Officials with Balmoral Park and Maywood Park have announced the initial qualifying dates and entry times for the Chicago-area Standardbred tracks, as live racing is scheduled to resume in roughly two weeks.

Balmoral will host qualifying sessions on Wednesday, January 21 and Wednesday, January 28 at 11 a.m. (Central). Entries for these sessions will close on the Tuesday before each date at 10 a.m.

Maywood will host its qualifiers on Thursday, January 22 at 11 a.m. Entries will close Wednesday, January 21 at 10 a.m. When live racing resumes at Maywood on Thursday, January 29, qualifiers will be held prior to the live race cards every Thursday night.

Horses must show a satisfactory racing line within 45 days in order to race at both tracks.

The first draw will be Monday, January 26 at Maywood for the Thursday, January 29 card and the Friday, January 30 program.

Balmoral will draw on Wednesday, January 28 for the Saturday, January 31 card. Also, just a reminder that Balmoral will be dark for live racing on Super Bowl Sunday (February 1).

Tentative plans call for Maywood to conduct 10 race cards on Thursdays and 12 races on Fridays. Balmoral will go forth with 12-race programs on Saturdays and 10 races on Sunday nights.

(Balmoral/Maywood)