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The live racing season is highlighted by the Sunland Park Derby, run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles for three-year-olds on February 18, 2024. The purse is currently $400,000. The race, which was granted grade 3 status in 2010, is included in the Road to the Kentucky Derby, awarding 20 points to the winner, 10 to second, 6 to third, 4 to fourth, and 2 to fifth.
The Sunland Park Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico. Inaugurated in 2003, the race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt and is sponsored by WinStar Farm of Versailles, Kentucky. Held in March, the Sunland Derby currently ...
On Sunday, the 440-yard, $350,000 The Championship At Sunland Park will take place for quarter horses 4-years-old and older. The field is small with six horses, but the quality is solid with ...
Purse. $250,000. The Sunland Park Oaks (formerly the WinStar Oaks) is an American Thoroughbred horse race open to three-year-old fillies and mares racing one mile (formerly one and one sixteenth miles) on the dirt. The Oaks, an ungraded stakes event, is currently held in February at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino (founded in 1959) in New Mexico .
One of the latest major horse track opened in the United States was the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It first commenced Thoroughbred racing in 1977, but, since 1976, it is primarily a harness racing venue. The racetrack gave birth to what is now called the Monmouth Cup Stakes, now currently held at Monmouth Park, in 1977.
This is a listing of the top attended stakes races for thoroughbred racing in North America by year. The chart lists the paid attendance of the eight top average attended races including the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and its companion race the Kentucky Oaks on Friday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky; the Preakness Stakes on Saturday and its companion race the George E. Mitchell ...
American Champion Older Dirt Male Horse. American Champion Sprint Horse. American Champion Steeplechase Horse. American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse. American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse. American Dream Derby. American Horse of the Year.
Defunct horse racing venues in the United States (15 C, 61 P) Harness racing venues in the United States (32 P) Categories: Horse racing venues by country. Horse racing in the United States. Sports venues in the United States by sport. Commons category link is on Wikidata.