Lone Star Park's 2022 Stakes Schedule Increased $600K
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Horses break from the gate at Lone Star Park
Lone Star Park announced Dec. 21 a $600,000 increase to its 2022 Thoroughbred stakes schedule during a planned 48-day season from April 28-July 24. Twenty-one races comprise the stakes schedule, worth $2,825,000.
The Texas track will mostly race in the evenings beginning at 6:35 p.m. CT on Thursdays and Fridays and on weekends and holidays at 1:35 p.m. There will be special twilight post times of 5 p.m. July 3-4.
The highlight of the stakes schedule is Lone Star Million Day on Memorial Day, led by the $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile (G3) for 3-year-olds and older at one mile. New to this year's Lone Star Million day card will be the $100,000 guaranteed Speightstown Sprint for 3-year-olds and up at six furlongs on dirt.
Later in the meet, the Summer Turf Festival will return July 16 with significant purse increases in all four stakes. Other than the $75,000 Bluebonnet Stakes which kicks off the season on opening night all other stakes will be held on one of four dates:
- Lone Star Million Day, Monday, May 30—six stakes worth a total of $1.2 million
- Lone Star Showcase Day, Sunday, June 19—five stakes worth a total of $375,000
- Summer Turf Festival, Saturday, July 16—four stakes worth a total of $750,000
- Stars of Texas Day, Sunday, July 17—five stakes worth a total of $425,000
Total purses will average an estimated $268,000 per day.
| 2022 Lone Star Park Stakes Schedule | ||||||
| Date | Purse | Race | Grade | Conditions | Distance | Surface |
| April 28 | $75,000 | Bluebonnet Stakes | 3&UP, F&M (TX BRED) | 6 1/2 F | Dirt | |
| May 30 | $400,000 | Steve Sexton Mile | 3 | 3&UP | 1 M | Dirt |
| May 30 | $300,000 | Texas Derby | 3YO | 1 1/16 M | Dirt | |
| May 30 | $200,000 | Ouija Board Distaff | 3&UP, F&M | 1 M | Turf | |
| May 30 | $100,000 | Chamberlain Bridge Stakes | 3&UP | 5 F | Turf | |
| May 30 | $100,000 | Memorial Day Sprint | 3&UP, F&M | 6 F | Dirt | |
| May 30 | $100,000 | Speightstown Sprint | 3&UP | 6 F | Dirt | |
| June 19 | $75,000 | Danny Shifflett Scholarship Stakes | 3&UP, F&M (TX BRED) | 7 1/2 F | Turf | |
| June 19 | $75,000 | Wayne Hanks Memorial Stakes | 3&UP (TX BRED) | 6 1/2 F | Dirt | |
| June 19 | $75,000 | Texas Stallion Stakes (Pan Zareta Division) | 2YO F | 5 F | Dirt | |
| June 19 | $75,000 | Texas Stallion Stakes (Staunch Avenger Division) | 2YO, C&G | 5 F | Dirt | |
| June 19 | $75,000 | Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame Stakes | 3&UP (TX BRED) | 1 1/16 M | Turf | |
| July 16 | $300,000 | Texas Turf Classic | 3&UP | 1 1/8 M | Turf | |
| July 16 | $150,000 | Wasted Tears Stakes | 3&UP, F&M | 1 1/16 M | Turf | |
| July 16 | $150,000 | Grand Prairie Turf Sprint | 3&UP | 5 F | Turf | |
| July 16 | $150,000 | Chicken Fried Stakes | 3&UP, F&M | 5 F | Turf | |
| July 17 | $75,000 | Highlander Training Center Assault Stakes | 3&UP (TX BRED) | 1 M | Turf | |
| July 17 | $75,000 | Valor Farm Stakes | 3&UP, F&M (TX BRED) | 6 F | Dirt | |
| July 17 | $100,000 | Texas Thoroughbred Futurity (Filly Division) | 2YO F | 5 1/2 F | Dirt | |
| July 17 | $100,000 | Texas Thoroughbred Futurity (Colt & Gelding Division) | 2YO, C&G | 5 1/2 F | Dirt | |
| July 17 | $75,000 | Fiesta Mile Stakes | 3&UP, F&M (TX BRED) | 1 M | Turf | |