The Agnes Keyser Fillies' Stakes is a

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in Great Britain open to

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aged three years. It is run at Goodwood over a distance of 1 mile 1

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and 197 yards (1,991 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The race was originally run at Newbury over 1 mile and 2 furlongs. Prior to 2018 its registered title was the Ballymacoll Stud Stakes and from 2003 to 2017 it was run as the Lord Weinstock Memorial Stakes in memory of

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(1924—2002), a British businessman who owned the

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. The stud closed in 2017 and the race's registered title was subsequently changed to the Abingdon Stakes. In 2018 and 2019 the race was run as the Johnnie Lewis Memorial Stakes to commemorate Major Johnnie Lewis, a bloodstock agent who died in 2017. In 2023 the

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transferred the race to Goodwood and it took its present title.

Winners since 1988

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Winners since 1988

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