Category Archives: Executive Director Updates

News and Notes for August 21, 2020

ACCREDITED TEXAS-BREDS IN UPCOMING STAKES Stakes-placed Hulen (Tapiture – Clamorous Clarissa) is in a field of 7 colts and geldings going 6 furlongs in Saturday’s $50,000 Prairie Gold Juvenile Stakes […]

July 24, 2020

NEWS AND NOTES FOR JULY 24, 2020 MORE THAN 170 CATALOGED FOR TEXAS YEARLING, HORA SALE A catalog of 175 head is now online for the Texas Summer Yearling and […]

News and Notes for July 17, 2020

UPCOMING STAKES AND TRACK NEWS This weekend at Gillespie County Fair, there are 10 races carded for Saturday including an 870-yard mixed allowance, a 4-furlong-Thoroughbred maiden, a 5 ½ furlong […]

News and Notes for June 26, 2020

ATB HORSES AND OTHER TEXAS CONNECTIONS IN UPCOMING STAKES In Saturday’s $100,000 (G.3) Bashford Manor Stakes for 2-year-olds going 6 furlongs at Churchill Downs, trainer Steve Asmussen will send out […]

News and Notes for June 12, 2020

TEXAS CHAMPIONS DAY AT LONE STAR PARKOn Sunday, Lone Star Park will present Texas Champions Day with seven stakes worth $75,000 each.  These races were originally scheduled to be run […]

News and Notes for June 5, 2020

LONE STAR TO RUN 18 STAKES, MINUS STEVE SEXTON MILE Lone Star Park released a revised stakes schedule June 4 for its reduced 36-day season, which began later than usual May […]

News and Notes for May 22, 2020

LONG AWAITED RACING RETURNS TO TEXAS Lone Star Park’s Bar and Book reopened today at 10:30 a.m. with occupancy limited to 25% capacity and all appropriate physical distancing measures in […]