Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Derby Trial Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of April at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky. Held one week before the Kentucky Derby it was first run in 1924 and every year since with the exception of 1928. A Grade III stakes with a current purse of $150000 it’s open to three-year-olds willing to race one mile on the dirt however its distance from 2007 to 2009 was 7.5 furlongs.