Live racing at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Tx. will resume Sunday, July 19 with the first race at 3:05 p.m. The track has COVID-19 guidelines available on its website, including a mask requirement.
Lone Star began its COVID-19-delayed meet on May 22, but it was paused on July 5 when a racing operations employee tested positive for the virus.
Alongside Friday's resumption announcement, Lone Star has announced an 18 percent purse increase, effective Sunday, July 19. The track will also add two additional race days: Aug. 5 and Aug. 12. The races for those days will be previously cancelled races and brought-back book races.
Both divisions of the $100,000-estimated Texas Thoroughbred (Sales) Futurity have been rescheduled for Aug. 11. With the necessary changes to the race schedule, the time between running the first and second legs of the Texas Stallion Stakes Series is not feasible, so both divisions of the second leg have been cancelled. The Texas Thoroughbred Association hopes to run them in January at Sam Houston Race Park.
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