Website: Meeting: Zia Park offers both thoroughbred and quarter horse racing during a mixed meet in the fall, usually between late September and late December. Zia Park will host the richest day of state-bred stakes races in the country on New Mexico Cup Day on November 1 st with 12 stakes races for New Mexico-bred Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses totaling more than $2 million in purses.Address: 3901 W Millen Dr, Hobbs, NM 88240 Our Mondays and Tuesday racing schedule garnered solid support from our simulcast customers across the nation and we plan to continue to build on that segment of our program,” said Hutton. We are focused on creating value to our on track and simulcast patrons with competitive race cards. “We are very grateful by the reception from owners and trainers from all over the country and even Canada getting on board for our big races and hope to continue to put Zia Park in the national spotlight. “We are excited this year based upon the progressive successes we have experienced the last couple of years here at Zia,” said Director of Racing Operations Fred Hutton. Zia Park’s sister racetrack, Penn National, will also hold its Thanksgiving Eve Racing Festival stakes races on the same night as part of the challenge. The Zia Park Oaks, Zia Park Derby, Zia Park Championship, and Zia Park Distaff will be the final races in the $5 million Penn Gaming Racing Challenge launched in 2014 by parent company Penn National Gaming. The 2014 Land of Enchantment Day set the second highest single-day handle record at Zia Park of $1.275 million, behind only the inaugural running in 2013. The afternoon will include two Quarter Horse races as well-the 440-yard, $150,000 Grade 1 Zia Park Quarter Horse Championship and the 400-yard, $140,000 Restricted Grade 1 New Mexico Quarter Horse Fillies and Mares Championship. The card will also feature the $200,000 Zia Park Derby for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles, the $150,000 Zia Park Championship for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles, the $100,000 (up from $75,000) Zia Park Distaff for fillies and mares at 6 furlongs, the $140,000 Eddy County Stakes for 2-year-old New Mexico breds at one mile and the newly created $100,000 Zia Park Sprint for 3 year olds and up contested at 6 furlongs.

The richest event of that afternoon will be the third running of the $300,000 Zia Park Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles, won by the Larry Jones trained Cassatt in 2014.

Land of Enchantment Day on Thanksgiving Eve will feature eight stakes races worth a total of more than $1.2 million.

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