The upcoming Remington Park Thoroughbred stakes schedule for the upcoming season that begins Aug. 16 will characteristic the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby on Sept. 29. The schedule of races carries greater than $3 million in stakes purse cash.
Oklahoma Derby Day, on the lone Sunday afternoon of the season, will host eight stakes occasions with complete purses greater than $1 million.
The meet additionally has a cornerstone race for 2-year-olds, the $300,000 Springboard Mile, which incorporates qualifying factors for the 2025 Kentucky Derby. The Springboard Mile night time will conclude the season on Friday, Dec. 13 with six stakes races together with one with a brand new moniker.
There lone title change on the schedule this season has the previous Trapeze Stakes renamed the Toby Keith Stakes, in honor of the late Oklahoma nation singer/songwriter and horseman. The $75,000 Toby Keith Stakes can be run on Dec. 13 for 2-year-old fillies, racing one mile. Keith was a horse proprietor and breeder who raced primarily beneath his steady title of Dream Walkin Farms. He had a banner profession in racing as his horses earned greater than $18 million on the racetrack, in line with Equibase statistics.
Dream Walkin Farms’ high horse all-time was Smack Smack, who earned $986,419 general, and gained the 2013 Intelligent Trevor Stakes and 2015 Governor’s Cup at Remington Park. He was additionally victorious within the Grade 3 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap in  Altoona, Iowa, and the Downs at Albuquerque Handicap in New Mexico, each in 2016.Â
Keith handed away in February on the age of 62 after a battle with abdomen most cancers. The 6-foot-4 Oklahoman made his breakthrough within the Nineteen Nineties along with his hit tune “Ought to Have Been a Cowboy.” He completed his profession with 20 No. 1-Billboard hit songs, together with “Beer for My Horses.”Â
Final 12 months’s Oklahoma Derby and Springboard Mile winners had been 44-1 longshot How Did He Do That and Otto the Conqueror, respectively, each from coach Steve Asmussen’s barn. Asmussen prolonged his historic run of coaching titles at Remington Park in 2023, now with 18 beneath his belt. The closest to him in second place is Donnie Von Hemel with 12.
The state-bred runners get their annual night time to shine with the renewal of the Oklahoma Classics on Friday, Oct. 18. The profitable night time of stakes racing, restricted to eligible Oklahoma-breds, will characteristic the $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup because the richest occasion.
The total stakes schedule might be discovered right here.
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