The Locust Grove Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, age three and older, over a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles held annually in September during the early fall meeting at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
The event is named after the site known as Locust Grove where a 1790 Georgian mansion is situated on 55 acres upriver from Louisville.
[1] The event was inaugurated on 31 May 1982 and was won by the Excitable Lady and was ridden by Champion jockey Darrel McHargue winning easily as the 3/10 odds-on favorite by 7 lengths in a time of 1:37.20 over the one mile distance.
[3] The following the event was held on the turf for the first time over a distance of 1+1⁄8 miles and was won by longshot Luckiest Girl at 20–1.
[3] In 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Churchill Downs did not schedule the event in their updated meeting.