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Summer Bird, Tim Ice Coming to Oaklawn for 2010 Live Meet Before Returning to New York
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Trainer Tim Ice said Classic candidate Summer Bird, the winner of the Belmont, Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes this summer, will depart New York and head for California on Monday. He is next expected to contest the Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, November 7.
Ice also said the colt would return to New York next season after the spring meeting at Oaklawn Park. “After the meet at Oaklawn Park, the plan is to come to New York,” said Ice, who previously has been based at Louisiana Downs. “I’d like to pick up some new owners. Right now,…
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Summer Bird, Pure Clan, Kodiak Kowboy Win Big Races at Belmont
Monday, October 05, 2009
Runners from Oaklawn Park once again performed with style, winning some of the most important races of the weekend and, perhaps, punching a Breeders' Cup ticket for each. In the case of Drs. K.K. and Devi Jayaraman's Summer Bird, the win in Saturday's $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup probably also put a lock on the 2009 Eclipse Award for the outstanding three-year-old colt or gelding.
Summer Bird, Lewis Lakin's Pure Clan and Fox Hill Farm and Vinery Stable's Kodiak Kowboy all put in winning performances over the sloppy and soft going at Belmont Park on Saturday afternoon and did…
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Bowker Appointed State Steward at Oaklawn for 2010
Thursday, September 24, 2009
From Arkansas State Racing Commission:
Stan Bowker, who has more than 40 years of race track experience, has accepted the position as State Steward for the Arkansas State Racing Commission, Director Ron Oliver announced today.
Bowker, who worked the 2009 Oaklawn Live Season as Association Steward, has served as Chairman of the Racing Officials Accreditation Program (R.O.A.P.), which accredits stewards and judges in racing, for the past four years. Bowker also served as Chairman of the Executive Director/Secretaries Committee for two years, and was also a member of the committee on model rules and drug testing.
“We’re…
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Dublin's Saratoga Win Makes Him Early Arkansas Derby Favorite
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Talk about a winning combination. Take Hall-of-Fame trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, add an offspring of former Oaklawn great, Afleet Alex, ridden by a former Oaklawn riding champion, Jamie Theriot, and you have the description of the win by the flashy colt, Dublin, in Monday's $300,000 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga.
Since losing his first race after stumbling at the start of a five furlong event at Churchill Downs in June, Dublin has done nothing wrong for his famous trainer. His next start was at six furlongs on August 1 at Saratoga and the pace-stalking son of Afleet Alex-Classy Mirage pulled…
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Rachel Alexandra Hangs on for Historic Win in Woodward
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Rachel Alexandra went to the lead at the start under jockey Calvin Borel, held the lead while setting a quick pace, then was all out to hold off the late-running Macho Again and score an historic win in Saturday's featured $750,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga.
Virtually cinching Horse-of-the-Year honors, the three-year old filly became the first three-year-old filly to beat older runners in a Grade 1-level stakes in New York State in over 100 years. But it did not come easily for the daughter of former Oaklawn Handicap winner, Medaglia d'Oro. As Calvin Borel went to the whip repeatedly…
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Oaklawn Stakes Schedule Mirrors Anticipated Purse Increases
Friday, September 04, 2009
Bucking recent industry trends, Oaklawn will offer a record of nearly $4.8 in stakes purses in 2010, officials announced Wednesday.
“We had a great live racing season, both on-track and off-track, and our Instant Racing division has performed better than ever,” Assistant General Manager of Racing David Longinotti said. “We opened the first phase of our expanding gaming facility in May and are on schedule to complete the second phase before Opening Day of the 2010 Live Season.”In all, Oaklawn will offer 30 stakes races with total purses of $4,775,000.
A total of 10 of the 30 events…
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Summer Bird Splashes to Big Travers Win
Friday, August 28, 2009
Summer Bird continued the dream year for Hot Springs residents, Drs. K.K. and Devi Jayaraman, as he took command in the upper stretch, then drew clear to score a dominating victory over a talented group of six rivals over a sloppy track at a mile-and-a-quarter in the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga. The three-year-old son of Birdstone previously won the Belmont Stakes, following his third in the Arkansas Derby, and has taken a giant step towards an Eclipse Award as the top three-year-old colt of the year.
With trainer Tim Ice doing the preparation and jockey Kent Desormeaux…
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Gayego, 2008 Arkansas Derby Winner, Returns With Saratoga Win on Monday
Monday, August 17, 2009
Gayego, winner of the 2008 Arkansas Derby returned to action with a workmanlike victory as the 3-5 favorite in Monday's third race at Saratoga. The Saeed bin Suroor charge did not break cleanly and raced in last early, but under a patient Alan Garcia, he gradually cruised into contention on the far turn. Gayego had to dig a bit to overhaul Digger in the stretch of the allowance race, eventually inching away to score by one length.
Now owned by Godolphin, Gayego completed six furlongs on the fast track in 1:09 1/5 to improve his career mark to 12-6-3-0,…
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Telling Scores Shocking Victory in Sword Dancer Invitational
Sunday, August 16, 2009
On a day full of upsets at Saratoga, Saturday's action was highlighted by the most shocking surprise of all in the $500,000 Sword Dancer Invitational, as the Alex & JoAnn Lieblong's 33-1 longshot Telling took over approaching the top of the stretch and held off Better Talk Now for his first stakes win.
A 5-year-old son of A.P. Indy, Telling had knocked on the door in top stakes company a number of times, including a second in the Stars and Stripes Handicap at Arlington but was making his first start in a top turf stakes at Saratoga and had…
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Honeybee Winner Just Jenda Airs in Monmouth Oaks
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Larry Jones had only earlier in the morning spoken with Oaklawn's Terry Wallace on the Oaklawn Handicapper's Hour, talking about how well Just Jenda (pictured here) was doing heading into Saturday's Monmouth Oaks.He couldn't have been happier with the results as his three-year-old filly, winner of the Honeybee at Oaklawn, drew off to a convincing four-and-a-quarter lengths score in the $200,000 Monmouth feature on Saturday afternoon.
If you drop Rachel Alexandra from consideration, an argument could be made that Jones might be able to handle any of the remainder of the three-year-old filly division with either Just Jenda or…
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