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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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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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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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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By David Hooper, CEO, 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. Steen III, a Chartered Financial Analyst and director of commercial development for Lone Star NGL LLC, to the Texas Racing Commission to fill...
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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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Thoroughbreds 53 Days Starting April 12; Quarter Horses 26 Days Beginning Sept. 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 be run from April...
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RETAMA AMENDS 2012 DATES REQUEST TO RUN 26 TB DATES IN 13 WEEKS TIL 12/29 – By David Hooper, Texas Thoroughbred Association
AUSTIN, (TTA) – Bryan Brown, Retama Park’s COO, has submitted an amended dates request for 2012 that would add three Thoroughbred dates to run 26 programs in 13 weeks from October 5 through...
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By David Hooper, Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association
AUSTIN, (TTA) – The Fasig-Tipton Texas Summer Yearling Sale is set for its annual renewal beginning at 10am CDT on Tuesday, August 30, in the Texas Thoroughbred Sales Pavilion at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie. This year’s catalog of 372 yearlings has been augmented by the addition...
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By David Hooper, Executive Director, Texas Thoroughbed Association,
AUSTIN, (TTA) – What a difference a year makes. Discussion of 2011 racing dates proposals took five meetings at the Class 1 tracks and one meeting in Austin in 2010 before requests were considered and formally finalized at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Texas Racing Commission....
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