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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 Remington Park 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 late September at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The event currently carries a purse of $200,000.
The Oklahoma Derby is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three years olds, over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt held annually late September at Remington Park located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The event currently carries an offered purse of $400,000.
Laocoön and His Sons sculpture shows them being attacked by sea serpents. As related in the Aeneid, after a nine-year war on the beaches of Troy between the Danaans (Greeks from the mainland) and the Trojans, the Greek seer Calchas induces the leaders of the Greek army to win the war by means of subterfuge: build a huge wooden horse and sail away from Troy as if in defeat—leaving the horse ...
In the Aeneid (book II, 57 on), Aeneas recounts how Sinon was found outside Troy after the rest of the Greek army had sailed away, and brought to Priam by shepherds. He pretended to have deserted the Greeks and told the Trojans that the giant wooden horse the Greeks had left behind was intended as a gift to the gods to ensure their safe voyage home.
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The description given is incorrect: in the Aeneid, Laocoon threw the spear at the horse BEFORE Sinon began speaking. He was actually in the act of sacrificing a bull when the serpents came and dragged his sons into the water. I'm not an editor and don't know how to make any actual changes. From Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid.
The track features live horse races Thursday through Sunday from early June to late July at its facility at Expo Square Pavilion in the Tulsa State Fairgrounds. While the Expo Square is known for the annual Chili Bowl Midget Nationals & Tulsa Shootout races in the Expo Center, the Fair Meadows Race Track has hosted some motorsports events as well.