Regret Stakes

The Regret Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies over a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the Turf scheduled annually in mid-June near the end of the Spring Meet at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The event offers a purse of $275,000.

History
The race is named for Harry Payne Whitney's champion filly Regret, the first filly to win the 1915 Kentucky Derby. In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th century, she is #71 and in a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, she was voted the third greatest filly in American racing history. Regret was undefeated as a two-year-old, she made her three-year-old debut in the Derby, winning in wire-to-wire fashion.

The race was inaugural running on 16 May 1970 and was run over a distance of 6 furlongs and won by Tree Pigeons ridden by veteran jockey Tommy Barrows in a fast time of 1:10$1 1/8$. The Regret Stakes was run at six furlongs for its first twelve runnings (1970–1981). From 1982 to 1987 the race was run at a distance of one mile and from 1988 to 2002 it was run at $4/5$ miles. From 2003 to present it has been run at its current distance of $1 1/16$ miles.

The event was classified a Grade III event for the first time in 1999.

The event has been run in division four times - in 1974, 1976, 1980 and 1982.

Records
Speed record:
 * $1 1/8$ miles – 1:47.31 - Lady of Venice (2006)
 * $1 1/8$ miles – 1:42.14 - Packet (1994)

Margins:
 * 7 lengths – Amazing Love (1982)
 * 7 lengths – Red Cross (1975)


 * Most wins by a jockey
 * 4 - Julien Leparoux (2006, 2008, 2015, 2022)


 * Most wins by a trainer
 * 4 - William I. Mott (1984, 1986, 1991, 2020)


 * Most wins by an owner
 * 2 - Leslie Combs II (1971, 1977)
 * 2 - Golden Chance Farm (1974, 1976)
 * 2 - Hiram Polk, Jr. (1984, 1991)

Winners
Legend: Notes: † In 1977, Time for Pleasure won but was disqualified after laying in the stretch and was placed second. ‡ In 2014, A Little Bit Sassy won but was disqualified for interfering with Kiss Moon and was placed fourth. Aurelia's Belle who finished second was declared the winner.

§ Ran as part of an entry