Indiana Grand Racing and Casino will offer 37 stakes worth a record $4.65 million in 2020. The stakes schedule is headlined by the $500,000 GIII Indiana Derby which will be run July 11. The Derby card will include six stakes worth over $1.1 million. The card will also feature the $200,000 GIII Indiana Oaks. The Warrior Veterans S. will be run as the Jonathan B. Schuster Memorial for the first time in 2020. The $100,000 race was renamed in honor of the former vice president and general manager at Indiana Grand who passed away in late 2019.
Indiana's richest turf races, the $200,000 Caesars S. and $200,000 Indiana Grand S. will be held Sept. 9. The track will introduce two Indiana-sired stakes races set for Oct. 17, the $150,000 Indiana Stallions Championship and the $150,000 Indiana Ladies Championship.
“We are anticipating another great season of racing at Indiana Grand,” said the track's director of racing Kevin Greely. “Our Indiana Derby has become one of the area's top races during the summer months and will be supported by some really nice stakes on the undercard, including the newly named Jonathan B. Schuster Memorial. Being able to add two stakes for our Indiana-sired program has also placed us in a position to offer the most purse money ever for our stakes races in the 18-year history of Indiana Grand.”
Indiana Grand's 120-day race meet begins Apr. 14 and concludes Nov. 18.
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