Arizona is mainly concentrated on thoroughbred horse racing, with four major race tracks that conduct live racing and year-long simulcasting. Arizona is home to Turf Paradise and the Turf Paradise Derby, a $1 million preparatory race for 3-year-olds vying a place at the prestigious Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and all the way to the Triple Crown.
Turf Paradise was born when Phoenix businessman Walter Cluer, purchased 1,400 acres of barren desert in 1954. Cluer was also a horse owner whose personal dream was to build a first-class race track in Phoenix. The track was inaugurated in 1956.
The Turf Paradise Derby is a $1 million stakes race held annually in February. It is participated by top 3-year-old contenders eyeing a spot in the Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown. List of Kentucky Derby Preparatory Races
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Rillito Downs Park Racetrack is a five-eighths mile racino in Tucson, Arizona. A recently remodeled track, it offers Quarterhorse, Thoroughbred and on occasion, even Arabian horse racing. This famous track was also the birthplace of many racing innovations that are still in use today.
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Yavapai Downs (formerly Prescott Downs) is a one half mile horse track in Prescott Valley, Arizona featuring quarter horse and thoroughbred racing. It offers live racing from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The track is a 1 mile Thoroughbred and Quarter horse track. During the off season other events include the Yavapai County Fair, Horse Events, and exhibitions.
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Summer Bird becomes the Belmont Stakes winner and spoils jockey Calvin Borel's bid to become the first jockey to win the Triple Crown aboard different horses.
See the 2009 Belmont Stakes Results & Payouts, the Preakness results & payouts and the Kentucky Derby Results and Payouts.
With the Triple Crown races over, horse racing fans can look forward to the summer racing season. Lined up this summer is the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on August 2 and the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on August 29.
The 2009 Breeders' Cup, thoroughbred racing's most prestigious event, consisting of 14 Breeders' Cup races and $25.5 million in purses, will be held on November 6-7, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
Find out the Breeders' Cup schedule, see the 2009 Breeders' Cup odds or take a look back in time in last year's Breeders' Cup entries and the previous Breeders' Cup winners.
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