Pat Day Mile Stakes Trial, but returned to sweep the Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont 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
Cacique (horse) in New York, he won his second Grade I race there, capturing the Man o' War Stakes. Ridden by jockey Edgar Prado in the final race of his career, Cacique finished tenth in an eleven-horse field behind winner Red Rocks in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Cacique (horse) Cacique (foaled 2001 in Ireland) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in Europe and the United States. Bred and raced by Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms, Cacique is the son of the great international Champion sire, Danehill. He was out of the fantastic mare, Hasili whose damsire,