Kentucky Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes
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The Kentucky Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 run annually at Turfway Park
Turfway Park
Turfway Park is an American horse racing track located just outside the city limits to the north of Florence, Kentucky, about 10 miles south of the Ohio River at Cincinnati...

 in Florence, Kentucky
Florence, Kentucky
Florence is a city in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 29,951 at the 2010 census.-History:The Florence area was originally known as Crossroads, because of the convergence of several roads from Burlington and Union at Ridge Road...

. A Listed race run near the end of September, it is open to two-year-old fillies
Filly
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 and is contested on Polytrack
Polytrack
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 synthetic dirt at a distance of one mile (eight furlong
Furlong
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s).

The counterpart to the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes, both races were discontinued in 2009 due to financial restraints. http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2009/August/10/Turfway-drops-Kentucky-Cup-juvenile-stakes.aspx The event offered a purse of $100,000 in 2008.

With the support of WinStar Farm
WinStar Farm
WinStar Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm near Versailles, Kentucky. Formerly known as Prestonwood Farm, it was owned by Houston, Texas oilmen Jack, Art, and J. R...

, this race which was suspended in 2009 and 2010 due to economic challenges, will return in 2011.

Records

Speed record:
  • 1:36.60 - Love That Jazz (1996)


Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
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:


Most wins by a trainer
Horse trainer
In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

:
  • 2 - D. Wayne Lukas
    D. Wayne Lukas
    Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...

     (1994, 1995)
  • 2 - Robert E. Holthus
    Robert E. Holthus
    Robert E. "Bob" Holthus was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. As a second generation trainer, Holthus learned the profession from his father, Paul Holthus....

     (2001, 2005)
  • 2 - Bob Baffert
    Bob Baffert
    Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...

     (2002, 2003)
  • 2 - Steve Asmussen
    Steve Asmussen
    Steven Mark Asmussen is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas...

     (2004, 2007)


Most wins by an owner:
  • 2 - William Heiligbrodt (1999, 2004)

Winners

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2011 Charming Vixon Calvin Borel
Calvin Borel
Calvin H. Borel is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby...

Tom Amoss
2010 Not run
2009 Not run
2008 Sugar Mom Manuel Aguilar Wayne A. Catalano Frank C. Calabrese 1:37.86
2007 Sky Mom Terry J. Thompson Steve Asmussen
Steve Asmussen
Steven Mark Asmussen is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas...

Heather Stark 1:38.11
2006 Cohiba Miss Willie Martinez
Willie Martinez (jockey)
Willie Martinez is a jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.Martinez was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, but emigrated to the United States in 1988 to work as a hotwalker and groom for his sister's godfather at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, New York...

Bernard S. Flint Mike Rutherford 1:36.68
2005 Beau Dare John McKee Robert E. Holthus
Robert E. Holthus
Robert E. "Bob" Holthus was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. As a second generation trainer, Holthus learned the profession from his father, Paul Holthus....

Walts David Stable LLC 1:38.93
2004 Punch Appeal Shane Sellers
Shane Sellers
Shane Jude Sellers is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs....

Steve Asmussen
Steve Asmussen
Steven Mark Asmussen is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas...

Heiligbrodt Stable & Burning Daylight Farm 1:38.04
2003 Class Above Edgar Prado Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert
Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...

Padua Stables 1:39.04
2002 Atlantic Ocean Mike E. Smith Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert
Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...

The Thoroughbred Corp.
The Thoroughbred Corp.
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1:40.39
2001 Playing N' Gold Joe Judice Robert E. Holthus
Robert E. Holthus
Robert E. "Bob" Holthus was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. As a second generation trainer, Holthus learned the profession from his father, Paul Holthus....

Kenneth English & Alan Braun 1:37.20
2000 Miss Pickums Francisco Torres Paul J. McGee Siegel family 1:40.13
1999 Regally Appealing Edgar Prado John C. Kimmel
John C. Kimmel
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William Heiligbrodt 1:41.00
1998 Grand Deed Gary L. Stevens Kenneth McPeek
Kenneth McPeek
Kenneth G. McPeek is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Kenneth G. McPeek was born August 2, 1962 in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Tates Creek High School and then the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration...

Andrew Ruzicho 1:38.60
1997 Nurse Goodbody Eddie Martin, Jr. Joe Petalino E. L. Gaylord & Lazy E Racing 1:38.60
1996 Love That Jazz Mike E. Smith Nick Zito
Nick Zito
Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...

Irving & Marjorie Cowan 1:36.60
1995 Tipically Irish Gary L. Stevens D. Wayne Lukas
D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...

Michael Tabor
Michael Tabor
Michael B. Tabor is a businessman and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.-Thoroughbred racing career:...

1:37.80
1994 Cat Appeal Jerry D. Bailey D. Wayne Lukas
D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...

Overbrook Farm 1:40.20
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