(July 10, 2005) - Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie will conclude its ninth Spring Thoroughbred Season in style this week with three weekend stakes races and a sensational post-race concert on Saturday by three of the hottest acts on the Texas country music scene: Charlie Robison, Jack Ingram and The Randy Rogers Band. Plus, Saturday will double as Fan Appreciation Day with plenty of prize drawings, and Sunday's closing day program will honor the meet's best horses between races throughout the day.

Only five days remain at Lone Star's 67-day meet. The first live race on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night is 6:35 p.m. CT. Weekend action will begin at 1:35 p.m. CT.

A pair of $75,000, six-furlong stakes for juveniles will be staged Saturday: the Middleground Breeders' Cup for colts and geldings and the Silver Spur Breeders' Cup for fillies. Sunday's swansong is headed by the $75,000 Bob Johnson Memorial, a one-mile test for 3-year-olds and up that is expected to lure Grade III Texas Mile winner High Strike Zone from the Amos Laborde barn.

The Middleground could feature a showdown between $135,400 TTA Sales Futurity winner Forrest G. and undefeated Don't Tell Mommy, the Steve Asmussen-trained Capote colt who won the $40,000 Pioneer at Louisiana Downs on June 26 by 5 ¾ lengths.

Asmussen also has a strong contender for the Silver Spur in Heiligbrodt Racing Stable's Yaddo Cat. The Forest Wildcat filly was a 3 ¼-length debut winner at the prestigious Keeneland Spring Meet in April.

Charlie Robison, Jack Ingram, Randy Rogers Band Concert This Saturday After Races

Last month, Lone Star Park hosted a post-race concert by popular country rockers Cross Canadian Ragweed that lured 24,660 to the Grand Prairie racetrack. This Saturday, they'll close the racing season with another anticipated show featuring the music of Charlie Robison, Jack Ingram and The Randy Rogers Band.

The first of 11 live races Saturday is 1:35 p.m. and the concert, presented by Miller Lite, will begin after the final race at approximately 6:30 p.m. The music will continue well into the summer night. Grandstand gates will open at 11:30 a.m. General admission is just $3 until 5 p.m. and $15 thereafter.

Robison, currently touring in support of his popular fifth release Good Times, will headline the three-band set. Good Times features the hit "El Cerrito Place," a duet with The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines (Robison's wife Emily is also a member of The Dixie Chicks).

Jack Ingram, a Texas mainstay since his self-titled 1993 release, is currently working on a new studio album after releasing three recordings in 2004: Acoustic Motel, Young Man and Happy, Happy...Live at Gruene Hall. He is also the host of "Jack's Tracks," which airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on 99.5 FM The Wolf.

The Randy Rogers Band is supporting their third release Rollercoaster, which received national kudos by USA Today saying "This Texas band's guitars rock with an authority their Nashville counterparts rarely manage, but the songs on this Radney Foster-produced disc are pure country." Their current song on heavy rotation is "Tonight's Not The Night."

The stage for the concert will be situated outdoors just outside the racing surface in front of the sun-shaded Courtyard of Champions. The lawn area is first come, first served, and there is limited patio table seating in the Courtyard. Blankets and folding chairs are permitted outdoors.

Saturday Doubles As Fan Appreciation Day

In addition to 11-live races and a post-race concert by Charlie Robison, Jack Ingram and The Randy Rogers Band, Saturday will double as Fan Appreciation Day at Lone Star Park. As customers pass through admission gates, they'll be given an entry blank for cash and prize drawings throughout the day.

Prizes include stays in suites at Embassy Suites Hotel and the Crown Plaza Suites, steaks from Winn Meat Company and a year's supply of Dr Pepper.

Entry blanks must be turned in by 2 p.m. to be included in the drawings.

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