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For many years the event was usually held during the President's Day weekend but was moved to late January after Oaklawn Park introduced a new schedule of their expanded program for the 2021–22 racing season. [6] In 2024, the race was moved back one week from January 27 to February 3 due to weather. [9]
With increased revenue from the racino the administration of the track in 2019 added stakes events to their racing calendar and created this mile race for older horses. [2] This event attracted accomplished gallopers such as 2020 Grade I winner Tom's d'Etat and the American Graded Stakes Committee upgraded the status of the event to Grade III ...
The 1983 racing season set Oaklawn's all-time handle record: $168,740,923 wagered during the 56-day season. This was a daily average of $3,013,230, beating the track's goal of $3 million. Attendance for the season was 1,303,223, for a daily average of 23,272.
The Count Fleet Sprint Handicap is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid April. It takes place at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. During the race, horses age four and older compete over the sprint distance of six furlongs. Inaugurated in 1974, [1] the event currently offers a purse of US$500,000. [2]
IndyCar schedule 2023: Dates and locations and podium finishers for all 17 races. Yahoo Sports Staff. September 10, 2023 at 7:20 PM.
The Fantasy Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt run annually usually in early April at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The event currently offers a purse of $750,000.
The exposure from Smarty Jones subsequent run at the Triple Crown helped increase participation from the top three-year-olds in the country to the point where the American Graded Stakes Committee made the Arkansas Derby a Grade I race in 2010. [2] Past winners of the race have gone on to win legs of horse racing's Grand Slam.
It is the first in a series of races – including the Southwest Stakes, Rebel Stakes, and Arkansas Derby – held at Oaklawn that are commonly used as preps for the Kentucky Derby. [ 2 ] Note that a second Smarty Jones Stakes, a Grade 3 race for 3-year-olds run at a distance of 1 and 1/16 miles, was created in 2010 and is held at Parx in late ...