The Sycamore Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 held annually at Keeneland Race Course

Keeneland

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 in Lexington, Kentucky

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. A Grade III

Graded stakes race

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 event open to horses age three and older, it is contested on turf

Grass

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 over a distance of 1½ miles.

Inaugurated in 1995, the Sycamore Stakes was run at a distance of 1⅝ miles from inception through 2000.

Due to extremely wet conditions, the Sycamore was run "off the turf" on the polytrack in 2011. It was also run at 1 and 5/8ths mile, originally scheduled for 1 and 1/2 miles. It has yet to be determined if it will retain its grade for this running.

Records

Speed record:

• 2:29.55 - Sharbayan (2003)
• 2:39.40 - Sanagas for the 2011 running broke the track record for this distance.

Most wins:

• 3 - Rochester (2001, 2002, 2005)

Winners since 2003

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Sanagas	5	Rajiv Maragh Rajiv Maragh Rajiv Maragh is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. An Indo-Jamaican, he is the son of a jockey who rode in Jamaica before relocating to Florida where he began a career as a horse trainer....	Graham Motion	Andreas Jacobs	2:39.40
2010	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....	9	Calvin Borel Calvin Borel Calvin H. Borel is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby...	Buff Bradley	Fred Bradley	2:30.73
2009	Cloudy's Knight Cloudy's Knight Cloudy's Knight is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.Out of Northern Dancer's grandadaughter, Cloudy Spot, he was sired by the 1980 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Lord Avie...	9	Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Both of Homeister's parents were jockeys and as a result she grew up riding horses. Her mother is now a horse trainer at the Calder Race Course where Rosemary won her first race as an apprentice jockey...	Jonathan E. Sheppard Jonathan E. Sheppard Jonathan E. Sheppard is a Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing....	S J Stables LLC	2:30.87
2008	Always First	7	Rene Douglas	Thomas Voss	Merriefield Farm	2:30.98
2007	Transduction Gold	4	James Graham	John Glenney	Kim & John Glenney	2:31.96
2006	Revved Up	8	Garrett Gomez Garrett K. Gomez Garrett Keith Gomez is an American thoroughbred jockey.-Early career:Gomez learned to ride by watching his father, Louie, who was a jockey at many tracks in the Southwest United States...	Christophe Clement Christophe Clement Christophe Clement is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States.- Racing background :Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head...	Live Oak Plantation Racing	2:29.83
2005	Rochester	9	Gary L. Stevens	Jonathan E. Sheppard Jonathan E. Sheppard Jonathan E. Sheppard is a Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing....	Augustin Stable	2:34.30
2004	Mustanfar	3	Jose Santos José Santos Jose Abon Santos is a retired Chilean thoroughbred jockey who has been honored by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in the United States.-Career:...	Kiaran P. McLaughlin	Shadwell Stable	2:30.88
2003	Sharbayan	5	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...	Wallace A. Dollase	Iron County Farms/Jess Miller Trust	2:29.55