The Maryland Sire Stakes has important date changes at Rosecroft.
Category: Staking
Sire Stakes bonanza at Oak Grove
Admiral Hill, Ari Ferrari J and Mambacita will all look to complete clean sweeps of the Kentucky Sire Stakes summer series for 4-year-olds in their respective $150,000 championship events on Tuesday (June 25), which highlight a racing week at Oak Grove Racing & Gaming worth over $1.4 million in purses.
Last call (June 24) for Dan Patch FFA nominations at Running Aces
Nominations for the 2024 Dan Patch Free-for-all pace at Running Aces are due on Monday (June 24).
June 15 nominations due to Scioto for Hill and Ewart
Nominations for the Charlie Hill Memorial Trot and Jim Ewart Memorial Pace, held at Eldorado Scioto Downs, must be postmarked by June 15. Both events carry a $250,000 (est.) purse and will be held on Saturday (Sept. 7).
Ocean Downs announces summer late closers
Ocean Downs will offer a quartet of late-closing series — two for 2-year-olds and two for claiming pacers — through the balance of its 2024 meeting.
California Sires Stakes nomination payments due July 1
Nominating and sustaining payments are due July 1 (postmarked) for the California Sires Stakes program.
Last call for May 15 stakes payments
The May 15 deadline is drawing near for many stakes payments. Below are a list of notices that have recently been submitted to the USTA Newsroom.
Two divisions still open for the Next Generation at Scioto
With the first of three deadlines having passed for nominations, both the 2-year-old colt pace and 2-year-old filly trot Next Generation events have filled, with the colt pace being oversubscribed. A lottery drawing will be held during Eldorado Scioto Downs’ opening week, on Saturday (May 11) to see who will secure each of the nine available spots for the colt pace.
DSBF nominating payments for yearlings due May 15
DSBF nominating payments for yearlings are due to be postmarked by May 15.
Maine Sire Stake program sustaining and yearling nomination deadline is May 15
The deadline for the Maine Sire Stake program 2- and 3-year-old sustaining and yearling nomination forms is May 15.