In a single day purses at Keeneland this fall will mirror these from final 12 months, with maidens racing for as much as $100,000 in purses and first-level allowance runners doubtlessly competing for $110,000. These figures depend purse dietary supplements for Kentucky-breds by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Improvement Fund.
These particular purse ranges rank Keeneland close to the highest of North American racetracks, however beneath these at Kentucky Downs and Churchill Downs, two different Kentucky tracks with extremely profitable purse-boosting historic horse racing gaming operations.
The Keeneland fall meet situation e-book and stakes e-book are actually on-line.
A season-record $9.6 million can be supplied in stakes purses throughout the observe’s 17 days of racing this fall Oct. 4-26, with 4 stakes receiving additions totaling $550,000, led by the closing-day Bryan Station Stakes (G3T) receiving a lift from $300,000 to $600,000. A mile race for 3-year-olds, the Bryan Station can be contested at a mile on turf. The KTDF is contributing $1.35 million to fall meet purses.
Turf races at Keeneland, all the time standard, determine to be in demand this fall after Churchill Downs scrapped turf racing throughout its September meet after having low season work carried out on its troubled turf course. Churchill Downs runs Sept. 12-29 after a seven-day, all-turf meet at Kentucky Downs Aug. 29-Sept. 11.Â
Keeneland’s Oct. 5 card, its first Saturday program of the meet, has 4 turf races scheduled to be run, topped by the $1.25 million Coolmore Turf Mile (G1T).
