Kentucky Cup
The Kentucky Cup Classic Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late September as part of Kentucky Cup Day at Turfway Park in the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb of Florence, Kentucky. A Grade II event for three-year-olds and up, the Kentucky Cup Classic currently offers a purse of $350,000 and is set at a distance of 1⅛ miles on the dirt.
With 14 years of proof on the books, the Kentucky Cup Day of Champions is firmly established as a top stop on the way to the Breeders' Cup World Championships and Eclipse awards. Since its first running in 1994, Kentucky Cup Day has prepped six Breeders' Cup winners, six Eclipse Award winners and numerous Grade I winners and stakes-placed competitors.