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 2004 cards averaged $3,120 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 2004
0 races → 05 Monday
12 races · charted → 06 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 10 Saturday
10 races · charted → 13 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 17 Saturday
10 races · charted → 19 Monday
12 races · charted → 20 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 24 Saturday
5 races →
May 2004
9 races · charted → 04 Tuesday
13 races → 08 Saturday
0 races → 11 Tuesday
0 races → 15 Saturday
0 races → 22 Saturday
0 races → 29 Saturday
3 races →
June 2004
July 2004
August 2004
13 races · charted → 07 Saturday
9 races · charted → 10 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 14 Saturday
0 races → 17 Tuesday
11 races · charted →
September 2004
6 races · charted → 07 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 11 Saturday
10 races · charted → 13 Monday
12 races → 14 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 18 Saturday
10 races → 21 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 25 Saturday
11 races · charted → 27 Monday
11 races · charted → 28 Tuesday
11 races · charted →
October 2004
2 races → 09 Saturday
8 races · charted → 11 Monday
12 races · charted · payouts → 12 Tuesday
12 races · charted → 16 Saturday
11 races · charted · payouts → 18 Monday
12 races · charted · payouts → 19 Tuesday
12 races · charted · payouts → 23 Saturday
3 races → 25 Monday
12 races · charted → 30 Saturday
2 races →
November 2004
Questions about this season
How complete is the 2004 record?
28 of the 51 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 2004?
April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November. Only months with a surviving document appear.
Why are some 2004 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 2004?
51 race days, carrying 393 races between them. The meeting ran spring to autumn, so a season is a scatter of afternoons rather than a continuous block.