The 2020 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season is set to begin a 67-date run on Friday, Aug. 21. The 32-race stakes schedule will also start on opening night with the $75,000 Governor's Cup, for older runners at 1-1/8 miles, serving as the feature.
The total purse money for the stakes schedule is $2,880,000, a reduction of $820,000 from the 2019 stakes. The lower structure is due to two-months of inactivity from mid-March to late-May this spring when Remington Park halted simulcast racing and casino gaming for health and safety measures at the height of Covid-19.
Remington Park's lone graded events top the billing for Oklahoma Derby Day on Sunday, Sept. 27. The Grade 3, $200,000 Oklahoma Derby and the Grade 3, $100,000 Remington Park Oaks head the lineup of eight stakes races on one of just two Sunday afternoon programs this season. Won in 2019 by Owendale, the Oklahoma Derby shares richest race honors at Remington Park. The Springboard Mile, the track's top event for 2-year-olds, also carries a $200,000 purse.
The marquee night for state-breds falls on Friday, Oct. 16 with the annual Oklahoma Classics. The series of divisional stakes races, worth more than $1,000,000, for Oklahoma-breds has been contested every year since 1993. The $175,000 Classics Cup tops the night and for the first time since 2016 will be won by a horse not named Shotgun Kowboy. A record-holding four-time winner of the Cup, millionaire Shotgun Kowboy has been retired to the farm of his breeder-owner-trainer, C.R. Trout, in Edmond, Okla.
The Springboard Mile leads a loaded afternoon of stakes racing on the final day of the season, Sunday, Dec. 20. The Springboard carries valuable qualifying points for the 2021 Kentucky Derby and has drawn quality fields, sending runners into the two most recent “Runs for the Roses” in 2018 (Combatant) and 2019 (Long Range Toddy).
The Remington Park turf course will be ready for action from opening night into November. There are seven stakes races slated over the grass with the $60,000 Remington Green and the $60,000 Ricks Memorial as the top open stakes races, both on the undercard on Oklahoma Derby Day. A pair of events on Oklahoma Classics night share the honors for richest turf stakes this season with the OKC Turf Classic and the Classics Distaff Turf both checking in at $130,000.
A total of 16 stakes are slated for Oklahoma-bred runners, beginning with a trio of events for state-breds over turf on Friday, Sept. 25. The Red Earth Stakes, the Bob Barry Memorial and the Remington Park Turf Sprint, all worth $70,000, start the run for Oklahoma-breds. The Jim Thorpe Stakes and Useeit Stakes, also worth $70,000, wrap up the state-bred stakes on the Springboard Mile undercard, Dec. 20.
Following is the complete 2020 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season Stakes Schedule. Races for eligible Oklahoma-breds are denoted by (OK).
- Aug. 21: $75,000 Governor's Cup, 3 and older, 1-1/8 miles
- Sep. 11: $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Stakes, 3-year-old colts/geldings, 7 furlongs
- Sep. 11: $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 7 furlongs
- Sep. 25: $70,000 Remington Park Turf Sprint, 3 and older, 5 furlongs (OK)
- Sep. 25: $70,000 Red Earth Stakes, 3-year-olds and up, 7-1/2 furlongs (OK) (turf)
- Sep. 25: $70,000 Bob Barry Memorial, fillies/mares, 3 and older, 7-1/2 furlongs (OK) (turf)
- Sep. 27: $200,000 Grade 3, Oklahoma Derby, 3-year-olds, 1-1/8 miles
- Sep. 27: $100,000 Grade 3, Remington Park Oaks, 3-year-old fillies, 1-1/16 miles
- Sep. 27: $60,000 David Vance Sprint, 3 and older, 6 furlongs
- Sep. 27: $60,000 Remington Green Stakes, 3 and older, 1-1/8 miles (turf)
- Sep. 27: $60,000 Kip Deville Stakes, 2-year-olds, 6 furlongs
- Sep. 27: $60,000 Ricks Memorial Stakes, fillies/mares, 3 and older, 1-1/16 miles (turf)
- Sep. 27: $50,000 E.L. Gaylord Memorial Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 6-1/2 furlongs
- Sep. 27: $50,000 Flashy Lady Stakes, fillies/mares, 3 and older, 6 furlongs
- Oct. 16: $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup, 3 and older, 1-1/16 miles (OK)
- Oct. 16: $145,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff, fillies/mares, 1 mile-70 yards (OK)
- Oct. 16: $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Sprint, 3 and older, 6 furlongs (OK)
- Oct. 16: $130,000 OKC Turf Classic, 3 and older, 1-1/16 miles (turf) (OK)
- Oct. 16: $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf, fillies/mares, 3 and older, 1-1/16 miles (OK)
- Oct. 16: $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Sprint, fillies/mares, 3 and older, 6 furlongs (OK)
- Oct. 16: $100,000 Oklahoma Classics Juvenile, 2-year-old colts/geldings, 6 furlongs (OK)
- Oct. 16: $100,000 Oklahoma Classics Lassie, 2-year-old fillies, 6 furlongs (OK)
- Oct. 30: $60,000 Clever Trevor Stakes, 2-year-olds, 7 furlongs
- Nov. 13: $75,000 Don McNeill Stakes, 2-year-olds, 1 mile (OK)
- Nov. 13: $75,000 Slide Show Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 1 mile (OK)
- Nov. 13: $70,000 Silver Goblin Stakes, 3 and older, 6 furlongs (OK)
- Dec. 20: $200,000 Springboard Mile, 2-year-olds, 1 mile
- Dec. 20: $75,000 She's All In Stakes, fillies/mares, 3 and older, 1 mile-70 yards
- Dec. 20: $60,000 Trapeze Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 1 mile
- Dec. 20: $60,000 Jeffrey Hawk Memorial, 3 and older, 1 mile-70 yards
- Dec. 20: $70,000 Jim Thorpe Stakes, 3-year-olds, 1 mile (OK)
- Dec. 20: $70,000 Useeit Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile (OK)
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