Races At Sam Houston
The race track hosts two live race meets annually. Thoroughbred horse racing runs from late January till early March. American Quarter Horse races are held from the beginning of March through the middle of May. The rest of the year the park is open for simulcast racing around the United States.
Among many others, these are the races Sam Houston Race Park holds each year along with their purses:
- The $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic (inaugurated in 2013)
- The Grade III $200,000 Connally Breeders’ Cup Turf
- The $150,000 MAXXAM Gold Cup
- The $75,000 Martanza Stakes
- The $50,000 Jersey Lilly Stakes
- The $50,000 Sam Houston Turf Sprint Cup
- The $45,000 Mission Stakes
- The $45,000 Fort Bend Country Stakes
- The $45,000 Spring Stakes
- The $45,000 Sam Houston Oaks
- The $45,000 Texas Heritage Stakes
- The $45,000 Tomball Stakes
- The $45,000 Jersey Village Stakes
- The $29,250 Allen's Landing Stakes
- The $25,000 Space City Stakes
- The $25,000 Buffalo Bayou Stakes
- The $25,000 Black Gold Stakes
- The $25,000 Texans Stakes
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