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Bourbonette Oaks

Bourbonette Oaks
Grade III race
Location Turfway Park
Florence, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated 1983
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.turfway.com
Race information
Distance 1 mile (8 furlongs)
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Three-year-old fillies
Weight Assigned
Purse $100,000

The Bourbonette Oaks Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Turfway Park at Florence, Kentucky. Open to three-year-old fillies, the event is contested on dirt over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs). The race is a Grade III event with a purse of $150,000 and has been a prep race to the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, including the Kentucky Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes.

Run during the third week of March, the Bourbonette Oaks currently offers a purse of $100,000.

Inaugurated in 1983, the race was run in two divisions in 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1990. In 1986, it was run in three divisions.


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