Kentucky Cup Distaff Stakes

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Grade III race
Kentucky Cup Distaff Stakes

Location Turfway Park
Florence, Kentucky Flag of the United States
Inaugurated 1986
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.woodbineentertainment.com
Race information
Distance 11/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Track Polytrack, left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, Three-years-old & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $175,000

The Kentucky Cup Distaff Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky. The Grade III event is run near the end of September and is open to fillies and mares aged three and older. Contested on dirt at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles, it currently offers a purse of $175,000.

The race was previously known as the Turfway Breeders' Cup Stakes.

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