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QUINONEZ SWEEPS DIVISIONS IN TEXAS STALLION STAKES – WINS FIVE RACES

May 12, 2012
QUINONEZ SWEEPS DIVISIONS IN TEXAS STALLION STAKES – WINS FIVE RACES

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX (Lone Star Park) – Jockey Luis Quinonez guided both Boca Bay and Im a Bear to victories in their respective $75,000 divisions of the Texas Stallion Stakes for three-year-olds Saturday at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie. Boca Bay, owned by W. ashley tisdale head strong S. Farish and...
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Texas Racing’s Premier Meet Set

April 12, 2012
Texas Racing’s Premier Meet Set

By David Hooper, CEO, Texas Thoroughbred Association AUSTIN, (TTA) – A competitive field of seven older Texas-bred sprinters are primed to get the 2012 Lone Star Park Thoroughbred meet off to a fast start at 6:35pm on Thursday night as the $50,000 Premiere Stakes kicks off the 53-day season in its traditional spot as the...
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New Game in Town at North Texas Track

April 6, 2012

By David Hooper, Executive Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association AUSTIN, (TTA) – Lone Star Park opens Thursday, April 12, for its first of 53 dates running through July 8, and the first full Thoroughbred meet under the management of Global Gaming Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation. Continuing a...
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Texas Track Operators Encouraged About 2012 Racing Prospects

January 28, 2012
Texas Track Operators Encouraged About 2012 Racing Prospects

By David Hooper, Executive Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association AUSTIN, (TTA) – The Texas Thoroughbred Association Board of Directors met at Sam Houston Race Park last Saturday morning and listened as operators of the state’s three Class 1 tracks waxed enthusiastically about prospects for their 2012 race meets and expressed optimism that track owners and...
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Major Change for Gamblers at Houston Track

January 7, 2012
Major Change for Gamblers at Houston Track

SAM HOUSTON INTRODUCING 2 HOUSTON HI-FIVES AND 1 PICK 5 TO 2012 BET MENU By David Hooper, Executive Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association Photo by Steven Long HOUSTON, (TTA) – Sam Houston Race Park players will have two new wagers to challenge them during the 2012 Thoroughbred season that starts with the 2-day Texas Champions stakes programs...
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SIXES STREAK GOES FOR FUTURITY DOUBLE

November 11, 2011
SIXES STREAK GOES FOR FUTURITY DOUBLE

AMARILLO, (AQHA) – Jerry Windham’s homebred Sixes Streak races to become the second horse to sweep the two Grade 1 futurities at Lone Star Park – the Dash For Cash Futurity and the Texas Classic Futurity – when he starts in the $1,252,909 Texas Classic Futurity (G1) on Saturday night at the North Texas...
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NINE TEXAS-BREDS DEFEND HOME RETAMA TURF IN $75K LA SENORITA, $75K EL JOVEN

October 14, 2011
NINE TEXAS-BREDS DEFEND HOME RETAMA TURF IN $75K LA SENORITA, $75K EL JOVEN

By David Hooper, Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association) AUSTIN, (TTA) – Retama Park’s twin 2-year-old featured stakes, the $75,000 M2Technology La Senorita for fillies and the $75,000 El Joven for colts and geldings, headline the October 15 Saturday night racing card with nine Texas-breds, six state-bred fillies and three state-bred colts and geldings, set to try...
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Rick Perry Names Houston CFA to Racing Commission Board

October 7, 2011
Rick Perry Names Houston CFA to Racing Commission Board

By David Hooper, CE offer flagyl er O, Texas Thoroughbred Association Photo by Lucy Reyna, Horseback Magazine AUSTIN, (TRC) – GOVERNOR PERRY APPOINTS HOUSTON CFA TO TRC TO FILL PABLOS’ VACANCY Governor Rick Perry has appointed John T. 2007 08 09 diflucan for oral thrush Steen III, a Chartered Financial Analyst and director of commercial development...
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20 2-YEAR-OLDS IN 2nd LEGS OF TEXAS STALLION STAKES SERIES AT RETAMA PARK

September 24, 2011
20 2-YEAR-OLDS IN 2nd LEGS OF TEXAS STALLION STAKES SERIES AT RETAMA PARK

AUSTIN, (TTA) – Nine colts and geldings and 11 fillies were entered in the two $100,000 divisions of the second legs of this year’s newest Texas Stallion Stakes Series to be run over 6 furlongs as the twin features of the 10-race card on Saturday night, September 24, at Retama Park. Clarence Scharbauer’s homebred Sword...
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LONE STAR PARK TO RACE 79 DAYS IN 2012

September 23, 2011
LONE STAR PARK TO RACE 79 DAYS IN 2012

Thoroughbreds 53 Days Starting April 12; Quarter Horses 26 Days Beginning Sept. offer flagyl er 14 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (September 22, 2011) – Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie was granted 79 live racing dates for 2012 at Tuesday’s Texas Racing Commission meeting in Austin, Texas, including a 53-date Spring Thoroughbred Season that will...
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