The Transylvania Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds over a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles on the turf held annually in early April at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the spring meeting.
The Transylvania Stakes is named for the heavily forested region of western Virginia known as the Transylvania Colony, which became most of Kentucky in 1792.
The event was inaugurated on 8 April 1989 and was won by Shy Tom who was trained by the Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas and owned by William T. Young with strong stretch run in a time of 1:50 flat over the 1+1⁄16 miles distance.
[2] The event was shortened to a mile in 1996 and returned to the original distance in 2008.
† Ops Smile was first past the post but was disqualified for interference in the straight and was placed eighth.