Wikipedia / Beaumont Stakes
Wikipedia / Beaumont Stakes
The Beaumont Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies over a distance of 7 furlongs and 184 feet on the dirt held annually in early April at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the spring meeting.
History
The race is named in honor of the Beaumont Farm of Hal Price Headley, one of Keeneland's founders. The Beaumont is run on the Beard Course which is named after Major Louie Beard, another one of Keeneland's founders.
The event was inaugurated on 5 April 1986 and was won by Classy Cathy, trained by the former jockey Joseph M. Bollero in a time of .
The event was classified as Grade III in 1990 when it was won by the ill-fated 1989 US Champion Two-Year-Old, Go For Wand. In 1993 the event was upgraded to Grade II and held that class until 2016 when it was downgraded back to Grade III.
In 2023 the American Graded Stakes Committee upgraded the event to Grade II status.
Records
Speed record
1:23.85 – A Fine Chardonnay (2026)
Margins
lengths Go For Wand (1990), Matareya (2022)
Most wins by a jockey
4 – Pat Day (1994, 1997, 1998, 2003)
Most wins by a trainer
3 – Brad H. Cox (2022, 2023, 2024)
Most wins by an owner
2 – Jan Siegel Mace Siegel & Samantha Siegel (1991, 1992)
2 – William S. Farish III (1987, 1997)
2 - Godolphin (2022, 2025)
Winners
Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time | Purse | Grade | Ref |
2026 | A Fine Chardonnay | Double 22 Stables | 1:23.85 | $400,000 | II | |||
2025 | Verity | Eoin Harty | 1:27.18 | $365,000 | II | |||
2024 | Denim and Pearls | Red White and Blue Racing | 1:26.54 | $395,063 | II | |||
2023 | Key of Life | Flurry Racing Stables & Hoffman Family Racing | 1:27.32 | $390,250 | II | |||
2022 | Matareya | 1:27.55 | $400,000 | III | ||||
2021 | Twenty Carat | 1:26.04 | $150,000 | III | ||||
2020 | Four Graces | Whitham Thoroughbreds | 1:24.90 | $98,000 | III | |||
2019 | Fancy Dress Party | Ben Colebrook | LNJ Foxwoods | 1:28.18 | $147,000 | III | ||
2018 | Gas Station Sushi | Richard Baltas | Riley Racing Stables, Jason Tackitt, Megan J. Tackitt & Mike Hensen | 1:26.77 | $150,000 | III | ||
2017 | Sweet Loretta | St. Elias Stable | 1:27.77 | $150,000 | III | |||
2016 | Lightstream | Brian A. Lynch | Up Hill Stable & Head of Plains Partners | 1:26.27 | $150,000 | III | ||
2015 | Miss Ella | Jack Swain III | 1:28.11 | $250,000 | II | |||
2014 | Ready to Act | Klaravich Stables & William Lawrence | 1:28.08 | $200,000 | II | |||
2013 | Ciao Bella Luna | Gillian Campbell, William Martin, Car-Den Racing Stable & Greenwood Lodge Farm | 1:26.92 | $150,000 | II | |||
2012 | Gypsy Robin | Jeffrey Sanchez | King 9 Stables, Bell, Gatewood, Bret Jones & Wesley A. Ward | 1:28.46 | $150,000 | II | ||
2011 | Mike Puype | Blinkers On Racing Stable, Strauss, Aurelio, Butler, Coons, Lapso, et al. | 1:26.12 | $150,000 | II | |||
2010 | Franny Freud | John P. Terranova II | Paul Pompa Jr., Stephen Yarbrough & Anthony Grey | 1:26.89 | $150,000 | II | ||
2009 | War Kill | Dixiana Stables | 1:25.97 | $150,000 | II | |||
2008 | Ariege | IEAH Stables & Pegasus Stables | 1:25.81 | $250,000 | II | |||
2007 | Street Sounds | Hidden Creek Farm | 1:24.93 | $250,000 | II | |||
2006 | Diplomat Lady | Christopher S. Paasch | Charles Cono | 1:27.97 | $250,000 | II | ||
2005 | In the Gold | Live Oak Plantation | 1:26.04 | $250,000 | II | |||
2004 | Victory U. S. A. | Thomas F. Van Meter II | 1:27.06 | $250,000 | II | |||
2003 | My Boston Gal | J. Chester Porter, Randy Bloch & Phil Milner | 1:26.87 | $250,000 | II | |||
2002 | Proper Gamble | Stoneway Farm | 1:28.79 | $250,000 | II | |||
2001 | John E. Salzman Sr. | Kenneth Taylor & John E. Salzman Sr. | 1:27.86 | $250,000 | II | |||
2000 | Sahara Gold | 1:26.58 | $136,850 | II | ||||
1999 | Swingin On Ice | Don Amos | 1:25.61 | $135,350 | II | |||
1998 | Star of Broadway | James C. Spence | 1:26.67 | $147,000 | II | |||
1997 | Make Haste | 1:28.08 | $139,125 | II | ||||
Screamer | Roberta Mary Zuckerman | |||||||
1996 | Golden Gale | 1:26.10 | $136,125 | II | ||||
1995 | Dixieland Gold | Louis M. Goldfine | Arthur I. Appleton | 1:27.42 | $112,700 | II | ||
1994 | Her Temper | Mark Stanley | 1:28.41 | $108,800 | II | |||
1993 | Roamin Rachel | Tri Honors Stable | 1:26.48 | $108,800 | II | |||
1992 | § Fluttery Danseur | Brian A. Mayberry | 1:27.46 | $82,950 | III | |||
1991 | Ifyoucouldseemenow | Brian A. Mayberry | 1:27.01 | $83,500 | III | |||
1990 | William Badgett Jr. | 1:26.40 | $83,050 | III | ||||
1989 | Exquisite Mistress | Joseph E. Broussard | Kimbrough & Ladiner | 1:28.60 | $56,575 | |||
1988 | On To Royalty | Hidden Oak Stable | 1:26.60 | $75,200 | ||||
1987 | Fold the Flag | Del W. Carroll II | 1:28.20 | $68,850 | ||||
1986 | Classy Cathy | Joseph M. Bollero | Edward A. Cox Jr. | 1:27.60 | $57,550 |
Legend: Notes: † Exact distance is 7 furlongs and 184 feet run on the Beard Course § Ran as part of an entry
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