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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