Jenny Wiley Stakes
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The Jenny Wiley Stakes is a American Thoroughbred horse race run at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky in the early spring of the year. The Grade IIT turf event is for four-year-olds and older fillies and mares, and is set at a distance of one and one-sixteenth of a mile.
The Jenny Wiley Stakes, named for Jenny Wiley, a pregnant pioneer woman captured in Kentucky by Native Americans in 1789 and who escaped after almost a year in captivity, offers a purse of $200,000.
In 2005, the race was upgraded from a Grade IIIT to a Grade IIT for the time being. The Jenny Wiley will be in its 21nd running in 2009.
In 1998 the race was set at a distance of 1 and ½ miles.
Thrilling Day (running in 1997) holds the race record at 1:41 flat.
[edit] Past winners
- 2008 – Rutherienne (4) (1:44.76) (Garrett Gomez)
- 2007 – My Typhoon (IRE) (4) (1:43.37) (Eddie Castro)
- 2006 – Wend (5) (1:41.34 (Edgar Prado)
- 2005 – Intercontinental (GB) (5) (1:41.89 (Jerry Bailey)
- 2004 - Intercontinental (GB) (4) (1:41.41) Jerry Bailey)
- 2003 – Sea of Showers (4) (1:41.89) (Jerry Bailey)
- 2002 – Tates Creek (4) (1:42.27) (Kent Desormeaux)
- 2001 – Penny’s Gold (FR) (4) (1:40:93) (Jose Santos)
- 2000 – Astra (4) ((1:42:48) (Corey Nakatani)
- 1999 – Pleasant Temper (5) (1:40:4/5)
- 1998 – Maxzene (5) (2:30:2/5) (Jose Santos)
- 1997 – Thrilling Day (1:41) (Willie Martiniez)
- 1996 -
- 1995 -
- 1994 -
- 1992 – Spinning Round (1:41 2/5)
- 1991 -
- 1990 -
- 1989 -
- 1988 -
