Rubicon Valley View Stakes (G3) Sponsored by Rubicon
32nd Running • Fall • 1 1/16 miles (turf) • 3-year-old fillies The Valley View Stakes is named for Kentucky’s oldest recorded commercial business, the Valley View Ferry. In operation since 1785, the ferry crosses the Kentucky River to connect Fayette and Madison counties. Rubicon, a Lexingtonbased software company known as “America’s technology company” that provides smart waste and recycling solutions to businesses and governments worldwide, began to sponsor the Valley View in 2021.
2021 Purse: $150,000 Stakes Record: 1:41.25, Stunning Sky, 2020 Largest Straight Payoff: $89.00, Daisy Devine, 2011 Smallest Straight Payoff: $2.80, Asi Siempre, 2005 Largest Field: 14, 2019 Smallest Field: 8, 1998 Largest Value to Winner: $93,000, Bel Air Beauty, 2007; Acoma, 2008
Keeneland/Coady
STAKES
Milestones – Valley View Stakes
Through 2016, Keeneland maintained separate course records for the Keeneland Course and the Haggin Course depending on the setting of a temporary rail. Beginning in 2017, Keeneland consolidated the course records into one set based solely on distance, not rail settings. (See page 218.)
Winning Owner G. Watts Humphrey Jr.
Navratilova’s win in the Rubicon Valley View (G3) was the eighth graded stakes victory for owner G. Watts Humphrey Jr. and earned for him a Keeneland Tray, part of Keeneland’s Milestone Trophy Program.
Winning Trainer George R. Arnold II
Winning Jockey Colby Hernandez
Valley View Stakes History Year
Winner/Owner
2021
Navratilova Colby Hernandez (118) Crazy Beautiful Adventuring 1:43.57 yl 1 G. Watts Humphrey Jr. George R. Arnold II Brian Hernandez Jr. (118) Florent Geroux (118) Stunning Sky Ricardo Santana Jr. (118) Princess Grace How Ironic 1:41.33 fm 1/2 Paradise Farms (Peter Proscia) and Michael J. Maker Shaun Bridgmohan (118) Rafael Bejarano (118) Parkland Thoroughbreds (Steve Weston) Lady Prancealot (IRE) Joe Bravo (120) Blowout (GB) The Mackem Bullet (IRE) 1:43.25 gd 3/4 Jules Iavarone, Michael Iavarone Richard Baltas John Velazquez (120) Tyler Gaffalione (120) and Jerry McClanahan Colonia (FR) Joe Bravo (118) Get Explicit Cool Beans 1:45.98 fm 1/2 Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables H. Graham Motion Shaun Bridgmohan (118) Florent Geroux (118) (Sol Kumin and Jason Monteleone), Maurice Lagasse, Haras d’Etreham (Nicolas De Chambre) and Bethlehem Stables (Michael Caruso) Lovely Bernadette Florent Geroux (120) Journey Home I’m Betty G 1:42.80 fm 1 1/2 James M. Miller James P. DiVito Jose Ortiz (118) Julien Leparoux (118) Quidura (GB) Junior Alvarado (118) Linda My Impression 1:45.86 sf 1 1/4 Gestut Faerhof H. Graham Motion Brian Hernandez Jr. (120) Jose Ortiz (120) Haggin Course Tiger Ride Edgar Prado (120) Include Betty Mrs McDougal 1:43.99 ft 1 Dixiana Farms H. Graham Motion Drayden Van Dyke (118) Julien Leparoux (120) Off Turf Sparkling Review Julien Leparoux (120) Spring Included Goldy Espony (FR) 1:44.34 gd 2 3/4 Edward A. Seltzer and Ben Colebrook Robby Albarado (118) Alan Garcia (122) Keeneland Course Beverly S. Anderson Overheard Eurico Da Silva (118) Nellie Cashman Summer of Fun 1:43.35 fm 1 Pin Oak Stable Malcolm Pierce Forest Boyce (122) Joseph Rocco Jr. (118) Keeneland Course
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2017 2016 2015 2014
2013
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2022 Keeneland Media Guide | Stakes
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