Season Summary
Plainridge ran a spring-to-autumn meeting, so a season reads as a calendar of scattered afternoons rather than a continuous run. Purses across the surviving 2002 cards averaged $3,472 a race, which places the meeting in the regional class structure rather than the stakes tier.
Each date opens the full card for that afternoon. Where the official chart survives you get finishing positions, quarter-by-quarter running lines, winning times and closing odds; where only the entry sheet survives you get the field as drawn, with drivers, trainers and seasonal best miles.
May 2002
13 races · charted → 07 Tuesday
10 races · charted → 10 Friday
7 races → 11 Saturday
7 races · charted → 13 Monday
12 races · charted → 14 Tuesday
10 races · charted → 18 Saturday
8 races · charted → 20 Monday
14 races · charted → 25 Saturday
8 races → 27 Monday
10 races →
June 2002
July 2002
12 races → 09 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 13 Saturday
9 races · charted → 16 Tuesday
12 races →
August 2002
September 2002
14 races · charted → 03 Tuesday
13 races · charted → 07 Saturday
7 races → 09 Monday
12 races · charted → 10 Tuesday
12 races → 14 Saturday
9 races → 17 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 23 Monday
12 races · charted → 24 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 28 Saturday
9 races → 30 Monday
11 races · charted →
October 2002
Questions about this season
Why are some 2002 race days missing?
Because the record is assembled from the documents that survive, not from a fixture list. Where a card was held but neither its programme nor its chart came through, that date has no page.
How many race days survive from 2002?
32 race days, carrying 342 races between them. The meeting ran spring to autumn, so a season is a scatter of afternoons rather than a continuous block.
How complete is the 2002 record?
19 of the 32 recovered days carry at least one fully charted race. The rest survive as entry sheets, which show the field as it was drawn but not the result.
Which months did racing run in 2002?
May, June, July, August, September and October. Only months with a surviving document appear.