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Churchill Downs has unveiled a record $10.7 million stakes schedule for 2006 that, along with 132nd restorations of the $2 million guaranteed Kentucky Derby (Grade I) and $500,000-added Kentucky Oaks (GI), includes three new stakes races, tweaked Kentucky Derby Day and “Stephen Foster Super Saturday” racing cards that now include six graded stakes events, and the addition of a second “Stars of Tomorrow” day in the Fall Meet devoted exclusively to races for 2-year-old Thoroughbreds.
There are 47 stakes events scheduled in the 2006 Spring and Fall Meets at the home of the Kentucky Derby - an increase of three from 2005 - and the $10.7 million in total stakes purses surpasses a record recognized last year when stakes purses rose to $10 million - the first time total Churchill Downs stakes purses had reached that level.
The April 29-July 16 Spring Meet at the Louisville track will include 32 stakes races, 24 of which are graded events, with total purses of $7.8 million. The Oct. 29-Nov. 25 Fall Meet, in which the track will host the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships for a record sixth time on Saturday, Nov. 4, has a stakes schedule made up of 15 races with total purses of $2.9 million. Eleven of the 15 Fall Meet stakes events are graded races. The fall highlight is the 132nd running of the $500,000-added Clark Handicap, which has been elevated to Grade I status by the American Graded Stakes Committee and will be the track's first Grade I race run in the Fall Meet.
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