RUIDOSO DOWNS, N.M. \u2013 Ruidoso Downs will move the Quarter Horse Racing Triple Crown Series, the All-American Super Select Sale and its Hall of Fame to Texas in 2027.<\/p>\n
Ruidoso Downs Race Track General Manager Rick Baugh announced Thursday that owners Johnny and Jana Trotter agreed on a framework with Global Gaming Solutions for the move to Grand Prairie, Texas.<\/p>\n
The Triple Crown Series includes the $1 million Ruidoso Futurity, the $1 million Rainbow Futurity and the $3 million All-American Futurity.<\/p>\n
The move follows major setbacks at the racetrack in Ruidoso Downs. The All-American Futurity moved to Albuquerque for 2025 and 2026 after deadly flooding<\/a> in the Ruidoso area, and efforts to rehabilitate the racetrack have faced severe setbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing the fires and floods of recent years, we have taken a hard look at what comes next and evaluated every realistic path forward,\u201d Rick Baugh said. \u201cOur responsibility has always been to protect not just a place but a legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis was not an easy decision, but we believe it is the right one,\u201d Baugh said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUIDOSO DOWNS, N.M. \u2013 Ruidoso Downs will move the Quarter Horse Racing Triple Crown Series, the All-American Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-425647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}