Pennsylvania Derby Returns With $1 Million Purse

2008 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park

The 2008 Breeders' Cup, thoroughbred racing's most prestigious event, consisting of 14 Breeders' Cup races and $25.5 million in purses, will be held on October 24-25, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

But before that, Belmont Stakes winner Da'Tara is going to race in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course while Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown will be racing in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

Posted on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

(AP) — The Pennsylvania Derby will be worth $1 million when it returns to Philadelphia Park on Labor Day after a year off.

The Sept. 3 race was canceled last year to allow conversion of some facilities to a slot machine casino. In 2005, it was run for a purse of $750,000.

Track management is also seeking to boost the race from Grade II to Grade I when the next evaluation is made by the North American Graded Stakes Committee.

The Fitz Dixon Cotillion Handicap has also been moved up from its early October date to Sept. 22. The race for 3-year-old fillies can now serve as a prep for the $2 million Breeders Cup Distaff slated for Oct. 27 at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J.

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