Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, will offer a 28-strong stakes schedule worth a record $5.477 million during the 2026 Holiday Meet and 2027 Winter/Spring Meet, with the $777,000 GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks the focal point of the season on Mar. 20, 2027.The holiday meet begins Wednesday, Dec. 2 and runs through Dec. 30, racing Wednesdays through Sundays. The Winter/Spring Meet kicks off Friday, Jan. 1 and runs through Mar. 27, with racing four days a week from Wednesday through Saturday.The Holiday Meet includes eight added-money events, highlighted by the third annual Synthetic Championships on Saturday, Dec. 12, with four stakes each worth $250,000–the Holiday Cheer Stakes and Holiday Inaugural Stakes over six furlongs, and the one-mile My Charmer Stakes and Prairie Bayou Stakes.Three Kentucky Derby and two Kentucky Oaks preps feature after the turn of the calendar. The Winter/Spring meet's 20 stakes races worth $3.977 million include a new addition to the Road to the Kentucky Derby–the one-mile $125,000 Leonnatus Stakes on Jan. 16, awarding Kentucky Derby points on a 10-5-3-2-1 scale.The Leonnatus is one of three Derby qualifiers at Turfway, with the Feb. 20 John Battaglia Memorial Stakes the final local lead-up to the Jeff Ruby Steaks, worth 100 points and a guaranteed spot in the Derby to the winner. One night earlier, fillies contest the Cincinnati Trophy. Both the Battaglia and Cincinnati Trophy award points on a 20-10-6-4-2 scale.The Jeff Ruby is one of a half-dozen stakes on Mar. 20. The co-features are the GIII TwinSpires Kentucky Cup Classic and the $300,000 Bourbonette Oaks, which offers points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks on a 50-25-15-10 scale.Click here for the Holiday Meet condition book.The post Jeff Ruby Steaks Highlights Record Turfway Winter/Spring Stakes Schedule appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.