Alysheba Stakes

Alysheba Stakes
Grade II race
Location Churchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated 2004
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.churchilldowns.com
Race information
Distance 1 116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds and up[1]
Weight Assigned
Purse US$400,000 (2015)

The Alysheba Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. The Alysheba became the most recent addition to the Derby Week stakes lineup as it joined the schedule in 2004 and is currently run on the undercard of the Kentucky Oaks, the day before the Kentucky Derby. It was the first stakes to join the Derby Week lineup since 1997. The event is named for the talented 1987 Kentucky Derby winner and United States Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Alysheba, who returned to the Downs in 1988 to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. His victory marked the first time a Derby winner had returned to Churchill to win a stakes since Whirlaway took the 1942 Clark Handicap. He was later honored at the track that fall as he retired as the sports leading money earner, $6,679,242. The stakes received graded status in 2007. The Grade II event is open to horses age three and older[1] and is contested on dirt over a distance of 1 116 miles (8.5 furlongs).

Records

Speed record
Most wins by a jockey
Most wins by a trainer

Winners since 2004

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2015 Protonico 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Sumaya U.S. Stable 1:42.34
2014 Moonshine Mullin 6 Calvin H. Borel Randy L. Morse Randy Patterson 1:42.83
2013 Take Charge Indy 4 Rosie Napravnik Patrick B. Byrne WinStar Farm/Sandford 1:41.41
2012 Successful Dan 4 Julien Leparoux Charles Lopresti Morton Fink 1:41.04 new stakes record/new track record
2011 First Dude 4 Martin Garcia Bob Baffert Double Diamond Farm 1:42.56
2010 Arson Squad 7 Paco Lopez Richard E. Dutrow, Jr. Jay Em Ess Stable 1:43.28
2009 Bullsbay 5 Jeremy Rose Albert M. Stall, Jr. Mitchell Ranch/Lewkowitz/Rice 1:44.29
2008 Giant Gizmo 4 Rafael Bejarano Robert J. Frankel Frank Stronach 1:43.96
2007 Wanderin Boy 6 Corey Nakatani Nick Zito Arthur B. Hancock III 1:43.45
2006 Gouldings Green 5 Corey Lanerie Anthony Reinstedler Melnyk Racing Stable 1:42.37
2005 Limehouse 4 John Velazquez Todd Pletcher Dogwood Stable 1:42.32
2004 Congrats 4 John Velazquez C. R. McGaughey III A. Dilschneider/Claiborne 1:44.31

References

  1. 1 2 Asher, John (May 2, 2008). "Alysheba Recap". Churchill Downs Communications (Churchill Downs Incorporated). Retrieved January 26, 2015.


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