The Fall Championship Stakes is an American Grade III

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...

 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 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...

 in Florence, Kentucky

Florence, Kentucky

Florence is a city in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 29,951 at the 2010 census.-History:The Florence area was originally known as Crossroads, because of the convergence of several roads from Burlington and Union at Ridge Road...

. Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on Polytrack synthetic dirt. It has been part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge

Breeders' Cup Challenge

The Breeders' Cup Challenge is a series of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, France, Hong Kong and Australia in which the winner earns an automatic spot in an American Breeders' Cup race....

 series since 2008 when the distance was changed to one and one half miles (12 furlong

Furlong

A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to 220 yards, 660 feet, 40 rods, or 10 chains. The exact value of the furlong varies slightly among English-speaking countries....

s) with the winner automatically qualifying for the Breeders' Cup Marathon

Breeders' Cup Marathon

The Breeders' Cup Marathon is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race established in 2008 as part of the annual Breeders' Cup World Championships. A Weight for Age race open to horses three years old and up, it was contested on dirt at a distance of 1½ miles in its inaugural running. For 2009,...

 at a similar distance. http://www.breederscup.com/challenge.aspx

The Latonia Championship Stakes was established in 1919 by the Kentucky Jockey Club as a race for three-year-olds at the now defunct Latonia Race Track

Latonia Race Track

Latonia Race Track on Winston Avenue in Latonia Kentucky, six miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened in 1883. The track hosted a spring-summer racing series and a second in late fall. It was once regarded as among the United States' top sites for racing,...

 in Latonia, Kentucky

Latonia, Kentucky

Latonia is a former city, now neighborhood of Covington in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. It was annexed to Covington in 1909.Latonia's geographical coordinates are 39.048N, 84.508W, and its elevation above sea level is 531 feet. It is entirely within the eastern time zone of the United...

, During the height of the Great Depression

Great Depression

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 the race was suspended in 1934 and the racetrack closed permanently in 1939. In 1964, the race was revived by the recently built (1959) Turfway Park.

It was run in two divisions in 1971 and there was no race in 1972.

Distances:

• 1¾ miles : 1919-1933
• 1¹/16 miles : 1968-1987
• 1⅛ miles : 1964-1967, 1988–2002
• 1 mile 2003-2007
• 1½ miles : 2008-2009

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1½ miles)

• 2:32.25 - Delightful Kiss (2008)

Most wins:

• 2 - Crafty Shaw (2002, 2003)

Most wins by a jockey

Jockey

A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

:

• 5 - Mike Manganello
  Mike Manganello
  Michael "Mike" Manganello is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his start working for trainer Odie Clelland as a stable hand then began riding professionally in 1959 and earned his first win on March 3, 1960 at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans...
  
   (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971)

Most wins by a trainer

Horse trainer

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:

• 3 - Thomas H. Stevens (1967, 1969, 1978)
• 3 - William I. Mott (1996, 1998, 2007)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - William R. Coe (1920, 1933)
• 2 - Charles J. Cella
  Charles J. Cella
  Charles J. Cella is president of Southern Real Estate and Financial Company, an executive in the American Thoroughbred horse racing industry, and a racehorse owner....
  
   (2002, 2003)

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2010	Eldaafer	5	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....	Diane Alvarado	Alghuwayriyah Stable	2:32.55
2009	Nite Light	5	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....	Todd A. Pletcher	Edward P. Evans	2:32.55
2008	Delightful Kiss	4	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...	Pete D. Anderson Pete D. Anderson Peter D. Anderson is a retired American jockey and a current Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He began his riding career in the latter part of the late 1940s and was the leading apprentice jockey in New York in 1948...	Hobeau Farm	2:32.25
2007	Istan	5	Larry Melancon Larry Melancon Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....	William I. Mott	Darpat S. L. Stables	1:38.81
2006	Gouldings Green	5	Corey Lanerie	Anthony Reinstedler	Melnyk Racing Stables Eugene Melnyk Eugene Melnyk is a Ukrainian Canadian businessman who now resides in Barbados. He is the current owner, governor, and chairman of the Ottawa Senators professional ice hockey club of the National Hockey League . He also owns the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors junior-age ice hockey club...	1:38.15
2005	Artemus Sunrise	4	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...	Steven Flint	Thad Ackel Thad Ackel Thad Ackel is a retired American thoroughbred horse trainer. He was a California-based trainer and part-owner of Great Communicator, winner of the 1988 Breeders' Cup Turf and Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes as well as the 1989 Hollywood Turf Handicap.Ackel retired from training after his father, George...	1:37.31
2004	Cappuchino	5	Dean Sarvis	Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer is an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and trainer. He has the most wins in the history of Northern California race horse trainers....	G. Todaro/H. Litt/J. Hollendorfer	1:37.19
2003	Crafty Shaw	5	Craig Perret Craig Perret Craig Perret is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding quarter horses in match races...	Peter M. Vestal	Charles J. Cella Charles J. Cella Charles J. Cella is president of Southern Real Estate and Financial Company, an executive in the American Thoroughbred horse racing industry, and a racehorse owner....	1:36.89
2002	Crafty Shaw	4	James Lopez	Peter M. Vestal	Charles J. Cella Charles J. Cella Charles J. Cella is president of Southern Real Estate and Financial Company, an executive in the American Thoroughbred horse racing industry, and a racehorse owner....	1:52.60
2001	Generous Rosi	6	Lonnie Meche	Niall O'Callaghan	Flying Column Stable	1:49.83
2000	Mount Lemon	6	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...	Jere R. Smith, Jr.	Panic Stable	1:51.14
1999	Phil the Grip	5	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...	Niall O'Callaghan	Paul H. Saylor	1:52.15
1998	Acceptable	4	Craig Perret Craig Perret Craig Perret is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding quarter horses in match races...	William I. Mott	Kinsman Stable Kinsman Stable Kinsman Stable is the nom de course for the American Thoroughbred racing stable of George Steinbrenner, best known as the owner of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball team...	1:51.95
1997	Tejano Run Tejano Run Tejano Run is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Catesby W.Clay at his Runnymede Farm , he was purchased and raced by Roy K. Monroe and his wife, Joyce....	5	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...	Kenneth McPeek Kenneth McPeek Kenneth G. McPeek is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Kenneth G. McPeek was born August 2, 1962 in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Tates Creek High School and then the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration...	Roy K. Monroe	1:49.44
1996	Strawberry Wine	4	Brian Peck	William I. Mott	G. Hudson & B. Lunsford Bruce Lunsford William Bruce Lunsford is an American Democratic politician from Kentucky. He has served various roles in the Kentucky Democratic Party including, Party treasurer, Deputy Development Secretary, and Head of Commerce...	1:50.15
1995	Bound by Honor	4	Randy Romero Randy Romero Randy Paul Romero is a Hall of Fame jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing, Born into a family involved with horses, his father Lloyd J...	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....	Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Phillips	1:51.54
1994	Meena	6	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...	Bobby C. Barnett	John A. Franks John A. Franks John Franks was an American businessman and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. A native of Haughton, Louisiana, he earned a degree in geology from Louisiana State University. In 1962, he founded the highly successful Franks Petroleum Inc. and later invested in real estate with Franks...	1:52.92
1993	Powerful Punch	4	Curt Bourque Curt Bourque Curt C. Bourque is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his riding career in 1984 at Evangeline Downs in Lafayette, Louisiana and won his first race later that year at Jefferson Downs Racetrack....	Harvey L. Vanier Harvey L. Vanier Harvey L. Vanier is a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. With his wife Nancy Aiken-Vanier, they own and breed racehorses on their Fairberry Farm in Waterloo, Illinois.-References:* *...	Russell Reineman Stable	1:50.51
1992	Flying Continental	6	Jorge Velasquez Jorge Velasquez Jorge Velásquez is a thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.Jorge Velasquez career in thoroughbred racing began in his native Panama but as a teenager moved to the United States...	Jesse Wigginton	R. Harris & N. Yearsley	1:48.67
1991	Allijeba	5	James Bruin	Larry Robideaux	Robert Allensworth	1:49.60
1990	Aly Mar	4	Dean Kutz	William H. Fires William H. Fires William H. "Jinks" Fires is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is the trainer of 2011 Arkansas Derby winner Archarcharch who is scheduled to run in the Kentucky Derby....	Calumet Farm Calumet Farm Calumet Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of Lexington's blue grass country, the finest horse breeding region in...	1:49.20
1989	Currentsville Lane	4	W. John Neagle	Frank Faircloth	W. Crump & P. Crump	1:51.60
1988	Mr. Odie	4	Steve Neff	David Burgan	JoJo Farm	1:52.40
1987	Lord Glacier	4	Mickey Solomone	Donald B. Plummer	H. M. Crombie	1:43.60
1986	Big Pistol	5	Larry Melancon Larry Melancon Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....	Lynn S. Whiting	W. Cal Partee	1:42.80
1985	Country Hick	4	Julio Espinoza	Alois W. Best	Alois W. Best	1:43.00
1984	Immediate Reaction	4	Michael McDowell	Gregory Foley	Heslop Stables	1:43.80
1983	Cad	5	Don Brumfield Don Brumfield Donald Alan Brumfield is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.During his thirty-five year career, Brumfield won 4,573 races in 33,222 rides. He retired from racing in 1989. Brumfield was the "track all-time leading rider in terms of races won " at Churchill Downs, where he won 16 riding titles...	Dave Kassen	Double Eagle Stables	1:44.00
1982	Leader Jet	4	Charles Woods, Jr.	Neil J. Howard Neil J. Howard Neil J. Howard is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Howard began working for a racing stable in 1969 and went on to spend seven years as an assistant and stable foreman to future Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller before going out on his own in 1979.With Summer Squall, in 1990 Neil...	Robert G. Kluener	1:44.00
1981	Exterminate	4	Darrell Foster	Toni Needs	F. B. Frasier	1:44.40
1980	Silver Shears	3	Reyes Matias	Glen Wismer	Mary M. Zimmerman	1:43.20
1979	Lotta Honey	4	Julio Espinoza	Jasper Adams	Golden Chance Farm	1:42.40
1978	Likely Exchange	4	Mark Sellers	Thomas H. Stevens	Mrs. G. M. Humphrey	1:45.60
1977	Certain Roman	4	Michael Mc Dowell	Winston Neil	C. L. Collins, Jr.	1:44.80
1976	Brustigert	6	Al Herrara	Pat B. Devereaux	T. F. Devereaux	1:45.40
1975	Eager Wish	6	Clyde Bramble	R. Toole	R. Harden	1:44.40
1974	Bootlegger's Pet	4	G. Solomon	Charles C. Patrick	Patrick & Victor McGinnis	1:47.60
1973	Knight Counter	5	Don Brumfield Don Brumfield Donald Alan Brumfield is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.During his thirty-five year career, Brumfield won 4,573 races in 33,222 rides. He retired from racing in 1989. Brumfield was the "track all-time leading rider in terms of races won " at Churchill Downs, where he won 16 riding titles...	Vic A. Doleski	Robert Huffman	1:46.80
1972	no race
1971	Man of Parts	4	J. McIntosh	Sandra Nowacki	C. Nowacki	1:44.20
1971	Tesart	3	Mike Manganello Mike Manganello Michael "Mike" Manganello is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his start working for trainer Odie Clelland as a stable hand then began riding professionally in 1959 and earned his first win on March 3, 1960 at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans...	F. W. Newbrough	F. W. Newbrough	1:44.20
1970	Tort-Feazor	3	Oswaldo Torres	D. Evans	Court House Farm	1:44.40
1969	DeMito	4	Mike Manganello Mike Manganello Michael "Mike" Manganello is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his start working for trainer Odie Clelland as a stable hand then began riding professionally in 1959 and earned his first win on March 3, 1960 at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans...	Thomas H. Stevens	S. S. Scheidman	1:46.60
1968	T. V.'s Princess	4	Mike Manganello Mike Manganello Michael "Mike" Manganello is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his start working for trainer Odie Clelland as a stable hand then began riding professionally in 1959 and earned his first win on March 3, 1960 at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans...	Herman K. Goodpaster	Mrs. J. A. Goodwin	1:45.40
1967	Likely Swap	5	Mike Manganello Mike Manganello Michael "Mike" Manganello is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his start working for trainer Odie Clelland as a stable hand then began riding professionally in 1959 and earned his first win on March 3, 1960 at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans...	Thomas H. Stevens	G. M. Humphrey	1:51.00
1966	Brochazo	5	Mike Manganello Mike Manganello Michael "Mike" Manganello is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his start working for trainer Odie Clelland as a stable hand then began riding professionally in 1959 and earned his first win on March 3, 1960 at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans...	Anthony Basile Anthony Basile Anthony Saul Basile is a professional football Forward who last played for Once Municipal-External links:* *...	Bwamazon Farm	1:52.20
1965	Busking	nf	J. Lynch	D. Noviello	Noviello-Carr	1:51.60
1964	Sought After	3	J. Warner	W. U. Ridenour	Campbell-Ridenour	1:58.00
1933	Pomposity	3	John Bejshak	Bud Stotler Joseph H. Stotler Joseph Horace "Bud" Stotler was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Champion trainer who conditioned horses that won four Championships....	William R. Coe	3:02.00
1932	Gallant Sir Gallant Sir Gallant Sir was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred by renowned horseman Arthur B. Hancock at his Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He was sired by the outstanding American Champion sire, Sir Gallahad III. His dam, Sun Spot, was a daughter of Omar Khayyam, the 1917 Kentucky Derby winner and...	3	George Woolf George Woolf George Monroe Woolf , nicknamed "The Ice Man", was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey and the namesake of the annual jockey's award given by the United States Jockeys' Guild....	Woody Fitzgerald	Northway Stables	3:12.40
1931	St. Brideaux	3	Charles Kurtsinger Charles Kurtsinger Charles E. Kurtsinger was an American Hall of Fame jockey who won the Triple Crown in 1937.Known as "Charley" but in racing received the nickname "The Flying Dutchman", Kurtsinger was born in Shepherdsville, Kentucky and learned race riding from his jockey father and from veteran rider Mack Garner...	Marshall C. Lilly	Greentree Stable Greentree Stable Greentree Stable, in Red Bank, New Jersey, was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs, New York with his brother Harry Payne...	3:01.40
1930	Spinach	3	George Ellis	Clyde Phillips	William Ziegler, Jr.	2:59.60
1929	The Nut	3	Joseph Smith	Joe Notter Joe Notter Joseph A. Notter was an American Hall of Fame jockey and winner of two of the American Classic Races.A native of Brooklyn, New York, Joe Notter rode prominently in the first decades of the 20th century...	Warm Stable	3:26.00
1928	Sun Beau Sun Beau Sun Beau was an American Thoroughbred Champion Hall of Fame racehorse. Sired by Sun Briar, his damsire was Fair Play who sired Man o' War. Sun Beau accomplished a great deal in five years of racing despite having eight different trainers....	3	John Craigmyle	Andrew G. Blakely	Willis Sharpe Kilmer Willis Sharpe Kilmer Willis Sharpe Kilmer , son of Jonas M. Kilmer and Julia E. Sharpe, was a marketing pioneer, newspaperman, and horse breeder. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Cornell University in 1890. Kilmer was perhaps best known for advertising and promoting his uncle's Swamp Root patent medicine...	3:00.60
1927	Rolled Stocking	3	Willie Crump	Charles C. Van Meter	James W. Parrish	2:55.60
1926	Display Display (horse) Display was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was owned and bred by Walter J. Salmon, Sr. at his Mereworth Farm near Lexington, Kentucky. Display was sired by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Fair Play, a descendant of West Australian, the first winner of the English Triple Crown. He was out...	3	John Malben	Thomas J. Healey T. J. Healey Thomas J. Healey was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer.Regularly referred to as "T. J." by both his associates and the media, Healey was born near the site of Fordham University in Fordham, New York. Growing up he worked on his father's dairy farm but rather than cows, his...	Walter J. Salmon	2:58.80
1925	King Nadi	3	Earle Sande	John J. Troxler	John J. Troxler	3:06.40
1924	Chilhowee	3	Mack Garner	John C. Gallaher	John & Allen Gallaher	2:54.60
1923	In Memoriam	3	Mack Garner	Robert J. Gilmore	C. Wiedermann	3:00.80
1922	Rockminister	3	Mack Garner	Kay Spence	Monfort Jones	2:55.60
1921	Sporting Blood	3	Frank Keogh	Willie Booth	H. C. "Bud" Fisher Bud Fisher Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States....	3:05.60
1920	Cleopatra Cleopatra (horse) Cleopatra was an American Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Her sire was the one of Great Britian]]'s top stallions Corcyra, a son of three-time the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland Polymelus. Her dam was Gallice, a daughter of Gallinule...	3	Charles Fairbrother	William H. Karrick	William R. Coe	2:56.80
1919	Mad Hatter Mad Hatter (horse) Mad Hatter was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was named U.S. Champion Older Male Horse in 1921.-Background:...	3	Laverne Fator Laverne Fator Laverne Fator was an American Hall of Fame jockey.Born in Hailey, Idaho, Laverne Fator and his brothers Mark and Elmer all became jockeys. The most successful of the three, Laverne Fator's riding career began at small bush tracks in the Western United States. His first major win came in 1918 at...	David J. Leary	Sam Hildreth Sam Hildreth Samuel Clay Hildreth was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer and owner.Born in Independence, Missouri, Sam Hildreth began his training career in 1887, competing at racetracks in the Midwestern United States with such horses as the good racemare Hurley Burley, the dam of...	3:06.00

External links

• The 2009 Turfway Park Fall Championship Stakes at the NTRA