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Commonwealth Stakes, the Glossary

The Commonwealth Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for horses that are four years old or older, over a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt held annually in early April at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the spring meeting.^[1]

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1987 establishments in Kentucky
Horse races established in 1987
Keeneland horse races

Afternoon Deelites

Afternoon Deelites (February 28, 1992 – February 14, 2023) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Alan Garcia (jockey)

Alan Garcia (born October 2, 1985) is a Peruvian thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Albert Stall Jr.

Albert M. Stall, Jr. (born October 10, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer best known for winning the 2010 Breeders' Cup Classic in which his horse Blame defeated the great filly, Zenyatta.

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Alydeed

Alydeed (foaled 1989) is a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Black Tie Affair

Black Tie Affair (April 1, 1986 – July 1, 2010) was a thoroughbred racehorse.

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Breeders' Cup

The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I Thoroughbred horse races, operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982.

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Burt Bacharach

Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music.

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Carl Nafzger

Carl A. Nafzger (born August 29, 1941) is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Corey Nakatani

Corey S. Nakatani (born October 21, 1970, in Covina, California, United States) is a retired US Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Courier Journal

The Courier Journal, also known as the Louisville Courier Journal (and informally The C-J or The Courier), and called The Courier-Journal between November 8, 1868, and October 29, 2017, is a daily newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky and owned by Gannett, which bills it as "Part of the ''USA Today'' Network".

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COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

On December 31, 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

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Craig Perret

Craig Perret (born February 2, 1951, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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D. Wayne Lukas

Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935, in Antigo, Wisconsin) is an American horse trainer and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.

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Dallas Stewart

Dallas Stewart (born September 15, 1959, in McComb, Mississippi) trains a string of thoroughbred horses in Kentucky from bases at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, Keeneland Race Course, Fair Grounds Race Course, Arlington Park and Saratoga Race Course.

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David P. Reynolds

David Parham Reynolds (June 16, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was chairman emeritus of Reynolds Metals Co. and an owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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Distorted Humor

Distorted Humor (foaled March 19, 1993 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and a successful sire.

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Dogwood Stable

Dogwood Stable was an American Thoroughbred racehorse partnership.

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Donald Brumfield

Donald Alan "Don" Brumfield (born May 24, 1938) is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.

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Doug O'Neill

Douglas F. O'Neill (born May 24, 1968) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Eddie Delahoussaye

Edward J. Delahoussaye (born September 21, 1951) is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.

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Edgar Prado

Edgar S. Prado (born June 12, 1967 in Lima, Peru) is a retired Hall of Fame jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.

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Eibar Coa

Eibar Coa Monteverde (born February 15, 1971, in Venezuela) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Ernie T. Poulos

Ernest T. Poulos (February 18, 1926 – March 30, 1997) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Flint S. Schulhofer

Flint S. "Scotty" Schulhofer (May 30, 1926 – December 14, 2006) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Frank A. Alexander

Frank A. Alexander (October 18, 1937 – June 26, 2020) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer who race conditioned Cherokee Run to a win in the 1994 Breeders' Cup World Championships and earned American Champion Sprint Horse honors.

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Furlong

A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and United States customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to any of 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, 10 chains or approximately 201 metres.

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Gary Stevens (jockey)

Gary Lynn Stevens (born March 6, 1963) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, actor, and sports analyst.

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Godolphin (racing)

Godolphin (Arabic: جودولفين) is the Maktoum family's private Thoroughbred horseracing stable and was named in honour of the Godolphin Arabian, who came from the desert to become one of the three founding stallions of the modern Thoroughbred.

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Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA).

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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H. Graham Motion

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Horse trainer

A horse trainer is a person who tends to horses and teaches them different disciplines.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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J. Paul Reddam

John Paul Reddam (born July 28, 1955) is a Canadian businessman, Thoroughbred racehorse owner and a former professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles.

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Jack Van Berg

John Charles "Jack" Van Berg (June 7, 1936 in Columbus, Nebraska – December 27, 2017) was an American Hall of Fame horse trainer.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jerry Bailey

Jerry D. Bailey (born August 29, 1957 in Dallas, Texas) is an NBC Sports thoroughbred racing analyst and a retired American Hall of Fame jockey.

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Jockey

A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession.

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Joel Rosario

Joel Rosario (born January 14, 1985) is a Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing, originally from the Dominican Republic.

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John R. Velazquez

John R. Velazquez (born November 24, 1971) is a Puerto Rican jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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John W. Sadler

John W. Sadler (born July 30, 1956) is an American horse trainer in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.

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José Ortiz (jockey)

José L. Ortiz (born October 2, 1993) is a Puerto Rican jockey who has been a rider on the New York Thoroughbred horse racing circuit since 2012.

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Josie Carroll

Josie Carroll (born December 8, 1957) is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer, who in 2006 became the first woman trainer to win the Queen's Plate, the oldest thoroughbred horse race in Canada and Canada's most prestigious race.

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Keeneland

Keeneland Association, Inc. is an equine business based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey

Kenneth L. "Ken" Ramsey (born 1935) and Sarah Kathern "Kitten" Ramsey (February 5, 1939 – May 29, 2022) are horse breeders and owners of Thoroughbred race horses.

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Kenneth McPeek

Kenneth G. McPeek (born August 2, 1962, in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Kent Desormeaux

Kent Jason Desormeaux (born February 27, 1970) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year with 598 wins in 1989.

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Kinghaven Farms

Kinghaven Farms is a horse racing stable that was founded in 1967 by Donald G. "Bud" Willmot.

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Lexington Herald-Leader

The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with, and the county seat of, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.

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List of American and Canadian Graded races

The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and the Jockey Club of Canada.

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Luis Contreras (jockey)

Luis Contreras (born March 14, 1986) is a Mexican jockey since 2006.

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Mario Gutierrez (jockey)

Mario Gutierrez (born 1987) is a Mexican Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who won the 2012 Santa Anita Derby, Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes aboard I'll Have Another, a colt owned by Windsor, Ontario, native J. Paul Reddam and his wife, Zillah.

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Mark E. Casse

Mark E. Casse (born February 14, 1961) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer whose most notable horses include 2015 American champion turf mare Tepin and Canadian Horses of the Year Sealy Hill (2007), Uncaptured (2012), Lexie Lou (2014), Catch A Glimpse (2015) and Wonder Gadot.

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Mark Frostad

Mark R. Frostad (born January 19, 1949) is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Mark Guidry

Mark Guidry (born August 6, 1959, in Lafayette, Louisiana) is a former American jockey.

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Martin Garcia (jockey)

Martin Garcia (born October 23, 1984, in Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing based in Southern California.

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Michael J. Maker

Michael J. Maker (born February 7, 1969) is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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Michael J. Trombetta

Michael J. Trombetta (born October 26, 1966, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer who began his training career in 1989 and who was the Maryland Trainer of the Year in 2005.

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Michael Tabor

Michael Barry Tabor (born 28 October 1941) is a racehorse owner.

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Miguel Mena

Jose Miguel Mena Rodriguez (November 6, 1986 – October 31, 2021) was a Peruvian-born American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who had been competing in the United States from 2003 until his death.

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Mike E. Smith

Michael Earl Smith (born August 10, 1965) is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003 and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 27 victories.

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National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American Thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers.

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Nick Zito

Nicholas Philip Zito (born February 6, 1948, in New York City, New York) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Orientate

Orientate (foaled March 29, 1999 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2002 Breeder's Cup Sprint and was voted the U.S. Champion Sprint Horse of 2002. A descendant of the great Nearco through his son Royal Charger, Orientate was bred by Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd. and raced by Bob & Beverly Lewis.

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Pat Day

Patrick Alan "Pat" Day (born October 13, 1953, in Brush, Colorado) is a retired American jockey.

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Pleasant Tap

Pleasant Tap (May 8, 1987 – October 8, 2010) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

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Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

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Randy Romero

Randy Paul Romero (December 22, 1957 – August 29, 2019) was a Hall of Fame jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Richard E. Mandella

Richard Eugene Mandella (born November 5, 1950, in Altadena, California), is a Thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame.

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Richard Migliore

Richard Migliore (born March 14, 1964, in Babylon, New York) is a retired American jockey.

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Robert B. Lewis

Robert B. "Bob" Lewis (May 12, 1924 – February 17, 2006) was an American businessman who owned a number of champion Thoroughbred racehorses during the 1990s and 2000s.

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Roger Attfield

Roger L. Attfield (born 28 November 1939 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner and an inductee of both the Canadian and United States horseracing Halls of Fame. In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970.

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Shane Sellers

Shane Jude Sellers (born September 24, 1966 in Erath, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Stronach Stables

Stronach Stables is the North American racing arm of Thoroughbred horse racing owner and breeder, Frank Stronach, who also owns the horse breeding operation Adena Springs.

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Thomas Mellon Evans

Thomas Mellon Evans (September 8, 1910 – July 17, 1997) was an American financier who was one of the country's early corporate raiders, as well as a philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who with Pleasant Colony won the 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed for horse racing.

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Thoroughbred racing

Thoroughbred racing is a sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses.

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Todd Pletcher

Todd Pletcher (born June 26, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is an American thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Tyler Gaffalione

Tyler Gaffalione (born September 12, 1994, in Davie, Florida) is an American jockey who, since being voted the Eclipse Award for the 2015 U.S. Champion Apprentice Jockey, has become one of racing's rising stars having won more than 200 races every year in his first three full seasons. He won the 2019 Preakness Stakes aboard War of Will.

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W. Elliott Walden

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Wertheimer et Frère

Wertheimer et Frère is a Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding business partnership between brothers Alain and Gérard Wertheimer of France.

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William T. Young

William T. Young (February 15, 1918 – January 12, 2004) was an American businessman and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses. William T. Young attended the University of Kentucky where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Young graduated with high distinction in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering.

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WinStar Farm

WinStar Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm near Versailles, Kentucky, owned by Kenny Troutt.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Stakes

Also known as Commonwealth Breeder's Cup Stakes, Commonwealth Breeders' Cup Stakes.

, Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, List of American and Canadian Graded races, Luis Contreras (jockey), Mario Gutierrez (jockey), Mark E. Casse, Mark Frostad, Mark Guidry, Martin Garcia (jockey), Michael J. Maker, Michael J. Trombetta, Michael Tabor, Miguel Mena, Mike E. Smith, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Nick Zito, Orientate, Pat Day, Pleasant Tap, Pound (mass), Randy Romero, Richard E. Mandella, Richard Migliore, Robert B. Lewis, Roger Attfield, Shane Sellers, Stronach Stables, Thomas Mellon Evans, Thoroughbred, Thoroughbred racing, Todd Pletcher, Tyler Gaffalione, W. Elliott Walden, Wertheimer et Frère, William T. Young, WinStar Farm.

Commonwealth Stakes, the Glossary

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See also

1987 establishments in Kentucky

Horse races established in 1987

Keeneland horse races

References