat Day Mile.

Kentucky Oaks day will feature the GI La Troienne S., the GII Alysheba S., the GII Eight Belles S,, GII Edgewood S. and GII Twin Spires Turf Sprint S.

The GIII Pocahontas S. for juvenile fillies will be held on Thurby, the Thursday before the Derby. It is a 10-point race on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks and is a “Win and You’re In” for the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.

The GI Churchill Downs S., which was previously run on Kentucky Derby Day, is tentatively scheduled to be run during the fall meet.

After the Sept. 1-5 Kentucky Derby Week, Churchill Downs will stage its annual nine-day September Meet from Sept. 17-27. The lone stakes event will be the $100,000 Ack Ack for 3-year-olds and up at one mile Sept. 26.

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