The Rushaway Stakes is an American ungraded Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky.
It was first run on March 22, 1986, the last year the racetrack was called Latonia.
The race is open to three-year-old horses and run over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles (8.5 furlongs).
Rushaway's feat of endurance is unmatched and still talked about more than eighty years later.
[5] His accomplishment in the Latonia Derby was made even more remarkable because Rushaway was carrying top weight in the eight-horse field by three pounds yet won by 6 lengths and did it in a new race record time for the mile-and-a-quarter distance.