01/14/2023
The Re*****on Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season, which begins Thursday, March 9, will be jam-packed with some of the top horses in the country battling for stakes money and nearly $6 million in estimated purses. The stakes schedule includes 14 Grade 1 stakes.
A total of $5,875,000 in stakes purse money is on the schedule and that could surpass the $6 million mark when all is said and done. Of the 14 Grade 1 races on the schedule, six of those will occur on Champions’ Night, the final evening of the season, Saturday June 3. The huge evening featuring the $1 million Heritage Place Futurity, a 350-yard race for 2-year-old Quarter Horses.
A total of 50 race dates are set for Re*****on Park with a regular schedule of Thursdays through Sundays. First post time is set nightly for 6 p.m. except for Sundays when it is 4 p.m. There are three dates that have special post times – Saturday, May 6, at Noon on Kentucky Derby Day; Saturday, May 20, at Noon on Preakness Stakes Day and Champions’ Night, Saturday, June 3, with a 5 p.m. first post. All times are Central.
The six Grade 1 events on closing day are the Heritage Place Futurity, the $250,000 Debbie Schauf Re*****on Park Championship, the $100,000 Junos Request, the $200,000 Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Futurity, and the $30,000 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Stakes.
The final night also features the Grade 2, $250,000 Heritage Place Derby, the $250,000 Heritage Place Oaks and the $100,000 Heritage Place Juvenile. The total stakes purses for the ultimate program is at an estimated total of $2,230,000.
Last year’s closing day extravaganza included 2021 World Champion Quarter Horse, Danjer, and the Champion Horse of the Meet and winner of the Heritage Place Futurity, Tres Crystals. Other champion title winners for the 2022 meet were owners Dunn Ranch of Wynnewood, Okla.; trainer Santos Carrizales, and Francisco Calderon, the 2021 AQHA Champion jockey. It was the second year in a row Dunn Ranch was top owner while Carrizales and Calderon won their first titles at Re*****on Park.
The entire stakes schedule for the spring season at Re*****on Park:
March 10 – R-Grade 2, $68,000 Mighty Deck Three, 3yo and older, 250 yards (OK)
March 12 – Grade 3, $50,000 SLM Big Daddy, 3yo and older, 550 yards
March 25 – Grade 2, $400,000 Oklahoma Futurity, 2-year-olds, 300 yards
March 25 – Grade 3, $250,000 Oklahoma Derby, 3-year-olds, 350 yards
March 25 – Grade 1, $200,000 Oklahoma Paint & Appaloosa Futurity, 2-year-olds, 300 yards
March 25 – Grade 2, $50,000 Eastex, 3yo and older, 350 yards
March 25 – Grade 2, $50,000 Decketta, fillies and mares, 3yo and older, 350 yards
March 25 - $50,000 Oklahoma Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 300 yards
March 25 – Grade 1, $35,000 Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Stakes, 3-year-olds, 350 yards
March 25 - $30,000 Oklahoma Paint & Appaloosa Futurity Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 300 yards
April 1 – R-Grade 2, $68,000 Mr Jet Moore, 3yo and older, 350 yards (OK)
April 2 – Grade 2, $50,000 (est.) Bank of America Oklahoma Championship Challenge, 3yo and older, 440 yards
April 2 – Grade 2, $30,000 (est.) Re*****on Park Distance Challenge, 3yo and older, 870 yards
April 14 – Grade 2, $20,000 Paul Harber Memorial, 3yo and older, Paints/Appaloosas, 350 yards
April 22 – R-Grade 1, $900,000 Re*****on Park Futurity, 2-year-olds, 330 yards (OK)
April 22 – R-Grade 2, $200,000 Re*****on Park Derby, 3-year-olds, 400 yards (OK)
April 22 – $150,000 Re*****on Park Oaks, fillies, 3-year-olds, 400 yards (OK)
April 22 – R-Grade 1, $100,000 Dee R***r Sooner State Stakes, 3yo and older, 400 yards (OK)
April 22 - $100,000 Re*****on Park Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 330 yards (OK)
April 22 – Grade 3, $75,000 Easy Date, fillies and mares, 3yo and older, 350 yards
April 22 – R-Grade 3, $68,000 Laico Bird, 2-year-olds, 330 yards (OK)
April 22 – R-Grade 3, $68,000 Mr Master Bug, 3-year-olds, 350 yards (OK)
April 22 – Grade 2, $50,000 Bob Moore Memorial, 3yo and older, 300 yards
April 29 – Grade 1, $100,000 American Paint Classic Futurity, 2-year-olds, 330 yards
April 29 – Grade 1, $25,000 American Paint Stakes, 3-year-olds, 350 yards
April 29 - $20,000 Victoria Ennis Memorial, 2-year-olds, Paints/Appaloosas, 330 yards
May 6 – Grade 1, $100,000 Leo, 3yo and older, 400 yards
May 6 – Grade 2, $50,000 Pauls Valley, 3yo and older, 870 yards
May 20 – Grade 1, $30,000 Mister Lewie Memorial, 3yo and older, Paints/Appaloosas, 400 yards
May 27 – R-Grade 3, $70,000 FL Lady Bug, 2-year-olds, 350 yards, (OK)
May 27 – R-Grade 3, $70,000 Easy Jet, 2-year-olds, 350 yards, (OK)
May 27 – R-Grade 2, $68,000 Boyd Morris Memorial, 3yo and older, 400 yards, (OK)
May 27 – R-Grade 3, $50,000 Jack Brooks, 3-year-olds, 350 yards (OK)
June 3 – Grade 1, $1,000,000 Heritage Place Futurity, 2-year-olds, 350 yards
June 3 – Grade 2, $250,000 Heritage Place Derby, 3-year-olds, 400 yards
June 3 – Grade 1, $250,000 Debbie Schauf Re*****on Park Championship, 3yo and older, 440 yards
June 3 – Grade 1, $200,000 Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Futurity, 2-year-olds, 350 yards
June 3 – Grade 1, $100,000 Junos Request, fillies and mares, 3yo and older, 400 yards
June 3 - $100,000 Heritage Place Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 350 yards
June 3 – Grade 1, $50,000 Re*****on Park Distance Championship, 3yo and older, 870 yards
June 3 - $250,000 Heritage Place Oaks, 3-year-old fillies, 400 yards
June 3 – Grade 1, $30,000 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 3yo and older, Paints/Appaloosas, 440 yards
Please note, the purses for all futurities, derbies and oaks are estimated.
“R” denotes a graded stakes race restricted to Oklahoma-breds.
(OK) denotes a stakes race for Oklahoma-breds.
📸: Dustin Orona Photography
