Indian Summer Stakes
The Indian Summer Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Keeneland race course in Lexington, Kentucky. A Listed stakes for two-year-olds with a purse currently set at $250,000, it is run on the track's grass course over a distance of 5½ furlongs.
Inaugurated in 1991 as a race on the Keeneland dirt track, the Indian Summer Stakes was placed on hiatus after the 2001 running that had been won by the filly Vicki Vallencourt for owners Rick & Ron Rashinski.
In October 2018 the race name was revived but with different conditions as part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" series in which the annual Indian Summer Stakes winner would receive an automatic berth in the year's newly created $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.
Records
Speed record:- * 1:02.28 @ 5.5 furlongs Schwarzenegger
- 1:02.30 @ 5.5 furlongs, Private Creed
- 1:10.00 @ 6 Furlongs, Freefourracing
- 1:23.40 @ 7 furlongs, Little Shocker
- 1:23.40 @ 7 furlongs, Sock City
- 2 - Shane Sellers
- 2 - Pat Day
- 3 - Wesley A. Ward
- 2 - D. Wayne Lukas
- no owner won this race more than once