winter weather

Racing at Oaklawn Park has been cancelled for Saturday, it was announced Friday evening. The GII Rebel Stakes card remains on schedule for Sunday with first post at 12:00 p.m., gates and infield open at 10:30 a.m. The Monday card will also run as scheduled, first post 12:30 p.m., gates open at 11:00 a.m. There was a winter storm in the Hot Springs area earlier this week.

Oaklawn Park has postponed Thursday, Jan. 30's card, rescheduling it to Monday, Feb. 3. Severe weather, including possible flash flooding, is forecasted for the area for Thursday. The Jan. 30 race date was originally added to make up for other race dates lost to winter weather. Weather has repeatedly played havoc on Oaklawn's calendar this season. Live racing is expected to resume Friday, Jan. 31.

With the recent winter weather-related cancellations, Parx Racing, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association (PTHA), will offer live racing on Thursday, Jan. 30 in an effort to reschedule days which have been lost due to adverse conditions, the groups announced jointly Friday afternoon. The long-term goal is to add race days in the coming weeks to assist horsemen who have been impacted by the card cancellations. Days will be added in the future using 10-day weather outlooks to determine the best dates, but in the interim, Parx will...

Weather woes continue to plague Oaklawn Park, which is cancelling the Monday, Jan. 20 card in advance due to the forecast of freezing temperatures, according to an update from officials at the Hot Springs track. The race card originally slated for Jan. 20--Martin Luther King, Jr. Day--has been rescheduled to Thursday, Jan. 23. A four-day racing weekend is anticipated at Oaklawn with the addition of Jan. 23, highlighted by the $1-million GIII Southwest Stakes for 3-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles on Jan. 25. Racing at Oaklawn was cancelled for most...

Oaklawn Park, like much of the country impacted by recent winter weather, will add Thursday, Jan. 30 to the current racing calendar in an effort to recoup lost days of live racing. In a release from the track, officials at Oaklawn said the added day was in collaboration with the HBPA and additional days may be added later in the meet. Racing at Oaklawn was cancelled for most of Dec. 28 and for the entire weekend of Jan. 10-12  due to weather. Live racing in Hot Springs is slated to...

The Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, which follows a week of snow and ice storms and amidst frigid temperatures, opens its three-day run Monday in Lexington, with bidding scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. The catalogue increased to 1,317 horses with the addition of five supplemental entries last Thursday, but there were already 340 head withdrawn from the auction as of Sunday evening. The January sale follows a strong renewal of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, which set a record for median and produced a significant increase...

Despite the best efforts from the track maintenance team at Turfway Park Racing & Gaming, the lingering effects from the extreme colt and winter weather have rendered it impossible to conduct live racing Friday evening. Crews continue to work around the clock to try to prepare the track for the rest of the weekend, and racing is expected to continue on Saturday, with a first post at 5:55 p.m. ET. The Pick 5 carryover of $180,036 originally slated for Friday will now carry over to Saturday's late sequence. Sunday racing...

With severe winter weather continuing to plague parts of the country and more on the way, Oaklawn Park has canceled racing for the entire upcoming weekend. Live racing was originally scheduled for Friday to Sunday, Jan. 10-12, but will now resume Friday, Jan. 17. The Hot Springs track has not yet announced a rescheduling of the races that were to be held this weekend. One black-type race--the $150,000 Pippin Stakes for fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, going 1 1/16 miles--was slated for Saturday, Jan. 11.

Due to the lingering effects of a winter storm that swept through Northern Kentucky on Sunday, Jan. 5, officials at Turfway Park Racing & Gaming have canceled its live racing program scheduled for this Thursday, Jan. 9. A Late Pick 5 carryover in the amount of $180,036 will now shift to Friday's nine-race slate with first post scheduled for 5:55 p.m. ET. Track officials indicated that they would monitor the weather forecast through the coming week and that they would provide appropriate updates regarding potential changes to the Friday program...

Winter weather conditions on the East Coast and the Midwest continue to impact racing operations at a variety of racetracks. Parx Racing in suburban Philadelphia cancelled Monday's scheduled live program in the morning hours and by mid-afternoon, word was circulating that the live card for Tuesday was also called off. Temperatures well-below freezing prompted weekend cancellations at Aqueduct and Laurel and although temperatures in the region flirted with the 40-degree mark on Monday, the thawing and re-freezing of racing surfaces is surely causing nightmares for track superintendents. Temperatures had once...

Oaklawn Park, forced to cancel a number of race dates this month--including this coming weekend's live racing--due to winter weather, has moved the entire GIII Southwest S. card to Saturday, Feb. 3. A GI Kentucky Derby points race, the $800,000 Southwest is worth 20 points to the winner and points on a scale of 10-6-4-2 to the second- through fifth-place finishers. Although the Southwest was originally scheduled for Jan. 27 and racing is currently scheduled for that date, several stakes races have been reshuffled at the Hot Springs oval due...

As a result of inclement winter weather expected this weekend in the Midwest, Oaklawn Park has cancelled the weekend's Feb. 4-6 cards and will bring them back in March, the track reported Thursday. The GIII Bayakoa S., which was set to be run Saturday, will be brought back Saturday, Feb. 12 as part of an 11-race card that also includes the GIII Razorback H. Three Thursday cards--Mar. 17, 24 and 31--have been added in March to make up the postponed dates.