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Simulcasting and Gaming Resumes on Friday; Del Mar Pick-Six Carryover at $103,938
Friday, July 30, 2010
GAMING AND SIMULCASTING RESUME ON FRIDAY
GATES OPEN FOR GAMING AT 10:00 A.M. AND SIMULCASTING AT 11:00 A.M.
GAMING REMAINS OPEN UNTIL 4:00 A.M. ON SATURDAY
FRIDAY IS SURF AND TURF NIGHT AT LAGNIAPPE'S BUFFET
DEL MAR PICK-SIX CARRYOVER POOL AT $103,938
Friday is Surf and Turf Night at Lagniappe's Buffet in the Gaming Center.
Twin Quin will resume on Friday. Players will compete for $1,588 plus all the day's entry fees.
The Simulcast schedule for Friday includes Monmouth, Woodbine, Calder, Ellis Park, Louisiana Downs, Saratoga, Arlington, Hoosier Park, Evangeline Downs, Mountaineer, Del Mar, Prairie Meadows,…
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Oaklawn Handicappers Hour Returns on Saturday; Steve Haskin of Bloodhorse.com, Special Guest
Wednesday, July 28, 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 Labor Day weekend. This week, Saturday, July 31, the broadcast airs at its normal air time of 9:07-10:00 a.m. 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,…
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Lookin At Lucky, Super Saver Carry Oaklawn Banner in Sunday's Haskell
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Only a year ago the big story for the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth was that Calvin Borel had taken the mount on Fantasy and Kentucky Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra over Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird. When Calvin and his mount, the eventual Horse-of-the-Year, Rachel Alexandra, beat her male rivals in the mile-and-an-eighth feature on that day, it went a long way to her gaining the championship title.
This year's Haskell, on Sunday, August 1, give some others with Oaklawn in their backgrounds a chance to make the big headlines as the end of the day. Featured in the…
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Rachel Alexandra Returns With Style in Lady's Secret at Monmouth
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Rachel Alexandra (in picture winning the 2009 Fantasy Stakes), who dazzled fans at Monmouth Park just a year ago when she beat the best of the three-year-old males to win the Haskell, returned to the Oceanport track on Saturday afternoon and did not disappoint the nearly 13,000 fans who showed up to see the reigning Horse of the Year dominate her rivals in the $400,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes.
Wagering on the card totaled $11,421,794, a new record for Monmouth Park outside of a Breeders’ Cup or Haskell Day in track history. The previous mark of $9,787,620 was set on…
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Oaklawn Performers Shine at Canterbury's Claiming Crown
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
In one of the most exciting finishes of the late season, Chance and a Half got up in the final jump to top Humble Smarty (inside in the photo) in the Nodouble Breeders' Stakes on March 28. On Saturday Humble Smarty made up for that loss in a big way as he stormed from just off the pace to take a three-quarters lengths victory in the Claiming Crown Rapid Transit Stakes at Canterbury Park. The Rapid Transit was one of a series of events offered for claiming horses in the annual program staged at the Minnesota track.
Humble Smarty…
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Borel Wins Another ESPY Award
Monday, July 19, 2010
Jockey Calvin Borel, two-time Oaklawn riding champion and the riding winner of three of the last four runnings of the Kentucky Derby, was honored July 14 with an ESPY Award for Best Jockey.
Presented by ESPN, the ESPY Awards honor the best atheletic performances of the year. The night’s top honoree was New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, whose four awards included male athlete of the year.
"We are thrilled to win it again," Jerry Hissam, Borel’s agent said, of the award that the jockey also won in 2009.
Neither Hissam nor Borel attended the awards ceremony…
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Blind Luck Scores Thrilling Win in Delaware Oaks
Saturday, July 10, 2010
At the midpoint of the stretch run in Saturday's feaured $250,000 Delaware Oaks, the outlook was somewhat bleak for Fantasy Stakes and Kentucky Oaks winner, Blind Luck. However her will to win took over and the potential champion three-year-old filly doggedly pursued Havre de Grace and narrowly edged her rival to continue her relentless charge toward a divisional championship .
The mile-and-a-sixteenth outing was raced over a sealed, but sloppy, track, which was unlikely to assist the late-runningdaughter of Pollard's Vision, but her inherent class made up the difference. Coupled with new rider, Joel Rosario, for the first time,…
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Asmussen May Have Another Champion in Churchill Stakes Winner, Kantharos
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Steve Asmussen, who has dominated as leading trainer at Oaklawn and across the country during the past decade, may have unleashed another superstar this week in his two-year-old Kantharos, a stablemate of Rachel Alexandra.
Kantharos moved to the head of the class in the two-year-old ranks with his nine-and-a-half lengths win in Saturday's featured $108,200 Bashford Manor Stakes at six furlongs. Under Robby Albarado the talented son of Lion Heart overcame a bobble at the start to overhaul the pacesetters and take command as he pleased at the head of the stretch. He drew off from there and completed…
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Hollywood Stakes, Calder Summit of Speed Offer Plenty of Action This Weekend
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Major stakes events at opposite coasts will get the attention of racing fans on Saturday afternoon. Calder, in Florida, will present seven stakes races on the Saturday card, headed by the $350,000 Princess Rooney, for older fillies and mares at six furlongs. Hollywood Park offers a tempting twosome of races, including the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup, for older runners at a mile-and-a-quarter.
Belmont Park's $600,000 Man o War Stakes, for older runners at a mile and three furlongs on the turf course, adds to the high quality of racing expected for the weekend.
Mother Ruth, trained by Bob…
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Majesticperfection Sparkles in Iowa Sprint Handicap
Saturday, June 26, 2010
While most of the attention for trainer Steve Asmussen over the past two seasons has been concerning the superstar runners Rachel Alexandra and Curlin, suddenly the leading Oaklawn trainer has caught the nation by surprise with his latest superstar, sprinter Majesticperfection, wearing the silks of the Padua Stable in the Iowa Sprint Handicap at Prairie Meadows.
With just one start this year, in February at the Fair Grounds, the four-year-old son of Harlan's Holiday suddenly appeared in allowance company at Oaklawn on April 1 and proved to be no April Fool's joke. A slight favorite on the afternoon, he…
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