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Lone Star Park: Fewer stakes, new racing series in 2012

Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie announced the track’s 2012 Spring Thoroughbred Season features 12 stakes, down from 19 in 2011, including two graded stakes, with purses totaling $1.3 million. Read More

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Lone Star Park drops three major stakes

Lone Star Park has discontinued its annual Million Day program of stakes for 2012, but that card’s traditional anchor, the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap, will again be run on Memorial Day. The race will be linked with two other stakes, one at Lone Star and one at Remington Park, by an ow...Read More

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Handle Down Slightly at Remington Park

Handle figures were down slightly at the Remington Park Thoroughbred meet that ended Saturday night. The meet followed a 2010 season in which the track posted a 48 percent increase in handle on its live races due to an expanded simulcast network. Remington Park in Oklahoma City raced 67 dates this y...Read More

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Global Gaming has plans for Lone Star

Global Gaming Solutions, which took over ownership of Lone Star Park in May, will jump into a series of projects designed to improve the track’s facilities and enhance its operations once the meet closes Sunday.“We’ll spend millions before the end of this calendar,” said John Elliott, the 53-year-ol...Read More

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Global Gaming to Upgrade Lone Star

Global Gaming Solutions, which received a license to operate Lone Star Park two months ago, has announced that it will begin a multi-million dollar renovation at the Texas facility. The renovation will begin with the Post Time Pavilion, Lone Star Park’s daily simulcasting facility. It will be ...Read More

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Racing has a future in Texas

At least Texas racing has a future. For two years, Lone Star Park languished in bankruptcy-bureaucratic limbo. Simple survival became the objective. Prospering, improving, progressing – Lone Star couldn’t afford such objectives and goals. But it can now.Read More

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Lone Star Park Sale Finally Approved

The Texas Racing Commission approved the change of ownership of Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie at its meeting Friday in Austin.The sale of Lone Star for $48.7 million had been approved in October 2009 by a Delaware bankruptcy court. But the transfer awaited approval of the Texas Racing Commission.Read More

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Global Gaming Reinvents Remington Park

A subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation plans to unveil its multimillion dollar refurbishment of Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on March 3, a day before the start of the track’s Quarter Horse meet. The improvemenets inlcude an infield video board with what track officials describe as the lar...Read More

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Board Supports New Lone Star Ownership

The Board of Directors of the Texas Thoroughbred Association has passed a resolution in support of an ownership transfer of Lone Star Park from Magna Entertainment Corp. to Global Gaming, it was announced in a press release Feb. 11. Global Gaming successfully bid in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to purchase...Read More

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Remington Park has new look for 2011

When Global Gaming RP, a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation, took over Remington Park on Jan. 1, 2010, CEO John Elliott and his management team were confident they could re-shape Oklahoma’s largest track into a racing and gaming showplace. But even Elliott admitted last week that he was surprised at...Read More

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Lone Star Park license remains in limbo

The Texas Racing Commission has asked the attorney general to determine whether it's constitutional to require applicants to live in the state for 10 years before filing for a racing license. The question, filed Monday by commission Chairman Rolando Pablos, involves the pending license transfer of ...Read More

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Remington hires Dan Fick

Having just completed its most successful season in years, Remington Park in Oklahoma City took steps Tuesday to ensure a successful off-season by announcing that Dan Fick will become the racetrack's director of racing in 2011. This move also could affect Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie. This was Gl...Read More

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A Renaissance at Remington Park

Remington Park’s 23rd season may prove as meaningful as its first. In 1988, Remington opened as “the palace on the plains.” But it just as easily could have been called “the envy of Texas.”While Texas racing languished tepidly in an incubator of intrigue, Remington brought major-league racing to the...Read More

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Lone Star extension

Regarding the sale of Lone Star Park, Global Gaming Solutions has negotiated an extension of its purchase agreement with Magna Entertainment into the first quarter of next year. During that period, Global Gaming, according to a company official, will cover any cash needs the racetrack might hav...Read More

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Layoffs at Lone Star

Lone Star Park laid off several employees Friday, including director of communications Dan Leary and, according to two sources at the racetrack, Post Time Pavilion director John Records. Although Lone Star's thoroughbred season concluded in July and its quarter horse season ended last mont...Read More

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What's Going On at Lone Star Park?

Horse racing and wisdom lead separate lives. Grand Prairie's Lone Star Park serves as the most recent example. Right now, no one seems to want to own the track. This adventure began as just another routine acquisition. The former owner, Magna Entertainment, wanted out. A bankruptcy judge approved th...Read More

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Texas racing in turmoil

It was a quake. And the Texas horse industry was shaken to its very foundations by what happened Tuesday in Austin. Or rather by what didn't happen.Lone Star Park didn't get a new owner Tuesday. The racetrack remains where it has been for 13 months, in bureaucratic limbo, its future uncertain. And ...Read More

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humphrey · For YEARS these clowsn stood by and cow towed to the Bible belt letting all their well bred horses run right across the borders in New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisianna and Oklahoma.and Now they can;t get their act together,,,,,Nuts · 941 days ago ·

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Lone Star on hold

Shortly after chairman Rolando Pablos called this morning's meeting of the Texas Racing Commission to order, he announced that Global Gaming had asked that its business be taken off the agenda. And, of course, that business was the reason the meeting room here at the Department of Public Safety...Read More

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Will Global Gaming turn around Lone Star?

The quarter horse season ended Saturday night, with Bodacious Dash winning the $1,036,612 Texas Classic Futurity.The Magna era at Lone Star Park could end Tuesday, with the Texas Racing Commission's meeting in Austin.If there's any meaningful subtlety connecting the two events, it's this: With new o...Read More

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Limey · I hope that the TRC approves the new ownership. Its so disappointing to not have quality Horse Racing in this state. We are stuck with declining purses and a limited spring summer meet at LSP and a little attended Qtr horse season> · 946 days ago ·

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Limey · If only the legislators would put the Slot Revenue issue in front of the voters , we may be able to see higher purses ? I just dont see the legislators doing this however . Has anyone taken the time to note the number of Texas license plates in AR, OK and LA and NM at their tracks · 946 days ago ·

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humphrey · hello racino, goodbye racing · 946 days ago ·

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icyhotboo · Horse racing like many other things works on the principle of supply and demand unfortunately they have lost the interest of the youth. To many other exciting things happening than going to the races and seeing maybe 20 good 3yos and older Mares racing.All the good ones go right to stud. The cut their own throats. · 946 days ago ·

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humphrey · No stars..This year showed what happens with star power. Why does the attendance ALWAYS go up when the Yankees come to town? People what to see stars play...The attendance at Anita would always be higher when old John Henry ran........Star power works....Good friend stated that the NTRA should have purchased FUnny Cide and just taken him around to tracks visiting to show the fans a real K Derby winner. · 945 days ago ·

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Remington Perks

Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., has had slot machines for nearly five years, but the higher purses and bigger fields revenue from the machines have produced. Along with recent upgrades to the facility under the new ownership of Global Gaming—part of the Native American tribe Chickasaw Nation...Read More

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humphrey · Funny when it opened we were all told that in 5 years all courses would be equitrack and look how long the plastic covered sand granules lasted. · 990 days ago ·

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Paulick Report - Lone Star Park: Fewer stakes, new racing series in 2012

Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie announced the track’s 2012 Spring Thoroughbred Season features 12 stakes, down from 19 in 2011, including two graded s...

Lone Star Park drops three major stakes

Lone Star Park has discontinued its annual Million Day program of stakes for 2012, but that card’s traditional anchor, the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star...

Handle Down Slightly at Remington Park

Handle figures were down slightly at the Remington Park Thoroughbred meet that ended Saturday night. The meet followed a 2010 season in which the trac...

Global Gaming has plans for Lone Star

Global Gaming Solutions, which took over ownership of Lone Star Park in May, will jump into a series of projects designed to improve the track’s facil...

Global Gaming to Upgrade Lone Star

Global Gaming Solutions, which received a license to operate Lone Star Park two months ago, has announced that it will begin a multi-million dollar re...

West Points - Racing has a future in Texas

At least Texas racing has a future. For two years, Lone Star Park languished in bankruptcy-bureaucratic limbo. Simple survival became the objective. P...

Lone Star Park Sale Finally Approved

The Texas Racing Commission approved the change of ownership of Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie at its meeting Friday in Austin.The sale of Lone Star...

Global Gaming Reinvents Remington Park

A subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation plans to unveil its multimillion dollar refurbishment of Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on March 3, a ...

Board Supports New Lone Star Ownership

The Board of Directors of the Texas Thoroughbred Association has passed a resolution in support of an ownership transfer of Lone Star Park from Magna ...

Remington Park has new look for 2011

When Global Gaming RP, a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation, took over Remington Park on Jan. 1, 2010, CEO John Elliott and his management team were c...

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