Spinster Stakes

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Grade I race
Spinster Stakes

Location Keeneland Race Course
Lexington, Kentucky Flag of the United States
Inaugurated 1956
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website Keeneland
Race information
Distance 1⅛ miles (9 Furlongs)
Track Polytrack, left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds & up, fillies & mares
Weight Weight-for-age
Purse $500,000

The Spinster Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged three or up run annually in early October at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Kentucky. It is set at a distance of one and one-eighth miles and is a Grade I event with a purse of $500,000.

The Spinster, sponsored by Juddmonte Farms beginning in 2005, is a major prep for the Breeders' Cup Distaff and one of the most important weight-for-age stakes races exclusively for fillies and mares.

The fastest time run at its current Distance, 1:47.00, was set by two horses: Bayakoa in 1990, and Banshee Breeze in 1998, both during the years when times were recorded to fifths of a second. In 1999, Keeper Hill won in a time of 1:47.19.

In time for the 2006 edition of the Spinster Stakes, Keeneland replaced its traditional dirt track with the synthetic surface, Polytrack.

[edit] Records

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

[edit] Winners of the Spinster Stakes

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
2007 Panty Raid Garrett Gomez Todd A. Pletcher Glencrest Farm 1:51.30
2006 Asi Siempre Julien Leparoux Patrick Biancone Martin S. Schwartz 1:51.97
2005 Pampered Princess Eddie Castro Martin D. Wolfson Martin L. Cherry 1:53.91
2004 Azeri Pat Day D. Wayne Lukas Allen E. Paulson 1:49.74
2003 Take Charge Lady Edgar Prado Kenneth G. McPeek Select Stable 1:49.57
2002 Take Charge Lady Edgar Prado Kenneth G. McPeek Select Stable 1:49.90
2001 Miss Linda Richard Migliore John C. Kimmel Ackerley Brothers Farm 1:49.79
2000 Plenty of Light Garrett Gomez W. Elliott Walden Aaron U. & Marie Jones 1:48.18
1999 Keeper Hill Kent Desormeaux Robert J. Frankel C. R. McGaughey III 1:47.19
1998 Banshee Breeze Robby Albarado Carl Nafzger James B. Tafel 1:47.00
1997 Clear Mandate Pat Day George R. Arnold, Jr. G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. 1:50.40
1996 Different Chris McCarron Ron McAnally Sidney H. Craig 1:49.60
1995 Inside Information Mike E. Smith C. R. McGaughey III Ogden Mills Phipps 1:50.00
1994 Dispute Pat Day C. R. McGaughey III Ogden Mills Phipps 1:48.80
1993 Paseana Chris McCarron Ron McAnally Sidney H. Craig 1:48.40
1992 Fowda Pat Valenzuela Alex L. Hassinger, Jr. Allen E. Paulson 1:49.80
1991 Wilderness Song Pat Day James E. Day Sam-Son Farm 1:49.60
1990 Bayakoa Laffit Pincay, Jr. Ron McAnally Frank E. Whitham 1:47.00
1989 Bayakoa Laffit Pincay, Jr. Ron McAnally Frank E. Whitham 1:47.80
1988 Hail a Cab Jacinto Vasquez Philip M. Hauswald John A. Bell III 1:51.00
1987 Sacahuista Randy Romero D. Wayne Lukas L.R. French, Jr./Barry Beal 1:48.60
1986 Top Corsage Sandy Hawley Jerry M. Fanning Dan J. Agnew 1:48.20
1985 Dontstop Themusic Laffit Pincay, Jr. Randy Winick Albert R. Broccoli 1:50.40
1984 Princess Rooney Ed Delahoussaye Neil Drysdale Paula Tucker 1:50.40
1983 Try Something New Pat Day C. R. McGaughey III John A. Bell III 1:49.80
1982 Track Robbery Pat Valenzuela John W. Russell Summa Stable 1:47.40
1981 Glorious Song Robin Platts John Cairns F. Stronach / N. B. Hunt 1:49.20
1980 Bold 'n Determined Ed Delahoussaye Neil Drysdale Saron Stable 1:49.20
1979 Safe Earlie Fires Joseph M. Bollero Elizabeth J. Brisbine 1:49.20
1978 Tempest Queen Jorge Velasquez Lou Rondinello John W. Galbreath 1:49.00
1977 Cum Laude Laurie Angel Cordero, Jr. Lou Rondinello Daniel M. Galbreath 1:48.40
1976 Optimistic Gal Craig Perret Leroy Jolley Diana M. Firestone 1:51.60
1975 Susan's Girl Laffit Pincay, Jr. Thomas W. Kelley Fred W. Hooper 1:49.80
1974 Summer Guest Daryl Montoya Elliott Burch Rokeby Stable 1:48.40
1973 Susan's Girl Braulio Baeza C. R. Parke Fred W. Hooper 1:48.80
1972 Numbered Account Laffit Pincay, Jr. Roger Laurin Ogden Phipps 1:47.40
1971 Chou Croute Robert Kotenko Robert G. Dunham E. V. Benjamin III et al 1:49.00
1970 Taken Aback Eddie Belmonte H. Allen Jerkens Hobeau Farm 1:51.40
1969 Gallant Bloom John L. Rotz William J. Hirsch King Ranch 1:48.80
1968 Sale Day Eric Guerin John Winans Louise Clements 1:51.60
1967 Straight Deal Howard Grant John W. Jacobs Ethel D. Jacobs 1:49.20
1966 Open Fire Braulio Baeza Virgil W. Raines Brandywine Stable 1:50.40
1965 Star Maggie Bill Hartack R. E. Wingfield James T. Jones 1:50.20
1964 Old Hat Don Brumfield C. C. Norman Stanley Conrad 1:48.40
1963 Lamb Chop Manuel Ycaza James W. Maloney William Haggin Perry 1:48.40
1962 Primonetta Bill Shoemaker James P. Conway Darby Dan Farm 1:48.40
1961 Bowl of Flowers Eddie Arcaro Elliott Burch Brookmeade Stable 1:49.60
1960 Rash Statement John L. Rotz Allen R. Hultz Hal Price Headley 1:49.60
1959 Royal Native Bill Hartack Kenny Noe, Sr. Perne L. Grissom 1:49.40
1958 Bornastar Ken Church W. G. Sparks J. Graham Brown 1:49.40
1957 Bornastar Ken Church W. G. Sparks J. Graham Brown 1:49.20
1956 Doubledogdare John Heckmann Moody Jolley Claiborne Farm 1:49.20