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Woodford Reserve Bourbon Stakes


Date: October 05, 08
Post:
Purse: $200,000
Grade: 3
Type: Thoroughbred
Distance: 1 1/16 Miles
Age: Two Year Old
Sex:
Turf: Turf


Keeneland
4201 Versailles Road P.O. Box 1690
Lexington, Kentucky, 40502
USA

(859)-254-3412
(800)-456-3412


Notes:
The Woodford Reserve Bourban Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse-racing event that is run at a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on the left-handed turf track of Keeneland Race Track, Kentucky. This grade III horse-racing event is open to horses with two-year-olds and carries a purse amount of 200,000. The race took place for the first time in 1991 as the Hopemont Stakes and the name changed to Bourbon Stakes for the 2003 race. According to the information available with us, the race was run in two divisions in 1998. At present, this horse-racing event has been included into the Breeders Cup Challenge series it has been decided that the winner of the 2008 Bourbon Stakes will automatically be qualified for racing in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf.
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