Remington Park is a horseracing facility in Oklahoma City with two tracks that feature thoroughbred and quarter horseracing. The track complex's size is approximately 370 acres and is set in a neighborhood on the northeast side of the city, in close proximity to a host of other attractions including museums.
Remington Park also has a casino that features 650 slot machines. The $35 million casino opened on November 21, 2005.
Remington Park also features a one-mile dirt track and a 7/8-mile turf course. The homestretch length of the dirt track is 1025 feet. It recently installed lighting to permit night racing.
Quarter horseracing is typically run in the spring months while thoroughbred racing is held in the fall. It offers a total of about 80 live racing days each year.
The Remington Park Derby is the track's annual flagship event. Some of the other major races held at Remington Park are the Edmund Handicap, Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. Memorial Breeders Cup and the Remington Futurity.
Remington Park History and Trivia
Remington Park's inaugural meet was held on September 1, 1988.
Remington Park averaged 11,130 in daily attendance and $1,088,683 in daily handle during its inaugural season.
The late Pat Steinberg topped the jockey standings at every Remington Park meet from 1989 through the spring of 1993, achieving 722 local victories over the course of a five-year period.
Don Pettinger is now the all-time leading jockey at Remington, with over 1,000 wins.
Donnie Von Hemmel is the track's all-time leading trainer with nearly 500 victories; about one out of every six of Von Hemmel's triumphs have come in stakes.