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The Aegon Turf Sprint Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

held annually at Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs, located in Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs...

in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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. Previously known as the Churchill Downs Turf Sprint Stakes, it is a five furlong

Furlong

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sprint

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

on turf

Grass

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open to horses age three and older.

In 2010, Silver Timber set the course record of 0.55.45.

Records

Speed record:

5 Furlongs - 0:55.45 - Silver Timber (2010)

Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
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2 - Julien R. Leparoux (2006 & 2010)
2 - Jerry Bailey
Jerry Bailey
Jerry D. Bailey is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey. He began his racing career in November 1974. His first mount was on a horse named Pegged Rate, who ran off the board. He notched his first career win the next day on his second career mount, Fetch, at New Mexico's Sunland Park, and has...

(1996 & 2002)

Most wins by a trainer
Horse trainer
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2 - W. Bret Calhoun
W. Bret Calhoun
W. Bret Calhoun is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. The son of a school teacher who also owned and trained horses, he attended Texas Tech University but left before graduating....

(2008 & 2009)
2 - Randy Morse (2001 & 2002)
2 - Neil Drysdale
Neil Drysdale
Neil D. Drysdale is an American based thoroughbred race horse trainer.Based in Playa Del Rey, California, he has won two Triple Crown races - the Belmont Stakes with A.P. Indy in 1992 and the Kentucky Derby with Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000...

(1996 & 1998)

Winners of the Aegon Turf Sprint Stakes since 1995

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Distance	Time	Grade
2010	Silver Timber	7	Julien R. Leparoux	Chad C. Brown	Dubb/High Grade Racing Stable	5-fur.	0.55.45	III
2009	Chamberlain Bridge	5	Garrett Gomez	W. Bret Calhoun W. Bret Calhoun W. Bret Calhoun is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. The son of a school teacher who also owned and trained horses, he attended Texas Tech University but left before graduating....	Carl Moore Management	5-fur.	0:57.06	III
2008	Mr. Nightlinger	4	Jamie Theriot Jamie Theriot Jamie Theriot is an American jockey. The son of Thoroughbred horse trainer Harold Theriot, he is a nephew of jockey Larry Melancon....	W. Bret Calhoun W. Bret Calhoun W. Bret Calhoun is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. The son of a school teacher who also owned and trained horses, he attended Texas Tech University but left before graduating....	Martin Racing Stable et al.	5-fur.	0:56.18	III
2007	Gaff	5	John Velazquez	Steve Asmussen Steve Asmussen Steven Mark Asmussen is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas...	Heiligbrodt Racing Stable	5-fur.	0:56.84	III
2006	Man of Illusion	5	Julien Leparoux Julien Leparoux Julien R. Leparoux is a Champion jockey currently racing in the United States.Leparoux, grew up in a racing family, the son of a jockey turned assistant trainer. He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for...	Patrick Biancone Patrick Biancone Patrick Louis Biancone is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is currently based in the United States, but enjoyed success in both Europe and Hong Kong earlier in his career...	Encosta de Lago	5-fur.	0:56.28	III
2005	Mighty Beau	6	Pat Valenzuela Pat Valenzuela Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles, including Ismael Valenzuela, were jockeys. He rode his first career winner on November 10, 1978, at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico...	Jeff Mullins	M. Cloonan/A. Carolan	5-fur.	0:56.18	III
2004	Lydgate	4	Pat Day Pat Day Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...	Eoin G. Harty Eoin G. Harty Eoin G. Harty is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer in the United States. From a family of horsemen, Eoin Harty is the fourth generation to be involved in racing...	Darley Stable	5-fur.	0:56.56	III
2003	Fiscally Speaking	4	Jon Court Jon Court Jon Kenton Court is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Having grown up in Florida, Jon Court began riding in Colorado at the now closed Centennial Park in 1980....	Carl Nafzger Carl Nafzger Carl A. Nafzger is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer. Before he was involved in horseracing he was a championship Rodeo bullrider....	Janis R. Whitman	5-fur.	0:56.01	III
2002	Testify	5	Jerry Bailey	Randy Morse	Robert S. Mitchell Trust	5-fur.	0:57.39	III
2001	Morluc	4	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...	Randy Morse	Michael Cloonan	5-fur.	0:56.60	III
2000	Bold Fact	5	Richard Migliore	John Kimmel John C. Kimmel John C. Kimmel is an American thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He holds a pre-med undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School in 1980.-References:**...	Juddmonte Farms Juddmonte Farms Juddmonte Farms is a famous and award-winning horse breeding farm, owned by Prince Khalid Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. A member of the Saudi Arabian royal family the successful businessman presides over the massive conglomerate Mawared...	5-fur.	0:56.37
1999	Howbaddouwantit	4	Mike E. Smith	Ben Perkins, Jr. Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, he is the son of Ben Perkins, Sr. who conditioned racehorses for close to fifty years. In 1981, Perkins, Jr. won his first race with at Atlantic...	Larry F. Hall	5-fur.	0:57.03
1998	Indian Rocket	4	Gary Stevens	Neil Drysdale	Shadwell Racing Shadwell Racing Shadwell Racing is the Thoroughbred horse racing operations of Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai.Introduced to Thoroughbred flat racing while a student in the United Kingdom, Sheikh Hamdan established his first racing stable there in 1981...	5-fur.	0:57.32
1997	Sandtrap	4	Alex Solis Alex Solis Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...	Ben Cecil	Robert E. Hibbert	5-fur.	0:56.51
1996	Danjur	4	Jerry Bailey	Neil Drysdale	Aaron & Marie Jones	5-fur.	0:56.09
1995	Long Suit	4	Willie Martinez Willie Martinez (jockey) Willie Martinez is a jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.Martinez was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, but emigrated to the United States in 1988 to work as a hotwalker and groom for his sister's godfather at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, New York...	Angel Montano, Sr.	Larry Telle	5-fur.	0:56.90

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