Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, has announced an amended stakes schedule featuring 18 races worth $1.4 million. The track also announced Thursday an amended racing schedule of 36 dates through Aug. 2.

The season started May 22.

Lone Star had to delay the opening of its meet about five weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. It had been set for 44 dates.

There are four stakes dates, all featuring multiple races. Texas Champions Day, a program of seven stakes for statebreds, will be held June 14. The event is annually held at Sam Houston, but was canceled this year when due to a blown transformer prior to the start of the stakes March 21.

Each of the divisional stakes will be worth $75,000.

The second stakes program is June 28. There are three open company stakes, each worth $75,000. The Lone Star Park Turf Stakes is for fillies and mares at a mile; the Grand Prairie Stakes is for 3-year-olds at a mile and a sixteenth; and the Lone Star Mile is for 4-year-olds and up. 

The Stars of Texas Preview Day on July 5 features four restricted stakes, each worth $75,000: the Wayne Hanks Memorial, Lane’s End Danny Shifflett Scholarship Stakes, divisions of the Texas Stallion Stakes.

 The final stakes program July 26 is Stars of Texas Day. The Valor Farm and Highlander Training Center Assault Stakes are both worth $75,000, while there are a pair of $100,000 divisions of the Texas Thoroughbred Futurity. 

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