The Doubledogdare Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old or older, over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth on the dirt held annually in April at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. The event currently carries a purse of $300,000.

Doubledogdare Stakes
Grade III race
LocationKeeneland Race Course
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated1992
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
SponsorBaird (since 2011)
Websitewww.keeneland.com/default.aspx
Race information
Distance1+116 miles
Surfacedirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFillies and Mares, four-years-old and older
Weight123 lbs with allowances
PurseUS$300,000 (since 2022)

History edit

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 Keeneland in 1956 to win the Spinster Stakes and would earn American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly honors.[1]

The inaugural running of the event was on 28 October 1992 as a seven furlong event with Jeano the second favorite defeating the favorite Erica's Dream winning by a nose in a time of 1:22.61.[2] Jeano was victorious once again in 1994 to become the races only two-time winner.[3]

In 1995 the event was not scheduled and in 1996 the event was to be held during the Spring meeting but was cancelled after it failed to draw enough entries.[4]

In 1997 the event was scheduled again for the spring meeting held in April, but was run on turf at a distance of five and a half furlongs.[3] The winner Singing Heart set a new Keeneland course record of 1:02.40.[5]

The following year the event was moved back to the dirt track and was run over a distance of mile and a sixteenth.[6]

In 2007 the event was upgraded to Grade III status and that year the event was run on the synthetic Polytrack surface.[6] In 2015 Keeneland reverted to a dirt surface.[6]

The event was not held 2020 during Keeneland's spring meeting which was moved to July and shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[7]

The 1999 U.S. Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Silverbulletday began her four-year-old campaign in this event. The event attracted only five entrants with two scratching before the start of the race. Silverbulletday started an overwhelming 3-10 odds-on favorite in the three horse race narrowly defeating Roza Robata by a neck.[8]

Records edit

Speed record:

  • 1+116 miles – 1:41.20 Lu Ravi (1999)

Margins

  • 12 lengths – Pool Land (2006)

Most wins

  • 2 – Jeano (1992, 1994)

Most wins by a jockey

Most wins by a trainer

Most wins by an owner

Winners edit

Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Distance Time Purse Grade Ref
2024 Raging Sea 4 Flavien Prat Chad C. Brown Alpha Delta Stables 1+116 miles 1:44.24 $300,000 III [9]
2023 Frost Point 5 Flavien Prat William I. Mott Godolphin 1+116 miles 1:43.95 $292,594 III [10]
2022 Malathaat 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Shadwell Racing 1+116 miles 1:44.58 $300,000 III [11]
2021 Bonny South 4 Florent Geroux Brad H. Cox Juddmonte Farm 1+116 miles 1:43.46 $100,000 III [12]
2020 Race not held
2019 Electric Forest 4 Jose L. Ortiz Chad C. Brown Stonestreet Stables 1+116 miles 1:45.25 $98,000 III [13]
2018 Valadorna 4 Brian Hernandez Jr. Mark E. Casse Stonestreet Stables 1+116 miles 1:43.87 $100,000 III [14]
2017 Unbridled Mo 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Red Oak Stable (Brunetti) 1+116 miles 1:45.11 $100,000 III [15]
2016 Brooklynsway 4 Robby Albarado Bernard S. Flint Naveed Chowhan 1+116 miles 1:42.86 $100,000 III [16]
2015 Deceptive Vision 5 John R. Velazquez Malcolm Pierce Sam-Son Farm 1+116 miles 1:44.34 $100,000 III [17]
2014 Sisterly Love 6 Stewart Elliott Mark E. Casse Gary Barber 1+116 miles 1:43.82 $100,000 III [18]
2013 Ice Cream Silence 4 Rosie Napravnik George R. Arnold II G. Watts Humphrey Jr. 1+116 miles 1:44.66 $100,000 III [19]
2012 Pachattack 6 Rajiv Maragh H. Graham Motion Flaxman Holdings 1+116 miles 1:43.75 $100,000 III [20]
2011 Embur's Song 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Fares Farm 1+116 miles 1:41.62 $125,000 III [21]
2010 Haka 4 Garrett K. Gomez Christophe Clement Claiborne Farm 1+116 miles 1:44.72 $98,000 III [22]
2009 Indescribable 5 Kent J. Desormeaux William I. Mott Courtlandt Farm 1+116 miles 1:42.40 $100,000 III [23]
2008 Carriage Trail 5 Kent J. Desormeaux Claude R. McGaughey III Stuart S. Janney III & Phipps Stable 1+116 miles 1:42.51 $125,000 III [24]
2007 Asi Siempre 5 Garrett K. Gomez Patrick L. Biancone Martin S. Schwartz 1+116 miles 1:46.04 $108,600 III [25]
2006 Pool Land 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Melnyk Racing Stables 1+116 miles 1:44.08 $107,300 Listed [26]
2005 Colony Band 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Wertheimer et Frère 1+116 miles 1:46.15 $109,700 Listed [27]
2004 Mayo On the Side 5 Pat Day Carl A. Nafzger Lothenback Stables 1+116 miles 1:43.92 $114,300 Listed [28]
2003 Reason to Talk 4 Pat Day David R. Vance Ronald L. & Tom Kirby 1+116 miles 1:45.19 $105,439 Listed [29]
2002 Dancethruthedawn 4 Robby Albarado Mark R. Frostad Sam-Son Farm 1+116 miles 1:42.92 $107,600 Listed [30]
2001 Darling My Darling 4 Mike E. Smith John T. Ward Jr. Debby M. Oxley 1+116 miles 1:44.38 $108,500 Listed [31]
2000 Silverbulletday 4 Jerry D. Bailey Bob Baffert Michael E. Pegram 1+116 miles 1:43.76 $99,084 Listed [8]
1999 Lu Ravi 4 Willie Martinez Carl Bowman Yoshio Fujita 1+116 miles 1:41.32 $108,800 Listed [32]
1998 Top Secret 5 Joe Bravo George R. Arnold II John H. Peace 1+116 miles 1:42.60 $72,150 Listed [33]
1997 Singing Heart 5 Craig Perret Alice G. Cohn Carl Icahn 5+12 furlongs 1:02.49 $73,385 Listed [34]
1995–1996 Race not held
1994 Jeano 6 Shane Sellers Carl A. Nafzger Frances A. Genter Stable 7 furlongs 1:24.06 $44,700 [35]
1993 How Rare 4 Brent E. Bartram Billy G. Ashabraner Norman R. Wooten & Bryant Wells 7 furlongs 1:22.02 $46,900 [36]
1992 Jeano 4 Shane Sellers Carl A. Nafzger Frances A. Genter 7 furlongs 1:22.61 $38,150 [2]

Legend:
  All Weather Track   Dirt   Turf

See also edit

External links edit

References edit

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  4. ^ "Hoofnotes". Lexington Herald-Leader. 15 April 1996. p. 17. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Singing Heart sets record in win". Lexington Herald-Leader. The Associated Press. 17 April 1997. p. 22. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
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