Oklahoma City, OK, June 16, 2025 – The 2025 Remington Park Thoroughbred season begins on Friday, Aug. 8 and features regular major races in the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby and the $300,000 Remington Springboard Mile. A new addition this season, is the first major turf sprint stakes in track history.
The $250,000 Great West Turf Sprint will be included on the undercard of Oklahoma Derby Day on Sunday, Sept. 28. The Great West Turf Sprint will be five furlongs over the turf for 3-year-olds and older.
“We feel the addition of the Great West Turf Sprint adds more value to Oklahoma Derby Day and our overall stakes schedule,” said Matt Vance, Remington Park executive vice president of racing. “Our turf course is in prime condition for the first three months of our season. We believe the Great West will be a potential fit for horsemen looking for prep opportunities just over a month before competing in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. The five-furlong distance of the Great West is the exact same distance as the BC Turf Sprint at Del Mar this fall.”
The Great West Turf Sprint rekindles the name Great West, used in the early years at Remington Park for a local derby prep when the track offered a spring Thoroughbred season.
The Oklahoma Derby could include Kentucky Derby runners from this year, including the 2024 Springboard Mile winner Coal Battle, who is allowed automatic free entry into the race by virtue of his triumph in the top 2-year-old event at Remington Park. Coal Battle is owned by Norman Stables and trained by Lonnie Briley. Coal Battle ran 11th in the Kentucky Derby this year after winning the Grade 2, $1,250,000 Rebel Stakes in February at Oaklawn Park, then running third in the Grade 1, $1,500,000 Arkansas Derby in March.
Last year’s winner of the Oklahoma Derby was Most Wanted, a 3-year-old shipper from Ellis Park in Kentucky for owners Gary and Mary West, who also bred the horse. The trainer was Brad Cox, who became the first conditioner to win the richest race on the Remington Park schedule race four times.
The entire stakes schedule for the Remington Park season (OK in parenthesis if restricted to Oklahoma-breds; some purses are estimated):
Aug. 29 – $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Colts & Geldings Handicap, 3-year-olds, 7 furlongs (restricted)
Aug. 29 – $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Fillies Handicap, 3-year-old fillies, 7 furlongs (restricted)
Sept. 12 – $50,000 Red Earth Stakes, 3 and up (OK), 7-1/2 furlongs, turf
Sept. 12 – $50,000 Bob Barry Memorial Stakes, 3 and up (OK), Fillies & Mares, 7-1/2 furlongs, turf
Sept. 12 – $50,000 Cliff Berry Turf Sprint, 3 an -up (OK), 5 furlongs, turf
Sept. 28 – $200,000 Remington Park Oaks, 3-year-old fillies, 1-1/16 miles
Sept. 28 – $100,000 David M. Vance Stakes, 3 and up, 6 furlongs
Sept. 28 – Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby, 3-year-olds, 1-1/8 miles
Sept. 28 – $150,000 Clever Trevor Stakes, 2-year-olds, 6-1/2 furlongs
Sept. 28 – $50,000 E.L. Gaylord Memorial, 2-year-old fillies, 6-1/2 furlongs
Sept. 28 – $75,000 Ricks Memorial, 3 and up, Fillies & Mares, 1-1/16 miles, turf
Sept. 28 – $75,000 Remington Green Stakes, 3 and up, 1-1/8 miles, turf
Sept. 28 – $250,000 Great West Turf Sprint, 3 and up, 5 furlongs, turf
OKLAHOMA CLASSICS
Oct. 17 – $145,000 Distaff Handicap, 3 and up (OK), Fillies & Mares, 1 mile-70 yards
Oct. 17 – $40,000 Starter Allowance, 3 and up (OK), 7 furlongs
Oct. 17 – $40,000 Filly & Mare Starter Allowance, 3 and up (OK), Fillies & Mares, 7 furlongs
Oct. 17 – $175,000 Cup, 3 and up (OK), 1-1/16 miles
Oct. 17 – $130,000 Sprint, 3 and up (OK), 6 furlongs
Oct. 17 – $100,000 Juvenile, 2-year-old Colts & Geldings (OK), 6 furlongs
Oct. 17 – $130,000 Distaff Sprint, 3 and up Fillies & Mares (OK), 6 furlongs
Oct. 17 – $100,000 Lassie, 2-year-old Fillies (OK), 6 furlongs
Oct. 17 – $130,000 OKC Turf Handicap, 3 and up (OK), 1-1/16 miles, turf
Oct. 17 – $130,000 Distaff Turf, 3 and up Fillies & Mares (OK), 1-1/16 miles, turf
Nov. 7 – $50,000 Don C. McNeill Stakes, 2-year-olds (OK), 1 mile
Nov. 7 – $50,000 Slide Show Stakes, 2-year-old Fillies (OK), 1 mile
Nov. 7 – $50,000 Silver Goblin Stakes, 3 and up (OK), 6-1/2 furlongs
Dec. 20 – $300,000 Springboard Mile, 2-year-olds, 1 mile
Dec. 20 – $75,000 Toby Keith Stakes, 2-year-old Fillies, 1 mile
Dec. 20 – $75,000 Jeffrey A. Hawk Memorial, 3 and up, 1 mile-70 yards
Dec. 20 – $75,000 She’s All In Stakes, 3 and up, Fillies & Mares, 1 mile-70 yards
Dec. 20 – $50,000 Jim Thorpe Stakes, 3-year-olds (OK), 1 mile
Dec. 20 – $50,000 Useeit Stakes, 3-year-old Fillies (OK), 1 mile
The overall purses are estimated at more than $3.4 million for the 32-stakes schedule. There are eight stakes races set for the turf course, which will be in use from the start of the season through at least the month of October. There are 18 stakes events marked for Oklahoma-bred runners.
The regular Remington Park post time for the 2025 Thoroughbred Season is 6pm, 30-minutes earlier than one year ago. The meet also starts earlier than usual with live racing normally taking place three dates per week – Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The schedule moves to four days a week in December when Wednesdays are added. There will be one Sunday of racing on Sept. 28, Oklahoma Derby Day, with the first post at 3pm. The meet concludes on Saturday, Dec. 20, Springboard Mile Night, when racing will start at 5pm. All times are Central.
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Remington Park has provided more than $380 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. The 2025 Thoroughbred Season begins August 8. Must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.
