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Spinster Stakes

Spinster Stakes
Grade I race
Location Keeneland Race Course
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Inaugurated 1956
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website Keeneland
Race information
Distance 1 18 miles (9 Furlongs)
Surface Dirt
Track Left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds & up, fillies & mares
Weight Weight-for-age
Purse $500,000

The Spinster Stakes (also known as the "Juddmonte Spinster" with Juddmonte Farms sponsorship) is an American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged three or up run annually in early October at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Kentucky. It is set at a distance of one and one-eighth miles and is a Grade I event with a current purse of $500,000.

The Spinster, sponsored by Prince Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms beginning in 2005, is a major prep for the Breeders' Cup Distaff and one of the most important weight-for-age stakes races exclusively for fillies and mares. Now part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, the winner of the 2008 Frizette Stakes automatically qualifies for the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic.

In time for the 2006 edition of the Spinster Stakes, Keeneland replaced its traditional dirt track with the synthetic surface, Polytrack synthetic dirt. In 2014, the Polytrack was replaced by a new dirt surface.

On new dirt surface:

On synthetic dirt:

On old dirt surface:


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