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 (9 furlongs) 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
- 1 1/ miles : 1982, 2010
- 1⅛ miles : 1983-2009
Read more about Jefferson Cup Stakes: Records, Winners of The Jefferson Cup Stakes Since 1999, Earlier Winners
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