Emerald Downs will run the Grade 3 Longacres Mile on Sept. 13 as the highlight of a 16-race stakes schedule this summer, the track announced in a press release on Saturday. Emerald Downs will run for 44 days, from June 22 through Oct. 4.
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Initially, at least, the races will be conducted without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic. Emerald had been scheduled to begin juts meet on April 18.
The status of a 2020 racing season at Arlington remained uncertain after a regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the Illinois Racing Board on Friday.
Arlington was supposed to open its race meet on May 1 but remains shuttered, with empty stables, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Canterbury Park will offer about $200,000 in daily purses during a 52-day race meet expected to commence June 10, the Minnesota track announced Friday.
A news release from the track said the stakes schedule had been altered, with some races eliminated and others taking purse cuts. Canterbury submitted a proposed schedule to the Minnesota Racing Commission, which is expected to approve the meet conditions at a June 8 meeting.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Gregg Sacco was pleasantly surprised that the New York Racing Association rescheduled the Grade 1 Carter Handicap for June 6, even if the purse had to be cut by $150,000. The race was originally scheduled for April 4 but was one of 19 cards scrapped at Aqueduct due to the coronavirus pandemic.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Chad Brown will be well armed when Belmont Park kicks off its spring-summer meet on June 3.
After having many races in which he was looking to run taken away when Keeneland canceled its spring meet and with Churchill Downs delaying many of its major stakes to September due to the coronavirus pandemic, Brown will have many of his stars make their seasonal debuts at Belmont.
Thistledown racetrack near Cleveland, Ohio, will submit a revised racing schedule to state regulators for a meet starting on June 4 and ending on Oct. 21, according to the state’s horsemen’s group.
The starting date is the same opening date for Belterra Park in Cincinnati, which on Tuesday received approval from the Ohio State Racing Commission to run a 75-day meet, spectator-free. Both Belterra and Thistledown will run on a four-day-a-week schedule, Monday through Thursday.
Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado achieved another milestone in his riding career when he surpassed Angel Cordero Jr. to take over sole possession of eighth place in the all-time jockey standings by guiding 2-year-old first-time starter Flying Aletha to an easy victory for trainer Wesley Ward in Thursday’s second race.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine Entertainment CEO Jim Lawson said in a Thursday industry update that the equine herpesvirus outbreak on the Woodbine backstretch appears to be contained to Barn 12. All horses in the neighboring Barn 10 tested negative.
