Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes The Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes was an English Thoroughbred horse race intended to become an annual race, but was run only one time on 18 March 2009 at Kempton Park Racecourse in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey. Open to three-year-old European horses, it was raced clockwise at a distance of nine furlongs ( miles, app. 1800 metres) on Polytrack. The winner of the race was guaranteed one of the twenty starting spots in the mile (10 furlongs) 2009 Kentucky Derby held on the first Saturday in May on the dirt track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race
Arlington Classic 1929–1973, 1977–1987, 1989-1993. Since its inception, the Arlington Classic has been contested over a variety of distances: Speed record: (at current miles distance) Largest margin of victory: Most wins by an owner: Most wins by a jockey: Most wins by a trainer: Legend: Notes: ¶ Filly † Held at Washington Park Race Track Arlington Classic The Arlington Classic Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three year old horses over a distance of miles on the turf held annually in late May at Arlington Park race track near Chicago, Illinois. The event was inaugurated in 1929 as