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 2003 cards averaged $3,260 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.
April 2003
10 races · charted → 07 Monday
12 races → 08 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 14 Monday
13 races · charted →
May 2003
10 races · charted → 05 Monday
11 races → 06 Tuesday
11 races · charted → 12 Monday
12 races · charted → 17 Saturday
8 races · charted → 19 Monday
12 races · charted → 24 Saturday
9 races · charted → 26 Monday
9 races · charted → 31 Saturday
8 races · charted →
June 2003
11 races → 09 Monday
10 races · charted → 10 Tuesday
11 races · charted → 14 Saturday
9 races · charted → 16 Monday
12 races → 17 Tuesday
13 races · charted → 21 Saturday
8 races →
July 2003
9 races · charted → 12 Saturday
9 races · charted → 14 Monday
10 races · charted → 19 Saturday
9 races · charted → 21 Monday
12 races · charted → 26 Saturday
11 races · charted → 28 Monday
11 races · charted →
August 2003
September 2003
11 races · charted → 02 Tuesday
12 races → 06 Saturday
10 races · charted → 08 Monday
11 races · charted → 15 Monday
12 races → 16 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 20 Saturday
10 races → 22 Monday
12 races · charted → 23 Tuesday
11 races → 27 Saturday
10 races → 29 Monday
12 races · charted → 30 Tuesday
12 races →
October 2003
10 races · charted → 06 Monday
11 races · charted → 11 Saturday
11 races → 14 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 25 Saturday
11 races →
November 2003
11 races · charted → 03 Monday
12 races → 04 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 08 Saturday
11 races · charted → 10 Monday
12 races · charted → 11 Tuesday
11 races · charted → 17 Monday
11 races · charted → 18 Tuesday
11 races · charted → 24 Monday
10 races · charted → 25 Tuesday
11 races · charted →
December 2003
Questions about this season
Which months did racing run in 2003?
April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. Only months with a surviving document appear.
Why are some 2003 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 2003?
57 race days, carrying 614 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 2003 record?
42 of the 57 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.