Turfway cancels Saturday and Sunday racing for winter weather
Turfway Park has canceled racing Saturday and Sunday due to winter weather. These mark the fourth and fifth consecutive days that the track has canceled live racing.
Kevin Kerstein, who does publicity for Turfway, announced the cancellation Saturday morning in a post to X, attributing it to "severe winter weather across the region". Saturday's feature, the Likely Exchange Stakes, will be re-drawn and run on Jan. 24.
The track expects to resume racing on Wednesday with a 10-race card starting at 5:55 p.m EST according to a Saturday news release from Turfway. A $180,036 carryover into Saturday's late Pick 5 will be available Wednesday, in a sequence beginning in the day's sixth race.
Turfway also announced Saturday in the release that its cards, starting Wednesday, will be expanded to ten races in order to make up for races that have been canceled due to weather.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service predicted isolated snow showers through Saturday morning and a high near 31. Sunday is expected to be mostly sunny with a high near 35.
On Wednesday, Turfway's next scheduled race day, forecasters predicted mostly sunny weather with a high of 18 during the day, and partly cloudy skies with a low around nine degrees on Wednesday night.
The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for an area including Florence, Ky., where Turfway is located. The advisory notes a "low probability for widespread hazardous weather" Saturday and Saturday night, with "dangerously low wind chill values" possible Sunday through Friday. National Weather Service forecasters noted that wind chills between zero and -10 degrees are possible Tuesday and Thursday morning, with wind chills between -10 and -15 degrees on Wednesday morning.
Turfway is not the only track to cancel Saturday and Sunday racing. Santa Anita has also canceled weekend racing due to the effects of nearby fires.