Turfway Park to add three Stakesraces in December

Turfway Park is planning to add three IntoRaces in December and to increase Maiden Special Weight Portemulones from $ 80,000 to $ 90,000 during the upcoming meetings, track functions told at the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Funde Advisory Committee of Corporation and Gaming Corporation.

Gary Palmisano Jr., vice -president of racing for Churchill Downs Inc., that owns Turfway Park, said that the extra bet will be placed in December, when the track has its highest field size. This also comes in a month when Los Alamitos Race Course Races many of the December data in California, which offer less competition than Sea or Santa Anita Park for exposure to simulcast and pre -set deployment.

“If you remember it all, we performed four efforts (in December) last year, and we bundled them together and called it the Turfway Park Synthetics Championship that delivered the handle almost 2 1/2 times last year,” he told the committee.

The synthetic championships of Turfway Park will return in 2025. The extra commitment is announced that Wednesday will be held on Saturday, which had been without dedication last year because of the positioning of four Investoons at the Turfway Park Synthetic Championships Program.

He said that while Turfway Park would soon want to promote $ 100,000 first races for horses with Kentucky-flocked horses, “we want to bump the bottom (in claiming races) because that is the bread and butter of our Kentucky circuit.”

Maiden Races in Kentucky are open events with a basic grant, plus a KTDF supplement that is only available for Kentucky-Breds, which usually explain most of the starters.

Wallets in Kentucky are reinforced by final-like historic horse races, game machines that have been very profitable for track operators.

In total, the Commission unanimously approved a KTDF allocation request of between $ 11.6 million and $ 12.4 million for Turfway during his vacation meeting in December and the winter/spring from 2026 from January to March.

Last year, Kentucky Downs– who organizes a short measurement and operates lucrative gaming facilities in the state – divided KTDF funds on Turfway Park to supplement its wallets. The track in the south of Kentucky did not do this on Wednesday.

Ted Nicholson, vice -president of racing at Kentucky Downs, said they will “probably” have money to send to Turfway, but that he had no time to completely evaluate the decision.

The committee also approved an increase in the registration costs of KTDF. Feul nominations rise from $ 75 to $ 95, yearlings rise from $ 100 to $ 140, and nominations of the racing age go from $ 350 to $ 700. Stallion nomination costs remain the same.

These approvals, such as all the committee, are subject to authorization by the KHRGC, which is usually a formality.

In other discussions for the committee:

• Civil servants of Kentucky Downs said that television reporting by NBC from a day of racing on the All-Turf Track during the recently closed meeting was a success, and they plan to have NBC return in 2026.
• Treat Rose at Kentucky Downs, as at Ellis Park And Churchill Downssaid civil servants.