Lone Star Park has $2.8 million in stakes during 2024 meet
Lone Star Park will begin its 2024 Thoroughbred season April 18 and conclude July 14 with 41 race days featuring 21 stakes worth a total of $2.8 million.
The $75,000 Bluebonnet Stakes for Texas-bred fillies and mares will highlight the opening-night card April 18.
The richest day of the meet, Lone Star Million day, will take place on Memorial Day, May 27, with more than $1.2 million in purses. Six stakes have been scheduled, including the Grade 3, $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile for 3-year-olds and up and the 1 1/16-mile, $300,000 Texas Derby.
Two of the six stakes on Million day will be for fillies and mares, including the $200,000 Ouija Board Distaff at one mile on the turf and the six-furlong $100,000 Memorial Day Sprint.
The $100,000 Chamberlain Bridge Stakes at five furlongs on the turf and the $100,000 Speightstown Sprint at six furlongs will also be contested as part of the Memorial Day card.
Lone Star Park will host its summer turf festival June 29. The $250,000 Texas Turf Classic will anchor the card at 1 1/8 miles. Three other $125,000 turf stakes will be run as well, including the 1 1/16-mile Wasted Tears, the Grand Prairie Turf Sprint and, for fillies and mares, the five-furlongs Chicken Fried Stakes on the lawn.
Texas-breds will show their skills in restricted stakes on Lone Star showcase day in the $75,000 Danny Shifflet Scholarship Stakes, the $75,000 Wayne Hanks Memorial Stakes and the $75,000 Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame Stakes, all June 1. Also, both divisions of the $75,000 Texas Stallion Stakes are scheduled for that day.
The season’s stakes action wraps up with Stars of Texas day July 13. Two-year-olds get a chance at a stakes win as both divisions of the $150,000 Texas Thoroughbred Association Futurity will be run at the 5 1/2-furlong distance. The $75,000 Assault Stakes at one mile on turf, the six furlong $75,000 Valor Farm Stakes and the $75,000 Fiesta Mile, all restricted to Texas-breds, will be run as well.
Opening night April 18 falls on Thursday. After that there will be racing Friday, Saturday and Sunday most weeks. The exceptions are Saturday-Monday, May 26-28, for Memorial Day weekend and Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, July 3, 4, 6 and 7, around Independence Day.
| Lone Star 2024 stakes | Date | Gr. | Purse | Div. | Dist. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluebonnet | April 18 | TxB | $75,000 | f&m 3+ | 6 1/2 f |
| Steve Sexton Mile | May 27 | G3 | $400,000 | 3+ | 1 mile |
| Texas Derby | $300,000 | 3yo | 1 1/16 mi | ||
| Ouija Board Distaff | $200,000 | f&m 3+ | 1 mi (t) | ||
| Chamberlain Bridge | $100,000 | 3+ | 5 fur (t) | ||
| Memorial Day Sprint | $100,000 | f&m 3+ | 6 fur | ||
| Speightstown Sprint | $100,000 | 3+ | 6 fur | ||
| Danny Schifflett Schol. | June 1 | TxB | $75,000 | f&m 3+ | 7 1/2 f (t) |
| Wayne Hanks Memorial | TxB | $75,000 | 3+ | 6 1/2 fur | |
| Texas Stallion - Pan Zareta | TxB | $75,000 | 2yo f | 5 fur | |
| Tx. Stall. - Staunch Avenger | TxB | $75,000 | c&g 2yo | 5 fur | |
| Tx. Horse Racing Hall of Fm. | TxB | $75,000 | 3+ | 1 1/16 (t) | |
| Texas Turf Classic | June 29 | $250,000 | 3+ | 1 1/8 (t) | |
| Wasted Tears | $125,000 | f&m 3+ | 1 1/16 (t) | ||
| Grand Prairie Turf Sprint | $125,000 | 3+ | 5 fur (t) | ||
| Chicken Fried | $125,000 | f&m 3+ | 5 fur (t) | ||
| Assault | July 13 | TxB | $75,000 | 3+ | 1 mile (t) |
| Valor Farm | TxB | $75,000 | f&m 3+ | 6 fur | |
| TTA Futurity, filly division | $150,000 | 2yo f | 5 1/2 f | ||
| TTA Futurity, c&g division | $150,000 | c&g 2yo | 5 1/2 f | ||
| Fiesta Mile | TxB | $75,000 | f&m 3+ | 1 mile (t) | |
| TTA - Tx. Thoroughbred Assn. | |||||
| TxB - Texas bred | |||||
| (t) - turf |