# Jeff Ruby

The jeff ruby Steaks (a homophone of the word Stakes, for commercial reasons, previously known as the Spiral Stakes—) is an American thoroughbred horse race held in late March at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky in the Cincinnati area. The race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the main track, which is now a synthetic surface at Turfway. It was downgraded to a Grade III race in 2011 by the American Graded Stakes Committee (AGSC).First run on April 1, 1972 as the Latonia Spiral Stakes , bourbon whiskey maker Jim Beam acquired naming rights sponsorship in 1982 and the race renamed the Jim Beam Spiral Stakes and later just the Jim Beam Stakes.