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Prairie Meadows conducted its first day of racing on March 1, 1989. However, the track lost money during its first few years of operation and filed for bankruptcy in November 1991. Live racing was suspended for the 1992 season before revenues from off-track betting allowed racing to resume the following year. [1] On May 17, 1994, Polk County ...
The race was inaugurated in 1989 [1] at a distance of 1 mile in was run in late April. [1] However, the event was idle for five years from 1990 to 1994. [2] When the track administration resumed the event it was known as the Heartland Oaks and it was extended to the current distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles and scheduled in July. [1]
The Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap is an American Grade III thoroughbred horse race held annually at the end of June at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa. The race is open to horses age three years and older and currently offers a purse of $300,000. Raced at a distance of 1 1 ⁄ 8 miles on dirt, from 1966 through 1973 it was run at 1 1 ...
In 2022, live greyhound racing ended at the state's only remaining dog track, Iowa Greyhound Park, part of Q Casino in Dubuque, so Prairie Meadows now is the state’s only live pari-mutuel racing ...
Prior to the playoffs, the Cup Series will have 26 regular season races as well as the NASCAR All-Star Race on May 18. The schedule features ovals of various sizes, road courses, an oval/road ...
The county took over the racetrack in 1993, when the supervisors issued bonds to pay off Prairie Meadows' debts after the nonprofit Racing Association of Central Iowa filed for bankruptcy two ...
The Iowa Derby is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles (8.5 furlongs) on the dirt annually at Prairie Meadows Racetrack in Altoona, Iowa. The purse of the event is US$250,000. [1]
An early success story was the mid-1990s turnaround of the Prairie Meadows racetrack, in Polk County, Iowa. Prairie Meadows, which opened in 1989 but went bankrupt by 1991, was bought by the county government in 1993. [6] As reported in a January 2003 study for the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission: