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 | US$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)