Doubledogdare Stakes
| Grade III race | |
| Location | Keeneland Race Course Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
|---|---|
| Inaugurated | 1992 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
| Website | www |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) |
| Surface | dirt |
| Track | left-handed |
| Qualification | Fillies and Mares, four-years-old & up |
| Weight | Assigned |
| Purse | $100,000 |
The Doubledogdare Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. A Grade III event since 2007, it is open to fillies and mares, age four and older. The race is contested on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (8.5 furlongs).
The race was named for Doubledogdare, the filly who gave Claiborne Farm their first major stakes win at Keeneland in the 1955 Alcibiades Stakes.[1] Doubledogdare went on to be voted that year's American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and returned to Keeland in 1956 to win the Spinster Stakes and would earn American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly honors.
Inaugurated in 1992 as a seven furlong event, Jeano won the inaugural running of the Doubledogdare Stakes by a nose. Jeano won again in 1994 to become the races only two-time winner.[2] The 1995 and 1996 races were canceled after it failed to draw enough entries. In 1997, the event was run on turf at a distance of five and a half furlongs. It was won by Singing Heart in a new Keeneland course record of 1:02.40.[3] A listed race in 1998, the distance was set ast its current mile and a sixteenth.
Records
Speed record: (at current distance of 1+1⁄16 miles)
- 1:41.20 - Lu Ravi (1999)
- Most wins
- 2 - Jeano (1992, 1994)
- Most wins by a jockey
- 4 - John Velazquez (2005, 2006, 2015,2017)
- 2 - Shane Sellers (1992, 1994)
- 2 - Pat Day (2003, 2004)
- 2 - Garrett Gomez (2007, 2010)
- 2 - Kent Desormeaux (2008, 2009)
- 2 - Robby Albarado (2002, 2016)
- Most wins by a trainer
- 3 - Carl A. Nafzger (1992, 1994, 2004)
- Most wins by an owner
- 2 - Frances A. Genter (1992, 1994)
Winners
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Valedorna | 4 | Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. | Mark E. Casse | Stonestreet Stables LLC | 1:43.87 |
| 2017 | Unbridled Mo | 4 | John Velazquez | Todd A. Pletcher | Red Oak Stable (Brunetti) | 1:45.11 |
| 2016 | Brooklynsway | 4 | Robby Albarado | Bernard S. Flint | Naveed Chowhan | 1:42.86 |
| 2015 | Deceptive Vision | 5 | John Velazquez | Malcolm Pierce | Sam-Son Farm | 1:44.34 |
| 2014 | Sisterly Love | 6 | Stewart Elliott | Mark E. Casse | Gary Barber | 1:43.82 |
| 2013 | Ice Cream Silence | 4 | Rosie Napravnik | George R. Arnold II | G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. | 1:44.66 |
| 2012 | Pachattack | 6 | Rajiv Maragh | Graham Motion | Flaxman Holdings | 1:43.75 |
| 2011 | Emburs Song | 4 | Patrick Husbands | Todd Pletcher | Fares Farm | 1:41.62 |
| 2010 | Haka | 4 | Garrett Gomez | Christophe Clement | Claiborne Farm | 1:44.72 |
| 2009 | Indescribable | 5 | Kent Desormeaux | William I. Mott | Courtlandt Farm | 1:42.40 |
| 2008 | Carriage Trail | 5 | Kent Desormeaux | Claude R. McGaughey III | Stuart S. Janney III | 1:42.51 |
| 2007 | Asi Siempre | 5 | Garrett Gomez | Patrick L. Biancone | Martin S. Schwartz | 1:46.04 |
| 2006 | Pool Land | 4 | John Velazquez | Todd A. Pletcher | Melnyk Racing Stables | 1:44.08 |
| 2005 | Colony Band | 4 | John Velazquez | Todd A. Pletcher | Wertheimer et Frere | 1:46.15 |
| 2004 | Mayo On the Side | 5 | Pat Day | Carl A. Nafzger | Lothenback Stables, Inc. | 1:43.92 |
| 2003 | Reason to Talk | 4 | Pat Day | David R. Vance | K and K Racing Stable | 1:45.19 |
| 2002 | Dancethruthedawn | 4 | Robby Albarado | Mark R. Frostad | Sam-Son Farm | 1:42.92 |
| 2001 | Darling My Darling | 4 | Mike E. Smith | John T. Ward, Jr. | Debby M. Oxley | 1:44.38 |
| 2000 | Silverbulletday | 4 | Jerry D. Bailey | Bob Baffert | Michael E. Pegram | 1:43.60 |
| 1999 | Lu Ravi | 4 | Willie Martinez | Carl E. Bowman | Yoshio Fujita | 1:41.20 |
| 1998 | Top Secret | 5 | Joe Bravo | George R. Arnold II | John H. Peace | 1:42.60 |
| 1997 | Singing Heart | 5 | Craig Perret | Alice Cohn | Carl Icahn | 1:02.40 |
| 1994 | Jeano | 6 | Shane Sellers | Carl A. Nafzger | Frances A. Genter | 1:24.00 |
| 1993 | How Rare | 4 | Brent Bartram | Billy G. Ashabraner | N. R. Wooten & B. Wells | 1:22.00 |
| 1992 | Jeano | 4 | Shane Sellers | Carl A. Nafzger | Frances A. Genter | 1:22.60 |