2018-19 Media Guide
2018-19 Media Guide Kentucky’s Winter Racetrack • Home of the Jeff Ruby Steaks & Bourbonette Oaks 2019 Jeff Ruby Steaks winner Somelikeithotbrown. Coady Photography TURFWAY PARK MILESTONES August 27, 1959 April 9, 1986 May 19, 1990 Latonia Race Track opens in Florence, Ken- Jerry Carroll and partners purchase Latonia Summer Squall wins the Preakness Stakes, tucky, running a 34-day meet. Highest for $13.5 million and rename it Turfway becoming the first Jim Beam Stakes winner one-day attendance is 11,415; top one-day Park. Price Pike, which fronts the facility, is to take a Triple Crown race. handle is $427,647. The name recalls the renamed Turfway Road. original Latonia, which operated from 1883 January 1992 to 1939 about 10 miles north of Florence. September 14, 1986 Hansel becomes the first Jim Beam Stakes Trained by Jack Van Berg, Alysheba breaks winner to earn an Eclipse Award, taking top September 9, 1968 his maiden in Turfway’s third race. Famously 3-year-old honors for his wins in the 1991 Jim On the first day of the Fall Meet, Latonia pres- dismissed as “the pony from Latonie” by Beam, Preakness, and Belmont stakes. ents the first Thoroughbred race in Kentucky training legend Woody Stephens, Aly- to be run at night. sheba later wins the 1987 Kentucky Derby May 2, 1992 and Preakness, finishes second by a nose Lil E. Tee becomes the first Jim Beam Stakes September 24, 1969 in the 1987 Breeders’ Cup Classic, is 1988 winner to win the Kentucky Derby. Judes Song wins at 241-1 and pays $484.40, Horse of the Year, and retires as the then-richest March 27, 1993 highest win payoff in the track’s days as Thoroughbred in history.
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