- Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes
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Grade II race
Churchill Distaff Turf Mile StakesLocation Churchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, United StatesInaugurated 1990 Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing Website www.churchilldowns.com Race information Distance 1 mile (8 furlongs) Track Grass, left-handed Qualification Fillies & Mare, three-years-old & up Weight Assigned Purse $150,000 Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early May at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
A Grade II event, it is open to fillies and mares, aged three and older. Contested over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs) on turf, it currently offers a purse of $150,000.
In 2009, this race was upgraded from a Grade III to a Grade II event.[1].
The race was known as the Capital Holding Mile Stakes until 1995.
Winners of the Distaff Turf Mile Stakes since 1999
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Time 2011 Aviate 4 Kent Desormeaux Bill Mott Juddmonte Farms 1:36.67 2010 Phola 4 Ramon A. Dominguez Todd Pletcher Patterson/Saufley/& others 1:38.35 2009 Tizaqueena 4 Jamie Theriot Michael Stidham Darley Stable 1:38.86 2008 Bayou's Lassie 5 Edgar Prado Dale Romans Jacks or Better Farm 1:37.70 2007 Take the Ribbon 4 Rafael Bejarano Wallace A. Dollase Eurowest Bloodstock 1:36.89 2006 Mirabilis 4 Pat Valenzuela Robert J. Frankel Juddmonte Farms 1:35.93 2005 Miss Terrible 6 Alex Solis Bradley Ross J. & G. Manoogian 1:35.89 2004 Shaconage 4 Brice Blanc Mitch Shirota Andrena Van Doren 1:36.10 2003 Heat Haze 4 Jose Valdivia, Jr. Robert J. Frankel Khalid Abdullah 1:39.96 2002 Stylish 4 Jerry Bailey William I. Mott The Thoroughbred Corp. 1:35.72 2001 Iftiraas 4 Jerry Bailey William I. Mott Gary A. Tanaka 1:36.69 2000 Don't Be Silly 5 Jorge Chavez Merrill R. Scherer Hall/Lunch/Scherer 1:34.78 1999 Shires Ende 4 John R. Velazquez Richard Scherer Carolyn Friedberg 1:35.43 Earlier winners
- 1998 - Witchful Thinking
- 1997 - B A Valentine
- 1996 - Apolda
- 1995 - Bold Ruritana
- 1994 - Weekend Madness
- 1993 - Lady Blessington
- 1992 - Quilma
- 1991 - Foresta
References
Categories:- Graded stakes races in the United States
- Horse races in the United States
- Turf races in the United States
- Mile category horse races for fillies and mares
- Churchill Downs
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