Jeff Ruby Tops Turfway's Winter-Spring Stakes Schedule

Twenty stakes races worth a total of nearly $4 million will highlight Turfway Park's winter/spring meet, anchored by the 55th running of the $777,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) March 21. The Jeff Ruby is a Championship Series race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Jan. 1-March 28 winter/spring meet follows the Holiday Meet from Dec. 3-27. The Holiday Meet features seven stakes led by Synthetic Championships Night Dec. 13, offering $1 million across four stakes races. All stakes purses at both meets include contributions from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund. Combined, the Holiday and winter/spring meets will offer $5.4 million in stakes purses. Jeff Ruby Steaks day March 21 will showcase six stakes, including the $300,000 TwinSpires Kentucky Cup Classic (G3) and the $300,000 Bourbonette Oaks, a Championship Series race on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks. The supporting stakes on the card include the $250,000 Latonia, the $250,000 Animal Kingdom, and $250,000 Rushaway. Other notable events during the winter/spring meet include the $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial Feb. 21—a Prep Season race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, and the $175,000 Cincinnati Trophy, one night earlier, on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks. Daily first post times, aside from Jeff Ruby Steaks Day, will be 5:55 p.m. ET. Jeff Ruby Steaks Day will get started at 12:45 p.m. The complete winter/spring meet stakes schedule is below: