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Beulah Park Opens Fall Meet Saturday
September 22, 2005
Grove City, Ohio –
Beulah Park, central Ohio’s only thoroughbred race track, is set to throw
open the gates for its fall meeting this Saturday afternoon.
The 2005 fall season at
Beulah Park consists of 68 live days and will mark the 82nd year of the
sport of kings. The fall season will run through Wednesday December 21.
The first two weeks of the
meeting will offer live racing four days a week—Wednesday through Saturday.
Beginning the third week of
the season, racing moves to a five-day a week format with live thoroughbred
programs Tuesday through Saturday. Beulah Park will team up with Thistledown
for combined “7 & 7” programs everyday but Tuesday.
Post times are 1:15 p.m.
through October 29. From there, the first race will begin at 12:25 p.m. on
all 7 & 7 days and 12:55 p.m. on Tuesdays.
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Highlighting the ’05 fall
session is the Best of Ohio day slated for Saturday October 1 highlighting
the best thoroughbreds in the State. A special Columbus Day program will be
run Monday October 10 featuring the Ohio Quarter Horse Congress trials.
The 2005 Breeders’ Cup takes
the spotlight Saturday October 29 when it will be broadcast live from
Belmont Park in New York.
Both leading trainer Reid
Gross and leading jockey Edgar Paucar from the ’05 spring will be back to
defend their respective titles.
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“We are expecting a great
fall season,” said Beulah Park Executive Vice President and General Manager
Mike Weiss. “We have just completed a total re-surfacing of our race track
and we are getting lots of praise from incoming horsemen on the new
surface.”
General parking is $1, while
general admission remains at $2 with no additional charge for Clubhouse
seating. Simulcast wagering is conducted at Beulah Park seven days a week.
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