Doubledogdare Winning the First Running of the Spinster Stakes at Keeneland in 1956

Doubledogdare Winning the First Running of the Spinster Stakes at Keeneland in 1956

Photography of horse sports

One of the goals for Keeneland’s founders was to establish races for fillies and mares in order to test the endurance and speed of breeding stock. The Spinster Stakes was proposed by Hal Price Headley and inaugurated at the 1956 Fall Meet as the first weight-for-age distaff (for females) stakes race. It was won by Doubledogdare, bred by Claiborne Farm.

Joel Clyne Meadors

October 19, 1956

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black and white acetate negative

Still image

black and white acetate negative

4"x5"