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Prairie Meadows is owned by Polk County and operated by a local, non-profit, 13-member board of directors. The revenues generated by Prairie Meadows are given to various community projects in the Des Moines area, including construction of the Iowa Events Center complex in downtown Des Moines. Prairie Meadows' gross revenue for the 12-month ...
List of casinos in the U.S. state of Iowa; Casino City County State District Type Comments Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs: Council Bluffs: Pottawattamie: Iowa: Riverboat: Argosy Casino Sioux City
The Iowa Oaks is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for three years old fillies, over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles on the dirt held annually in early July at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa. The event currently carries a purse of $225,000.
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]
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Altoona is home of Adventureland, an amusement park, Prairie Meadows, a horse racing track and casino, and a Bass Pro Shops retail store, the first one in central Iowa. It is a suburb of Des Moines. 28 Clive: 18,601 Dallas, Polk: Clive is known for its Greenbelt Trail system running through the entire community. Clive serves as the axis of the ...
The Prairie Meadows grant, totaling $95,000, will allow Perry Lutheran Homes to increase the number of meal recipients, improve delivery logistics, and enhance community engagement through the ...
According to Theodore Roosevelt:. We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land [in the Midwest] and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.