Open to three-year-old horses, it was last contested on turf over a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs).
[2] Your Host, owned by Hollywood film producer and studio executive William Goetz, won the 1950 inaugural Forerunner Purse.
Ridden by future Hall of Fame inductee Johnny Longden, Your Host broke the Keeneland track record for seven furlongs on dirt with a time of 1:22 2/5.
[1] Retired to stud, Your Host most notably sired the legendary Kelso, a Hall of Fame inductee who won American Horse of the Year honors five straight times from 1960 thru 1964.
[1] Tomy Lee then won Keeneland's Blue Grass Stakes and the 1959 Kentucky Derby.