The Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes was an English Thoroughbred horse race intended to become an annual race, but was run only once on 18 March 2009 at Kempton Park Racecourse in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey.

Open to three-year-old horses, it was raced clockwise at a distance of nine furlongs (1+1⁄8 miles, app.

The winner of the race was guaranteed one of the twenty starting spots in the 1+1⁄4 mile (10 furlongs) 2009 Kentucky Derby held on the first Saturday in May on the dirt track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

In addition, if the race winner exercised their right to run in the Kentucky Derby, they would receive a further $100,000 bonus payment plus would be given an automatic spot in the ensuing two legs of the U.S.

Triple Crown series, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.