Jefferson Cup Stakes
The Jefferson Cup Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in mid-June near the end of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky. A race on turf, it is open to three-year-old horses of either gender.
For 2010, the purse was dropped from $200,000 to $100,000 and the race was downgraded from a Grade II event at a mile and an eighth to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.
Since inception, the Jefferson Cup Stakes has been contested at various distances:
- 5.5 furlongs : 1977–1981
- miles : 1982, 2010–2013
- miles : 1983–2009
Records
;Speed record- miles – 1:47.27 – King Cugat
- miles – 1:43.66 – Banned
Earlier winners
- 1993 – Lt. Pinkerton
- 1992 – Senor Thomas
- 1991 – Hanging Curve
- 1990 – Divine Warning
- 1989 – Shy Tom
- 1988 – Stop the Stage
- 1987 – Fast Forward
- 1986 – Buffalo Beau
- 1985 – Aveys Brother
- 1984 – Coax Me Chad
- 1983 – Pron Regard
- 1982 – Wavering Monarch
- 1981 – Talent Town
- 1980 – Golden Derby
- 1979 – Rockhill Native
- 1978 – Future Hope
- 1977 – Old Jake