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[1] [2] As of 2021, the purse was increased back to $400,000 before being reduced again to $300,000 in 2023. [3] Prior to 2009, the race was known as the Remington MEC Mile Stakes. [4] Formerly run on the last day of the racing calendar in December at Remington Park, it has since been moved to the Friday night going into the final weekend.
The event was not held in 1997 and 2002 and in 1996 and 2004 the event was moved off the turf track onto the main track due to inclement conditions. [1] From 1998 the event was reduced to one mile and in 2005 the event was split into two divisions. [3] With the introduction of the casino at Remington Park in 2006, stakes increased.
The track features an American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa season March through June.The Thoroughbred season begins August through December. [1] In addition, Remington Park annually hosts the richest race in Oklahoma, the $1,000,000 Heritage Place Futurity in May and the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby headlines the Thoroughbred season in the fall.
The inaugural running of the event was on 18 March 1989 as the Remington Park Derby held over the 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles distance and was won by the Oklahoma bred Clever Trevor in a time 1:43.00. [2] Clever Trevor would later win the Grade I Arlington Classic and Remington Park would have a Black Type Stakes named after him.
The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association [1] and the Jockey Club of Canada. A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then ...
Horse racing in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis by Horse Racing Ireland. In the Republic of Ireland: Ballinrobe Racecourse (mixed) Bellewstown Racecourse (mixed) Clonmel races (mixed) Cork races (mixed) The Curragh races, County Kildare (site of Irish Derby) (flat) Dundalk races (all-weather) (flat) Fairyhouse races (mixed) Galway ...
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The event was originally raced at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois as a supporting stakes race on the Arlington Million racing program. Churchill Downs , whose parent company owns the land of the defunct Arlington Park racetrack, originally planned to run the Secretariat Stakes in 2022, [ 1 ] but the race was not run due to issues ...