The Rushaway Stakes is a race for thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horses held in late March at Turfway Park

Turfway Park

Turfway Park is an American horse racing track located just outside the city limits to the north of Florence, Kentucky, about 10 miles south of the Ohio River at Cincinnati...

. The race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one mile on the dirt. An ungraded stakes

Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 event, it offers a purse of $100,000.

The Rushaway is named in honor of a black colt born in 1933. Rushaway made 107 starts. The very day he won the Illinois Derby

Illinois Derby

The Illinois Derby is a race for Thoroughbred horses held in early April each year. First run in 1923, the Derby takes place at Hawthorne Race Course located in Stickney/Cicero, Illinois, just west of Chicago...

 in 1936, he was immediately vanned to Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

 to start in and win the Latonia Derby

Latonia Derby

The Latonia Derby was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually from 1883 through 1937 at Latonia Race Track in Latonia, Kentucky. Open to three-year-old horses, for its first 52 years the Latonia Derby was contested at a mile and a half; in 1935, the race was shortened to a mile and a...

 on the following day.

Past winners

• 2011 - Swift Warrior - (Javier Castellano
  Javier Castellano
  Javier Castellano is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Castellano began his riding career in his native Venezuela in 1996 and in June 1997 moved to the United States where rode at race tracks in southern Florida until 2001 when he moved to race on the New York State racing circuit.In...
  
  )
• 2010 - Exhi - (Russell Baze
  Russell Baze
  Russell Avery Baze is a horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame....
  
  )
• 2009 - Cliffy's Future - Jesus Castanon
  Jesus Castanon
  Jesus Lopez Castanon is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who won the 2011 Preakness Stakes. The son of a horse trainer, two brothers were also jockeys in Mexico. Castanon got his first win at Agua Caliente Racetrack in 1989 and later that year in the United States, won the Torrey...
  
  
• 2008 - Big Glen - 1:44.55 (Rene Douglas)
• 2007 - Dominican - 1:43 2/5 (Rafael Bejarano)
• 2006 - High Cotton
• 2005 - Cat Shaker
• 2004 - Brass Hat
  Brass Hat
  Brass Hat is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He is out of the mare Brassy and sired by Prized, winner of the 1989 Breeders' Cup Turf and a son of the highly successful sire Kris S....
  
  
• 2003 - Private Gold
• 2002 - Mr. Mellon
• 2001 - Percy Hope
  Percy Hope
  Percy Hope was an American thoroughbred racehorse who won the Rushaway Stakes and the Lone Star Derby in 2001. He started in the 2001 Preakness Stakes, finishing 9th....
  
  
• 2000 - Ronton (Garrett Gomez)
• 1999 - Yankee Victor
• 1998 - Shot of Gold
• 1995 - Key Guy
• 1994 - Oakmont
• 1988 - Dey Lance