English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
הורד מילון זה
Ashland Stakes
The
Ashland Stakes
is an
American
Thoroughbred horse race
held annually in early April at
Keeneland Race Course
in
Lexington, Kentucky
,
United States
. It and the Ashland Oaks, the
Kentucky Association
racetrack's predecessor race, were named for
Ashland
, the homestead and breeding farm of statesman
Henry Clay
in
Lexington, Kentucky
. Restricted to three-year-olds
fillies
the race is currently run at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles. The race is a
Grade I
event with a current purse of $500,000 and has been a prep race to the
Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing
, including the
Kentucky Oaks
, the
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
and
Mother Goose Stakes
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License