located at PNE
Vancouver, BC
Phone: (604) 254-1631
Fax: (604) 251-0411
Toll-free: 1 (800) 677-7702
URL: www.hastingspark.com
Hastings Racecourse has been capturing the imagination of Vancouverites
and visitors alike for 116 years. Featuring live thoroughbred racing and
simulcast racing from many of the world’s most prestigious tracks,
Hastings is a legendary location with spectacular mountain and
waterfront racing views. Bet your favourites, win, place, show, exactor,
triactor, daily double, etc.
$2.7 MILLION IN HASTINGS STAKES PURSES SET THE TONE FOR 2008 RACING
SEASON
Vancouver, B.C. (Jan. 8/08) – Hastings Racecourse General
Manager Raj Mutti has announced that 40 stakes races with purses
totaling $2.7 million will highlight the 68-day thoroughbred racing
season in 2008. “We’re returning all Stakes to a $50,000 minimum purse
and couldn’t be more pleased,” said Mutti, who was promoted to GM last
month. “There’s even been a $50,000 stakes races added – the Hastings
Speed – for 3-year-olds & up on Aug. 30.”
While the 2008 thoroughbred season launches on Saturday, April
26, the initial stakes race will be the $50,000 George Royal on
Saturday, May 3, the same day as the 134th running of the
Kentucky Derby. The first of ten at $100,000 or over is the Lieutenant
Governors on Canada Day, Tuesday, July 1.
BC Cup Day on Monday, August 4th will once again highlight BC
racings richest day with over $450,000 in purses.
Championship Weekend at Hastings is traditionally the biggest
weekend, headlined by the $250,000 BC Derby on September 21st
and the BC Oaks with a purse of $125,000 will be run on September 20th.
The Friday afternoon cards (1st race 2:25pm) that
were increasingly popular last season will again be staged in July and
August, six in total. There are five Monday matinee attractions (May 19,
June 30, Aug. 4, Sept. 1 and Oct. 13 with the balance of the schedule
being 1:25 p.m. starts on 28 Saturdays and 28 Sundays.
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