Oklahoma Derby highlights Remington Park stakes schedule

The Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby headlines a schedule

of 35 stakes races for the upcoming 2014 Thoroughbred season at Remington Park.

The purse total for the complete stakes schedule is worth more than $3.5

million.

The 26th Oklahoma Derby at 1 1/8 miles is the lead event on a special Sunday

afternoon of racing at Remington Park on September 28. The program also features

the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks, $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup, $100,000 Remington Green Stakes, $75,000 Kip Deville Stakes, $50,000

Flashy Lady Stakes and $50,000 Ladies on the Lawn Stakes.

The seven Oklahoma Derby Day stakes races boast $1.025 million in total purses with

six races for open company. The Ladies on the Lawn for Oklahoma-bred fillies and

mares is the lone exception.

The stakes schedule gets underway August 16, the second night of the season, with the $175,000 Governor's Cup at 1 1/8 miles and $75,000 David M.

Vance Stakes at six furlongs. The Governor's Cup serves as the final leg of the

Global Gaming Triple which began with the Texas Mile and Lone Star Park

Handicap this spring at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas.

The initial open-company turf stakes is the $75,000 Edward J. DeBartolo Memorial

Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on August 23.

Remington Park's series of two-year-old stakes will begin with the Kip Deville at

six furlongs on Oklahoma Derby Day. The $100,000 Clever Trevor Stakes on November 7 is next at seven furlongs. The series culminates with the top

two-year-old

race of the meeting, the $250,000 Springboard Mile on the last day of the

season, December 14.

The $100,000 Trapeze Stakes offers two-year-old fillies a final stakes event on

the season. The one-mile race on December 14 serves as a companion race to the

Springboard Mile.

The season's final afternoon will also feature a new race to the schedule at

Remington Park. The $100,000 She's All In Stakes, for older fillies and mares at

a mile and 70 yards, offers older distaff runners a two-turn stakes over the main

track. The race is named in honor of the recently retired Oklahoma-bred mare who

was a graded winner that accumulated more than $1.1 million in career earnings. She's

All In won a record four consecutive Oklahoma Classics Distaff events, part of

her 11 career triumphs at Remington Park.

The rich Oklahoma Classics program, for eligible Oklahoma-breds, falls on

October 17. The eight divisional races carry an overall purse estimation of

more than $1 million. The $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup leads the night at

1 1/16 miles. Overall, there are 16 stakes races scheduled for eligible

Oklahoma-bred competitors.

Another new addition to this year's schedule is a pair of stakes races for

eligible Arkansas-bred runners. The $50,000 Razorback Futurity and $50,000 Lady

Razorback Futurity will be run on November 8. Both of the two-year-old races

will cover six furlongs.

The 67-date Thoroughbred season begins on August 15 and continues thru

December 14. Once the opening weekend has been completed, Remington Park

will move to a normal weekly schedule of Wednesday thru Saturday racing. The

regular first race on a nightly basis is set for 7 p.m. (CT).

Special 1:30 p.m. post times are in order for the following race dates -- Labor Day

Monday, September 1; Oklahoma Derby Sunday, September 28; Black Friday, November 28; and

Springboard Mile Sunday, December 14.

Remington Park will begin live racing earlier than normal on Breeders' Cup

Saturday, November 1, alternating events with the lucrative World Championship

stakes races that afternoon from Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

Remington Park is open daily at 10:30 a.m. for simulcast racing. Admission, general parking

and valet parking are always free. For more information, please visit

remingtonpark.com.

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