Bourbonette Oaks

The Bourbonette Oaks Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Turfway Park at Florence, Kentucky. Open to three-year-old fillies, the event is contested on Tapeta over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs). The race is a Grade III event with a purse of $150,000 and has been a prep race to the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, including the Kentucky Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes.

Run during the third week of March, the Bourbonette Oaks currently offers a purse of $100,000.

Inaugurated in 1983, the race was run in two divisions in 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1990. In 1986, it was run in three divisions.

Records

Speed record

• 1:40.80 – Preach (1992)

Most wins by a jockey

• 6 – Pat Day (1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2002)

Most wins by a trainer

• 5 – Mark E. Casse (1983, 1986, 1990, 2006, 2007)

Most wins by an owner

• 2 – Taylor Asbury (1983, 1988)
• 2 – Claiborne Farm (1992, 2000)

Winners

• † In 2003 Golden Marlin won the race but was disqualified and set back to second.

See also

• Road to the Kentucky Oaks

References

• The 2008 Bourbonette Oaks Stakes at the NTRA