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Lone Star Park is a horse racing track and entertainment destination located 1 ⁄ 2 mile north of Interstate 30 on Belt Line Road in Grand Prairie, Texas.Lone Star Park has two live racing seasons every year; the spring Thoroughbred season generally runs from early April through mid-July, and the Fall Meeting of Champions generally runs from early September through mid-November.
In 2001, Dixie Dot Com became the only horse to win in the same year the Texas Mile and the Lone Star Park Handicap, known as "The Texas Two Step." Among notable horses who ran in the Texas Mile but did not win were Skip Away , who finished third in 1997, and Real Quiet who finished second in 1999.
Retama Park is a class 1 pari-mutuel horse racetrack located in Selma, Texas, United States, that opened in 1995.Live quarter horse races meet July to September. Simulcast racing is shown year-round.
The Lone Star Derby is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. It is currently an Ungraded stakes race run over a distance of 8.5 furlongs on turf. Inaugurated in 1997 as an ungraded stakes race, it was elevated to Grade III status in 2002.
Sam Houston opened on April 24, 1994, and was the first Class 1 Horse Racing venue constructed in Texas. [1] It cost approximately $90 million to construct. The Park was considered the fastest growing race track in America based on handle growth and quality of racing program over the past year several years. [ 2 ]
Bandera Downs in Bandera, Texas. Bandera Downs was an American horse-racing track located in Bandera, Bandera County, Texas.. A thousand people were on hand for the first race at the new track known as Lost Valley Downs in July 1965 [1] running American Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred events until closing after the 1967 season.
Horses start out of the gate at Lone Star Park. Parimutuel wagering is allowed at horse and greyhound tracks, overseen by the Texas Racing Commission.. Class 1 horse tracks can be granted an unlimited number of racing days. [8]
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