Cumberland Run race dates and the autumn meet
The 2026 meet runs twelve days on a Sunday, Monday and Tuesday rotation from October 18 to November 10, almost the same pattern as 2025. The Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation sets these race dates each winter alongside those for Oak Grove and The Red Mile, and the three tracks together carried 85 harness programs in 2026.
Cumberland Run is the last stop on the state’s harness racing circuit. Oak Grove opens the season in March, The Red Mile takes over in late summer and runs its Grand Circuit into October, and Corbin finishes it off. The fall Kentucky Sire Stakes series is a feature of the Corbin meet; in 2025 the pacer Captain Arturovico swept it.
Harness racing on a five-eighths-mile track
The oval measures five-eighths of a mile, a common size for standardbred racing, where horses pull drivers in two-wheeled sulkies at either a trot or a pace. Fields start behind a mobile gate. At its 2023 opening the track promised overnight purses averaging $110,000 a day, with minimum purses of $8,000 and tops of $20,000.
That money made Cumberland Run competitive with other Midwestern harness tracks from its first season. Hall of Fame driver David Miller won three races on the opening card, including the first race and two $30,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes, and Governor Andy Beshear joined the winners’ circle. For newcomers, the pari-mutuel betting guide explains win, place and exotic tickets.
The Mint Gaming Hall Cumberland Run
The gaming room at the track opened in late July 2023, ahead of live racing. It is compact, with a small group of historical horse racing machines, plus a restaurant, a full bar and DraftKings Sportsbook. Simulcast wagering on other tracks runs all year, and the hall keeps daily hours of 10 a.m. to midnight.
Like every Kentucky gaming room, the floor admits guests aged 21 and over, and there are no live table games. The Mint Rewards card and app work at the track and at the group’s other halls. Problem gambling help is available from the national 1-800-GAMBLER line, which the property lists on its own pages.
The Williamsburg satellite hall
Most of the group’s machines in the region sit at The Mint Gaming Hall Cumberland, right off Exit 11 on Interstate 75 in Williamsburg. It opened on September 1, 2022. Its revenue funds purses for Cumberland Run harness racing, much as the Bowling Green hall supports Kentucky Downs. Its machines are historical horse racing games, as in Corbin.
The Williamsburg hall houses The Backyard Race & Sports Grill, which serves burgers, salads and pasta, and Midnight Bourbon, a cocktail bar mid-floor. It also has DraftKings sports betting, year-round simulcast and weekly live music. At opening it followed the Mint pattern of a 9 a.m. start, running around the clock from Thursday to early Monday.
Visiting Corbin and getting there
The track sits on a hill at 777 Winners Lane, off Interstate 75, roughly thirty minutes from London, Kentucky. Corbin is unusual in spanning three counties: Knox, Whitley and Laurel. On race days the outdoor trackside area is open to visitors of every age, and the opening day in 2023 drew families with a carnival of rides and games.
Before Cumberland Run opened, eastern Kentucky had gone without live racing since Thunder Ridge, a harness track in Prestonsburg about 114 miles away, closed in 2018. During 2021 and 2022 the license’s race dates were run at The Red Mile while construction went on, which is why Cumberland Run’s early results appear under Lexington.
How Cumberland Run fits Kentucky racing
The track exists because of the 2021 law that confirmed historical horse racing as pari-mutuel wagering in Kentucky, after a 2020 court ruling had thrown the machines into doubt. Legislators at the opening called it the final piece of a revived standardbred circuit. The full list of tracks and halls is on the Kentucky page, including Kentucky Downs.