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The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of November at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky. A Grade II event the race is open to two-year-olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. Inaugurated in 1920 [1] the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes was contested at a distance of one mile from its inception through 1979.