{"id":413825,"date":"2025-09-10T18:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413825\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:44:15","slug":"american-quarter-horse-association-racing-season-returns-to-claremore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413825\/","title":{"rendered":"American Quarter Horse Association racing season returns to Claremore | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW218346011 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">CLAREMORE, Okla. \u2014 The fall American Quarter Horse Association racing season has officially begun in Claremore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW218346011 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The 2025 Will Rogers Downs racing schedule is public and features 28 AQHA, Appaloosa, and Paint racing days through November 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Will Rogers Downs.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1440\" height=\"600\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68c1bf3b7a9b5.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"83\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Will Rogers Downs<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW218346011 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThe 2025 season marks a fresh start, and we\u2019re excited to move forward with the renewed energy we\u2019re feeling from the racing community,\u201d said John Liews, Racing Secretary and Track Announcer for the Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                Will Rogers Downs 2025 Racing Calendar<\/p>\n<p>                                Will Rogers Downs<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW218346011 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Races post at 1 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays currently and will begin to post at 1 p.m. on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays beginning on September 21. Final races will be posted at noon in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW218346011 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The new season features Mystery Futurity stakes, which showcase the top two-year-old Quarter Horses going 350 yards, the AQHA Juvenile Challenge Final, which includes a 350-yard race for two-year-olds and the AQHA Distance Challenge and AQHA Distaff Challenge finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW218346011 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cWe\u2019re now black up to full barn capacity of over 600 stalls and have seen much interest from the horsemen in the way of stall applications and completed hair tests,\u201d said Lies. \u201cThe AQHA Challenge races and B;ack Gold finals figure to be amongst the highlights of this meet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW218346011 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">For more information and for a full schedule of this season, click <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW218346011 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cherokeecasino.com\/will-rogers-downs\/amenities\/races\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLAREMORE, Okla. \u2014 The fall American Quarter Horse Association racing season has officially begun in Claremore.\u00a0 The 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[142186,142185,142183,142184,142187,18607,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-american-quarter-horse-association","9":"tag-appaloosa","10":"tag-claremore","11":"tag-downs-racing","12":"tag-john-liews","13":"tag-oklahoma","14":"tag-racing","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115181483742251924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}