May 16, 2013
Summer kicks into high gear at Oaklawn with a Sawyer Brown concert at the Finish Line Theatre Thursday, June 6, highlighting a fun-filled month that ends with the Super Summer Spectacular Wednesday, June 30. Read More
April 26, 2013
The music lineup for the Smokelawn BBQ Championship Saturday, May 4, has been set and will feature some of the region’s most popular Blues bands performing in Oaklawn’s infield Kentucky Derby Day. The acts scheduled for this event, which features professional and amateur BBQ cook teams competing for $10,000 in prize money, are John Calvin Brewer Band, Trey and Dave, Moonshine Mafia and Salt and Pepper. Read More
April 23, 2013
The live race meet may be over, but the fun and excitement will keep going strong at Oaklawn as it kicks off a full summer of events with the first ever Smokelawn BBQ Championship Saturday, May 4, Kentucky Derby Day. Oaklawn is opening its Infield for this all-day event featuring professional and amateur BBQ cook teams competing for nearly $10,000 in prize money. Read More
April 14, 2013
Cyber Secret remained undefeated during the current meet at Oaklawn Park by scoring a mild upset in the 67th edition of the $500,000 Oaklawn Park Handicap (G2) in front of 66,158 hometown fans in Saturday. With the win, he gave owner and track president Charles J. Cella and his long-time trainer Lynn Whiting their first victories in one of the track’s signature events. Read More
April 14, 2013
Repole Stable’s Overanalyze, a top 2-year-old last year, who had fallen off the radar, jumped back into the Kentucky Derby picture with a dominating 4 ¼ length victory in Saturday’s $1 million Arkansas Derby (G1) before a crowd of 66,158. The victory earned him 100 points based on Churchill Downs’ criteria for making the 20-horse field and ranks him fifth among the hopefuls for the first Saturday in May. Read More