It was the first Blue Grass Stakes contested on a synthetic track, which made the rain that pounded the area all weekend a nonfactor.

At Keeneland Race Course on April 11, the colt won the most important race of his career to date, the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes.

That race was won by eventual Blue Grass Stakes runner-up and Kentucky Derby starter Twinspired.

He has won three of his five races and was narrowly defeated in the prestigious Blue Grass Stakes earlier this month.

On April 11, 2010 the colt won the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes and later ran in the Kentucky Derby.

One allowance, then one prep, then the Blue Grass Stakes in Kentucky in April.

Sent to Kentucky, at Keeneland Race Course he won the final Derby stepping stone, the important Blue Grass Stakes, then a Grade 2 event.

He listed the mile-and-an-eighth Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 15 as a possibility.

The spring meet contains several preps for the Kentucky Derby (held the first Saturday in May), the most notable of which is the Blue Grass Stakes.

Following the 1976 death of her husband, Jane Lunger continued racing and breeding and enjoyed success with horses such as 1982 Blue Grass Stakes winner, Linkage.