Breeders' Futurity Stakes

Horseraces infobox
class = Grade I
horse race = Breeders' Futurity Stakes


caption =
location = Keeneland Race Course
Lexington, Kentucky flagicon|USA
inaugurated = 1910
race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing
website = [http://ww2.keeneland.com/racing/default.aspx Keeneland racing]
distance = 11/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
track = Dirt, left-handed
qualification = Two-year-olds
weight = Fillies, 118 lbs.
Colts and Geldings, 121lbs
purse = $500,000
bonuses = The Breeders' Futurity Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early October at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. Currently offering a purse of $500,000, the race is open to two-year-old horses and is run at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on dirt. Since 1997 the race has been sponsored by Lane's End Farm.

Part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, the winner of the 2008 Breeders' Futurity Stakes automatically qualifies for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. [http://www.breederscup.com/challenge.aspx]

It was first raced at the Kentucky Association track in Lexington in 1910 and was renewed each year thereafter through 1930. In 1931 through 1935, the race was shifted to the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky. The Futurity was revived at Keeneland in the fall of 1938 and during World War II, from 1943 through 1945 was renewed as part of the Churchill Downs fall meetings.

The race was a Grade III event from 1973-1975, a Grade II from 1976 through 2003, and became a Grade 1 stakes in 2004. Over the years, it has been raced at various distances:
* Six furlongs from 1938-1949
* Seven furlongs from 1950-1955
* Seven furlongs, 184 feet from 1956-1980
* 11/16 miles from 1981-present

Records (since 1938)

Fastest Time: (at Current Distance 11/16 miles)
* 1:42.20 - Polar Expedition (1993)

Most wins by an owner:
* 5 - Claiborne Farm (1956, 1963, 1968, 1983, 1987)

Most wins by a jockey:
* 5 - Don Brumfield (1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1979)

Most wins by a trainer:
* 6 - D. Wayne Lukas (1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004)

Winners of the Breeders' Futurity Stakes since 1938

Earlier winners

*1937: "No race"
*1936: "No race"
*1935: "No race"
*1934: "No race"
*1933: Mata Hari
*1932: Technique
*1931: The Bull
*1930: Mate
*1929: Gallant Knight
*1928: Current

*1927: Wacker Drive
*1926: Wood Lore
*1925: Flight of Time
*1924: Candy Kid
*1923: Worthmore
*1922: Donges
*1921: Gentility
*1920: Believe Idle Hour
*1919: Blazes

*1918: Colonel Livingston
*1917: Escoba
*1916: Harry Kelly
*1915: Kinney
*1914: Luke
*1913: Imperator
*1912: Helios
*1911: The Manager
*1910: Housemaid