Lone Star Park is a horse racing track and entertainment destination located 1⁄2 mile north of Interstate 30 on Belt Line Road in Grand Prairie, Texas. Lone Star Park has two live racing seasons every year; the spring Thoroughbred season generally runs from early April through mid-July, and the Fall Meeting of Champions generally runs from early September through mid-November.
In 1992 Grand Prairie voters approved a half-cent sales tax to assist in financial bonds to build a racetrack. Shortly thereafter, the city created a sports authority (the Grand Prairie Sports Facilities Development Corp.), which would own the track and lease it to a track operator.
Lone Star Park covers 315 acres (1.27 km2), and includes Bar & Book for simulcasting of racing worldwide. The track has a one-mile (1.6 km) dirt oval and a seven-furlongturf track, and has accommodations for 1,600 horses across 32 barns. The climate-controlled grandstand has a seating capacity of roughly 8,000 people.[1]
On Walker, Texas Ranger, the episode "Rainbow's End" (from Season Five) had one of the titular Texas Ranger's (Chuck Norris) cases taking place here. The episode centers on Walker, Trivette (Clarence Gilyard Jr.) and Alex (Sheree J. Wilson) building a case against a corrupt racehorse owner named James Lee Crown (Randolph Mantooth) for killing a rival racehorse and its owner and trainer (the latter of whom secretly working for Crown), and protecting the titular racehorse-- who is owned by one of Walker's close friends (John Beck) and his daughter (Lea Moreno)-- from becoming Crown's next victim.