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07/09/11 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The up-and-coming Skip a Smile indicated his intent to be a player in the region's handicap ranks on Saturday, when he closed fast for a half-length win over favorite Lydia's Last Step in the $75,000 Assault Stakes at Lone Star Park.
06/29/11 Shotgun Gulch will soon head to Hollywood. The Grade 1 winner based at Lone Star Park is scheduled to ship out Sunday morning for Southern California, where she will run in the Grade 2, $200,000 A Gleam Handicap for fillies and mares at seven furlongs July 16.
05/26/11 Game On Dude, who in March won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap, will lead a contingent of four horses trainer Bob Baffert plans to run Monday on the Million Day card of stakes at Lone Star Park.
05/14/11 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas- Halifax Flyer showed the same kick he has at one turn going two on Saturday, when he rallied to overtake favorite Tamtastic for a half-length win in the $100,000 colts and geldings division of the Texas Stallion Stakes at Lone Star Park.
04/14/11 Trainer coming off best Lone Star Park season, pair of Breeders' Cup victories
02/24/11 Veteran jockey, who won four titles at Lone Star Park through 2003, got career win number 3,000 earlier this month at Fair Grounds, where he is now based. He is a finalist this year for the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.
11/25/10 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.
11/18/10 DALLAS -- A group seeking to operate Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie had the agenda item deleted from a Texas Racing Commission meeting. The Dallas Morning News reported yesterday that no reason was given by Global Gaming Solutions on why it asked the issue to be removed from Tuesday...
11/18/10 An attorney for the proposed operators of Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie asked the Texas Racing Commission to remove its change in ownership request from the panel's Tuesday agenda.
09/16/10 Initiatives to consolidate Texas thoroughbred dates at Lone Star Park fell through for 2011. We might see them again next year.
09/15/10 Lone Star Park near Dallas begins what might be its final meet under the ownership of MI Developments on Friday night, when it puts on a 10-race card for Quarter Horses highlighted by the $25,000 Classic Chevrolet Heartbeat of America Handicap.
08/31/10 A colt by the late stallion Wildcat Shoes topped the Fasig-Tipton Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park on Monday when he fetched $111,000 from the Coteau Grove Farm of Keith and Ginger Myers. The Louisiana-bred is a half-brother to 2-year-old stakes winner Toro Bravo.
07/10/10 The prospective new operators of Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie are committed to building a luxury hotel-casino on the grounds of the horse racetrack if Texas approves a major expansion of gambling, Grand Prairie Mayor Charles England says.
06/02/10 Multiple stakes winner and millionaire Jonesboro has been retired following his seventh-place finish in the $300,000 Grade III Lone Star Park Handicap on Monday afternoon at Lone Star Park in suburban Dallas, owner Mike Langford said.
04/12/10 Chris Landeros was a rookie at Lone Star Park last season and won more reasons than any other jockey competiting at Grand Prairie
04/07/10 The 14th season of thoroughbred racing beginning Thursday at Lone Star Park will be the bridge that connects the old and the new.
03/29/10 Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie will be host today to the annual Fasig-Tipton auction of 2-year-olds in training, sponsored by the Texas Thoroughbred Association.
01/15/10 Lone Star Park has eliminated four stakes races and has reduced stakes purses by more than $860,000 for its upcoming season.
01/13/10 The 2010 edition of the Grand Prairie everyday Yellow Pages has been delivered to homes across the area, putting information about local businesses from heating and air conditioning contractors to realtors at your fingertips. Use maps and seating charts for local venues to plan your outings to Lone Star Park, American Airlines Center and the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
10/28/09 Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Magna Entertainment Corp. , the bankrupt horse-track company controlled by billionaire Frank Stronach , won court approval to sell the Lone Star Park track in Texas to Global Gaming Solutions LLC.
10/28/09 Magna bankruptcy judge approves sale of Lone Star Park after second auction |