Jefferson Cup Stakes

The Jefferson Cup Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in mid-June near the end of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky. A race on turf, it is open to three-year-old horses of either gender.

For 2010, the purse was dropped from $200,000 to $100,000 and the race was downgraded from a Grade II event at a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs) to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.

Since inception, the Jefferson Cup Stakes has been contested at various distances:
 * 5.5 furlongs : 1977–1981
 * $1 1/16$ miles : 1982, 2010–2013
 * $1 1/16$ miles : 1983–2009

Records

 * Speed record
 * $1 1/8$ miles – 1:47.27 – King Cugat (2000)
 * $1 1/8$ miles – 1:43.66 – Banned (2011)

Earlier winners

 * 1993 – Lt. Pinkerton (1:48.27)
 * 1992 – Senor Thomas (1:49.80)
 * 1991 – Hanging Curve (1:50.89)
 * 1990 – Divine Warning (1:52.20)
 * 1989 – Shy Tom (1:49.20)
 * 1988 – Stop the Stage (1:51.60)
 * 1987 – Fast Forward (1:50)
 * 1986 – Buffalo Beau (1:52.80)
 * 1985 – Aveys Brother (1:50)
 * 1984 – Coax Me Chad (1:50.60)
 * 1983 – Pron Regard (1:51.60)
 * 1982 – Wavering Monarch (1:44.20)
 * 1981 – Talent Town (1:05.40)
 * 1980 – Golden Derby (1:04.20)
 * 1979 – Rockhill Native (1:05.20)
 * 1978 – Future Hope (1:05.20)
 * 1977 – Old Jake (1:04.80)