HRTV to air Red Mile races beginnng Thursday

Harness racing aficionados will enjoy some of the best Standardbred racing action during the 2007 campaign when HorseRacing TV (HRTV) presents live coverage of The Red Mile's summer/fall racing session, when the Lexington, Ky. track opens its doors, beginning on Thursday.

The 33-day session from the historic facility will begin with a three-day racing week (Thursday, Sunday and Monday) through the early portion of the meeting. Post time is slated for 6:30 p.m.(ET)/3:30 p.m.(PT). From Sept. 25 through closing day, Oct. 6, post time moves to 12:30 p.m. (ET)/9:30 a.m.(PT).

When racing expands to four days in mid-September and then five days later in the month and into early October, the stakes schedule reaches a fever pitch. The final two weeks are loaded with stakes races, and the last two days of the meeting--Friday, Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 6--present a fitting climax to the fall stand. The $300,000 Kentucky Filly Futurity for the best sophomore trotting fillies tops the Oct. 5 card.

The highlight of the meeting comes on closing day when the top 3-year-old trotting colts vie in the $700,000 Kentucky Futurity, the final leg of trotting's Triple Crown. Also dotting the stakes-ladened card is the $700,000 Tattersalls Pace for sophomore pacing colts. (HRTV)

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