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Live Racing, Simulcasting and Gaming Resume on Monday; Triple Points Day
Monday, March 15, 2010
SIMULCASTING AND GAMING RESUME MONDAY
GATES OPEN FOR GAMING AT 10:00 A.M. (CDT)
GAMING REMAINS OPEN UNTIL 2:00 A.M. (CDT)ON TUESDAY
GATES OPEN FOR SIMULCASTING AT 11:00 A.M (CDT).
DOUBLE POINTS DAY FOR WINNERS CIRCLE MEMBERS
Simulcasting and Gaming resume on Monday. Gates open for Gaming at 10:00 a.m. and Gaming will remain open until 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday. Gates open for Simulcasting at 11:00 a.m. It is Double Points Day for all Winners Circle members.
Live Racing returns on Thursday. There are 10 races, first post time at 1:30 p.m. (CDT) The CLASSIX carryover pool stands at…
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Champion Lookin At Lucky Answers Questions With Rebel Score
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Watson, Pegram & Weitman's 2009 Two-Year-Old Champion Lookin At Lucky made a successful sophomore debut on Saturday, getting up in the final strides to defeat Chasing Dreams Racing 2008's Noble’s Promise by a head before the season's largest crowd of 36,298, in the Grade 2 $300,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn.
In the process, he secured his role among the early Kentucky Derby favorites by answering several questions in his first race on dirt and his first race in blinkers. Final time for the mile-and-a-sixteenth race was 1:43 over a fast track.
Breaking from post position two, Lookin at…
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No Such Word Continues Honeybee as a "Family" Affair
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Although they have now switched roles with Cindy serving as head trainer and Larry now her assistant, the training Joneses, along with owner-breeder Brereton C. Jones, continued the "Jones" dominance in earning their third consecutive $125,000 Honeybee Stakes triumph after No Such Word defeated Peter Callahan's heavily favored Beautician by 2 ½ lengths in the eighth race on the Saturday program at Oaklawn. With Larry Jones as trainer, Fox Hill Farm's ill-fated Eight Belles won the 2008 Honeybee. The couple returned with Cindy as owner and Larry as trainer to capture the 2009 edition with Just Jenda.
With owner-breeder…
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Sprinters Highlight Racing on Saturday
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Mary Grum's Cosmic, a beautifully-bred five-year-old who celebrated his first visit to Oaklawn win a dramatic come-from-behind win in the King Cotton Stakes, may head the field on Saturday in the c-featured $60,000 Hot Springs Stakes at six furlongs. The companion co-feature, the $60,000 Prima Donna, will put the spotlight on three-year-old fillies, with Grace Stable's undefeated Hot Dixie Chick a posssibility to make her three-year-old debit om the six panels event.
Cosmic heads a group of 19 nominations which reached the desk of Racing Secretary Pat Pope this week. The grey son of El Prado, out of 1995…
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Oaklawn Handicappers Hour Returns on Saturday
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Once again this year fans from around the country may tune into the Resort Racing Network, which has covered Oaklawn and national racing for over three decades.
The Resort Racing Network (KVRE, 92.9 FM) presents the Oaklawn Handicappers' Hour, a one-hour interactive call-in show, presented each Saturday through Breeders' Cup, Saturday, November 6. This week the show airs from 9:07-10:00 (CST). The Oaklawn Handicappers Hour is also available at the Oaklawn website. Simply click on the "Oaklawn Handicappers Hour" link on the left hand side ot the page. Oaklawn track announcer, Terry Wallace, will co-host the show this week…
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Rachel Alexandra, Zenyatta & 43 Others Nominate to Apple Blossom
Friday, March 12, 2010
As expected, 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra and two-time champion Zenyatta were chief among the 45 fillies and mares nominated to the 45th running of the $5 million Apple Blossom Invitational (G1) at Oaklawn Park on Friday, April 9.
Nominations closed March 10. Should the two superstars enter the 1 1/8th-mile event, Oaklawn Park will extend invitations to eight other nominees to face them in what would be the richest race ever run exclusively for fillies and mares.The connections of Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta have both expressed their desire to see the two horses meet in the…
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Lukas Stars May Shine in Three-Year-Old Stakes This Weekend
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas may be sitting in the catbird seat at Oaklawn this weekend as he send two of the stars of his heralded barn postwards as main contenders for honors in Saturday's $300,000 Rebel Stakes and $125,000 Honeybee Stakes. Both races are scheduled for a mile-and-a-sixteenth and should label the winners as among the elite from the three-year-old crop.
Dublin, a son of Afleet Alex and second place finisher in the recent Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn, will try to put himself square in Triple Crown consideration in the Rebel. The chestnut runner was flying…
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Win Willy, Freedom Star Capture Co-Features on Saturday Card
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Showing a powerful move not seen since his shocking upset over Old Fashioned in the 2009 Rebel, Jer-Mar Stable's Win Willy stayed off the pace, took command by mistretch and powered to a three-and-three-quarters score over Robert Yagos' Spotsgone in Saturday's $150,000 Razorback Handicap at a mile-and-a-sixteenth. The four-year-old son of Monarchos toured the distance in 1:43 4/5 over the fast track before a crowd of 19,292 gathered in near-perfect spring racing conditions.
Confidently handled by jockey Cliff Berry, the late-running gray responded to the removal of blinkers by trainer Mac Robertson and posted a win which should set…
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Oaklawn Purses to Increase Today
Friday, March 05, 2010
Once again bucking national economic trends, Oaklawn Park announced across-the-board purse increases of approximately $10,000 per day for the second half of its 54-day racing season.
The increase of $500 in all claiming races and $2,000 in all allowance and maiden special weight races – approximately five percent - goes into effect with the races of Thursday, March 4.
Oaklawn kicked off its 2010 season offering the highest purse structure in its 106-year history, featuring maiden special weight races at $36,000 and no purses lower than $15,000. This purse increase will take Oaklawn purses to yet another record…
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Arky-bred Comedero Easily Scores in Mountain Valley
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Peter Redekop B. C. Ltd.'s Comedero score one for the home folks when the three-year-old Arkansas-bred son of Posse easily romped to a four-and-a-half lengths victory on Saturday in the $60,000 Mountain Valley Stakes at Oaklawn Park. Comedero's win was accomplished before an enthusiastic crowd of 17,122, gathered in springlike weather.
The six furlong test for theee-year-olds included a field of nine and Comedero, trained by Mike Stidham, was sent postward as the 19-10 favorite, off a career mark that showed three wins in four starts and an undefeated record at the six furlongs distance. Comedero never left much…
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