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Lone Star Park to host 2004 Breeders' Cup
Wednesday April 02, 2003LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) The 2004 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships were awarded Wednesday to Lone Star Park.
Selection of the track in Grand Prairie, Texas, will put the event in the Southwest for the first time. The eight races with purses and awards totaling $13 million will be contested Oct. 30.
``The Dallas-Fort Worth area is one of the nation's great sports markets, and Lone Star Park has done an excellent job of establishing first-class racing there,'' said Breeders' Cup president D. G. Van Clief Jr.
The 20th running of the Breeders' Cup is scheduled for Oct. 25, 2003, at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.
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