March 14, 2013
Led by Graded stakes winners Super Ninety Nine and Oxbow, a field of 11 will chase the lucrative purse and Kentucky Derby points Saturday in the $600,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn. Read More
March 13, 2013
Charles J. Cella’s Cyber Secret has proven to be a horse for the course, which is a good thing considering his owner is Oaklawn’s President. The 4-year-old Broken Vow colt earned his third straight win of the meet and his first career stakes with a hard-fought victory over Golden Ron in Saturday’s $150,000 Razorback Handicap (G3). Read More
March 09, 2013
Always in a Tiz and new rider Calvin Borel, who won the 5,000th race of his career Thursday, got a feel for each other in advance of the $600,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) March 16 with an easy half mile workout in 48 3/5 Saturday. The Tiznow colt will be attempting to redeem himself after a troubled third in the Jan. 21 Smarty Jones Stakes as the favorite and a fifth-place finish in the Feb. 18 Southwest Stakes in which he exited the race with a lung infection. Read More
March 07, 2013
Saturday’s $150,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) drew a competitive 10-horse field featuring some familiar horses to Oaklawn fans, including last year’s winner Alternation, Donoharm, winner of the Fifth Season and Essex this season, and two of last year’s top 3-year-olds, Najjaar and Atigun. Read More
March 07, 2013
Last year, Charles Cella’s Cyber Secret was the hot horse after a 5 1/4-length victory in an allowance, which led to starts in both the Southwest (G3) and Rebel (G2) stakes where he was fifth both times. Flash Forward to 2013 and he is once again the “now” horse heading into Saturday’s $150,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) with two impressive allowance wins over the track this meet. The Razorback will mark his first stakes attempt since the Rebel. Read More