Pat Day Mile Stakes Pat Day Mile Stakes The Pat Day Mile Stakes is an American Grade 3 Thoroughbred horse race held on Kentucky Derby day run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky for three-year-olds willing to race one mile on the dirt. The current purse is $250,000 for the event. Originally, the event was known as the Derby Trial Stakes and was held one week before the Kentucky Derby. It was first run in 1924 and every year since, with the exception of 1928. The race name was given similar to races in Britain which preceded the Epsom Derby such as the Investec
Anthony Downs (race track) Anthony Downs (race track) Anthony Downs was an American horse racing track located in Anthony, Harper County, Kansas. The track opened for its first season of racing in 1904. The track also held Greyhound racing events in addition to horse racing. When the Kansas Legislature revised the law allowing simulcast wagering at all Kansas horse tracks, a Horse Racing Benefit Fund was created 1992 to subsidize Eureka Downs, Rooks County, and Anthony Downs, funded by a portion of the tax revenue from the larger tracks. After the Wichita Greyhound Park closed in 2007 and The Woodlands (race track) closed in