Kempton wins the $1,000,000 Heritage Place Futurity in 2024 at Remington Park. The richest race in Oklahoma will once again headline the Champions Night program at Remington Park in May 31, 2025.

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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—JANUARY 8, 2025–The 2025 Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season begins Thursday, March 6. The 50-date session will bring the top horses from around the country to battle for stakes purses estimated at nearly $5.4 million.

The coffers on Champions Night, the final evening of the season on Saturday, May 31 will top $2 million with a program of 12 stakes races. The richest event on Champions Night, and for the season, is the Grade 1, $1,000,000 (estimated) Heritage Place Futurity.

The 2024 Heritage Place Futurity race is for 2-year-olds racing 350 yards. Kempton, the Champion 2-year-old at Remington Park by virtue of an undefeated season and winning the 2024 Heritage Place Futurity, ended the year as the top juvenile Quarter Horse colt in racing with $639,903 earned.

The Kiss My Hocks colt, out of the Corona Cartel mare Charming Cartel, won $454,364 of that in the Heritage Place. He was owned by Mariano Lozano-Cantu, trained by James Gonzalez III, and ridden to victory by James Flores.

Jess Good Wine, the 2024 Remington Park Horse of the Meet, won all three stakes races he ran in including the top race for older horses – the Grade 1, $256,400 Debbie Schauf Remington Park Championship.

The race will also be featured on Champions Night. Jess Good Wine, who was a 4-year-old Oklahoma-bred son of Good Reason SA, out of the Mr Jess Perry mare Mr Perrys Wine, was second nationally in money earnings last year at $473,930, behind Empressum ($504,750) who won the 2021 Remington Park Derby during his time locally.

Jess Good Wine is owned by Guns Up Racing and was ridden at Remington Park by Bryan Candanosa. The horse went on to win the Grade 1 All American Gold Cup Stakes at the Downs at Albuquerque on Sept. 2 and then ran second to Empressum in the top race annually for older horses, the Grade 1, $800,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos in California.

The stakes schedule this year includes 11 Grade 1 open company events. That number jumps to 14 when including the three Grade 1 restricted races of the Remington Park Futurity, Derby and Dee Raper Sooner State Stakes take place on Saturday, April 19.

That trio of stakes races are limited to Oklahoma-breds but still have powerful purses. The Remington Park Futurity is at $800,000 (estimated) with the Remington Park Derby at $150,000 (estimated) and the Dee Raper Sooner State worth $100,000.

The entire stakes schedule (purses are estimated if not guaranteed) for the spring season at Remington Park:

Sunday, March 9
G2, $50,000 SLM Big Daddy, 3 and older, 550 yards
G2-R, $75,000 Mighty Deck Three, 3 and older, 250 yards (OK)

Saturday, March 15
G2 $50,000 Eastex, 3 and older, 350 yards
G2 $50,000 Decketta, 3 and older, fillies and mares, 350 yards

Saturday, March 22
G1, $175,000 (est.) Oklahoma Paint & Appaloosa Futurity, 2-year-olds, 300 yards $35,000 Oklahoma Paint & Appaloosa Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 300 yards
G2, $20,000 Paul Harber Memorial, Paints & Appaloosas, 3 and older, 300 yards
G3, $230,000 (est.) Oklahoma Derby, 3-year-olds, 350 yards
G2, $500,000 (est.) Oklahoma Futurity, 2-year-olds, 300 yards
$50,000 Oklahoma Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 300 yards

Saturday, March 29
G2, $30,000 AQHA Distance Challenge, 3 and older, 870 yards
G2, $60,000 Bank of America Remington Park Challenge, 3 and older, 440 yards

Sunday, April 6
G2-R, $75,000 Mr Jet Moore, 3 and older, 350 yards (OK)

Saturday, April 19
G1-R, $150,000 (est.) Remington Park Derby, 3-year-olds, 400 yards (OK)
G1-R, $800,000 (est.) Remington Park Futurity, 2-year-olds, 330 yards (OK)
G2, $50,000 Bob Moore Memorial, 3 and older, 300 yards
G2, $75,000 Easy Date, 3 and older, fillies and mares, 350 yards $100,000 Remington Park Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 330 yards (OK)
G3-R, $75,000 Laico Bird, 2-year-olds, 330 yards (OK)
G3-R, $75,000 Mr Master Bug, 3-year-olds, 350 yards (OK)
G1-R, $100,000 Dee Raper Sooner State, 3 and older, 400 yards (OK) $175,000 (est.) Remington Park Oaks, 3-year-olds, fillies, 400 yards (OK)

Friday, April 25
G1, $150,000 (est.) American Paint Classic Futurity, 2-year-olds, Paints, 330 yards
$20,000 Victoria Ennis Memorial, 2-year-olds, Paints & Appaloosas, 330 yards

Saturday, May 3
G2, $50,000 Pauls Valley, 3 and older, 870 yards
G1, $100,000 Leo, 3 and older, 400 yards

Saturday, May 10
G1, $20,000 Mister Lewie Memorial, 3 and older, Paints & Appaloosas, 400 yards

Friday, May 30
$100,000 Heritage Place Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 350 yards

Saturday, May 31 (Champions Night)
G1, $1,000,000 (est.) Heritage Place Futurity, 2-year-olds, 350 yards
G2, $200,000 (est.) Heritage Place Derby, 3-year-olds, 400 yards
G1, $250,000 Debbie Schauf Remington Park Championship, 3 and older, 440 yards
G2, $275,000 (est.) Heritage Place Oaks, 3-year-olds, fillies, 400 yards
G1, $100,000 Junos Request, 3 and older, fillies and mares, 400 yards
G1, $250,000 (est.) Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Futurity, 2-year-olds, 350 yards
G1, $20,000 Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Stakes, 3-year-olds, 350 yards
G1, $50,000 Remington Park Distance Championship, 3 and older, 870 yards
G3-R, 75,000 Easy Jet, 2-year-olds, 350 yards (OK)
G3-R, $50,000 Jack Brooks Stakes, 3-year-olds, 350 yards (OK)
G3-R, $75,000 FL Lady Bug, 2-year-olds, fillies, 350 yards (OK)
G3-R, $75,000 Boyd Morris Memorial, 3 and older, 400 yards (OK)

R = Restricted race; OK = Oklahoma-bred race; Est. = Estimated purse

The normal weekly schedule for the Remington Park season is Thursday through Sunday. The first post time nightly is 6 p.m., with Sunday action underway at 4 p.m. Three dates have special first post times: Saturday, May 3 at Noon (Kentucky Derby Day), Saturday, May 17 at Noon (Preakness Stakes Day), and Saturday, May 31 at 5 p.m. (Champions Night).

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Remington Park has provided more than $374 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 American Quarter Horse Season will begin on March 6. Must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.