The Music City Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-tear-old fillies, over a distance of 6+1⁄2 furlongs on the turf held annually in September at Kentucky Downs racetrack in Franklin, Kentucky during their short turf meeting.
The event currently carries a purse of $2,000,000 which includes $1,000,000 from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund.
The race was inaugurated in 2020[1] with an attractive purse offered of $400,000.
[2] The event was won by the lightly raced West-Coast filly Lighthouse who started at the odds of 11/1 and won by 1+1⁄2 lengths in a time of 1:14.99.
[4] With the influx of gaming revenue at Kentucky Downs the initial purse for the event has risen dramatically to nearly $500,000 offered by 2022.