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The Jessamine Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old filles held annually at Keeneland in Lexington Kentucky. It is currently a Grade IIT stakes race run over a distance of 8.5 furlongs on turf.The American Graded Stakes Committee made it a Graded stakes race for the first time in 2011. [1]The race is currently part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge series and sponsored by JP Morgan Chase.