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Delta Downs Racetrack, Casino and Hotel is an American thoroughbred and quarter horse racetrack in Calcasieu Parish, near Vinton, Louisiana in the southwest portion of the state. The facility is owned by Boyd Gaming .
The inaugural running of the Delta Jackpot took place in 2002. Run over a distance of one mile (1.6 km), it carried a purse of $500,000. For the following year, the race was lengthened to 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles and the purse was increased to $1 million [1] to make it the second-richest race for two-year-olds in North America behind only the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
The Grade III Street Sense Stakes, held on October 29 at Churchill Downs was added to the Early Prep Season; The Grade III Sham Stakes was included in the original list of events, but Santa Anita Park did not schedule the event in 2024; Santa Anita Park decreased the distance of the Robert B. Lewis Stakes from 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles to one mile
The Delta Princess Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Delta Downs in Vinton, Louisiana. A Grade III event for the first time in 2008, it is raced in November. It is open to two-year-old fillies. It is contested in November over a distance of 1 mile (8 Furlongs) on dirt. [1]
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His first stakes winner was Goldencents, who won the Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes. From a small crop that contained just 21 starters, Into Mischief finished third on the North American first-crop sire list. [21] [22] Two members of his first crop, Goldencents and Vyjack, were starters in the 2013 Kentucky Derby. Commenting on Into Mischief's ...
Wheeling Downs began its life as a thoroughbred horse race track in 1937 and continued in that capacity until a 1962 fire heavily damaged the property, keeping it closed for the next 5 years. [1] When it reopened, it switched to standardbred harness racing. During this period, attendance at the park languished. [2]
Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino is a racetrack in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, just east of Opelousas. It is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming . With a one-mile oval track, the facility provides close to 1,000 horse stalls for Thoroughbred flat racing and American Quarter Horse racing.