Prairie Meadows

Prairie Meadows has announced the live horse racing dates for the 2025 season, which have been approved by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission. The racing season will run May 9 through Sept. 27.

Shesacinch won her second career start by five lengths. Petrov is 10-year-old son of Flatter who stands at Lake Hamilton Equine Center in Arkansas.

Calumet Farm's homebred grade 2 winner and first-crop sire Bravazo was represented by his first winner Sept. 23 at Prairie Meadows, where Excellent Empire took the ninth race, a six-furlong maiden special weight.

Prairie Meadows Racetrack & Casino is adding a day of live racing Sept. 26 to make up for the Thoroughbred races canceled due to a July 15 storm.

Lu's Time held on by a nose to break her maiden in the ninth race at Prairie Meadows Aug. 25 to become the first winner for freshman sire Timeline.

Heat forces Prairie Meadows to push back first post times Aug. 25 and 26.

Comments made at last weekend's National HBPA Conference at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa, may have contained hints about the next direction of multiple legal disputes concerning the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act.

The track's assessment fee this year is $1,187,942 before credits for commission duties done on behalf of HISA are factored into the equation. But owners in Iowa disagree with both the fee and HISA's ability to impose penalties.

A panel examing "Establishing No-Effect Thresholds and the Importance for the Industry" was featured on the third day of the National HBPA conference July 26 at Prairie Meadows.

The second day of the National HBPA Conference at Prairie Meadows focused on computer-assisted wagering's escalating presence in racetrack pools and the emergence of horse racing as a fixed-odds betting product on sportsbooks.