Jenny Wiley Stakes
Grade I race | |
Location | Keeneland Racecourse Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1989 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website | www.keeneland.com |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Left-handed |
Qualification | Fillies & Mares, four-year-olds & up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $350,000 (since 2016)[1] |
The Jenny Wiley Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid-April at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Kentucky. The Grade IT turf event is for fillies and Mares, age four and older and is contested at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles.
The Jenny Wiley Stakes is named for Jenny Wiley, a pregnant pioneer woman captured in Kentucky by Native Americans in 1789 and who escaped after almost a year in captivity.
The Jenny Wiley Stakes has been sponsored by Coolmore America Ashford Stud since 2016.
Inaugurated in 1989 as a Listed race, in 1995 the Jenny Wiley Stakes was elevated to Grade III status and to a Grade II event in 2006. It was elevated to Grade I status in 2012.[1]
Records
Speed record: (at current distance of 1+1⁄16 miles)
- 1:40.53 - Tepin (2016)
- Most wins
- 2 - Intercontinental (2004, 2005)
- Most wins by an owner
- 3 - Juddmonte Farms (2002, 2004, 2005)
- Most wins by a jockey
- 5 - Jerry D. Bailey (1996, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005)
- Most wins by a trainer
- 4 - William I. Mott (1994, 1996, 2006, 2007)
- 4 - Robert J. Frankel (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Winners
References
- ^ a b "Jenny Wiley Stakes Profile". Equibase. Archived from the original on 20 April 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2019.