Asmussen’s Tapiture Favored At Arkansas Derby
HOT SPRINGS — Steve Asmussen isn’t answering questions at the moment about allegations that he and a former top assistant mistreated horses under their care.
View ArticleFaldon: Arkansas Derby Is The Top Arkansas Event
HOT SPRINGS — Arkansas Derby day at Oaklawn Park is the greatest spectacle in Arkansas sports.
View ArticleHorse Racing: Poteau’s Caldwell Claims Oaklawn Title
HOT SPRINGS — After 13 years of coaching high school athletics, Poteau’s Danny Caldwell is now finding success coaching a different kind of athlete — horses.
View ArticleKing: Weakened Mandate For Lukas
HOT SPRINGS — Critical of the Kentucky Derby point system since its inception, trainer D. Wayne Lukas now has a legitimate reason to complain.
View ArticleKing: Derby-Winning Trainer Enlightens
LITTLE ROCK — Enthusiasm for California Chrome as a Triple Crown winner is proceeding under a yellow caution flag, toned down by what the winning trainer had to say about his druthers and long-range...
View ArticleKing: Preakness Encourages Exotics
LITTLE ROCK — Waiting in the Louisville airport on the day after a mid-80s Kentucky Derby, the muckety-muck from Louisiana Downs and The AP sportswriter were discussing the $5 exacta wager introduced...
View ArticleKing: Digging Deep For A Longshot
LITTLE ROCK — Searching past performances for any reason to support a longshot to pair up with California Chrome in the Belmont Stakes, I settled for a trainer and a tease.
View ArticleKing: Arkansan Has 2-Year-Old Prospect
LITTLE ROCK — For good reason, the owner of I Spent It wants another crack at a colt already identified as a contender for the 2015 Kentucky Derby.
View ArticleHorse Racing: Dixie Belle Highlights Oaklawn’s Opening Day Card
HOT SPRINGS — Six years ago, trainer Bret Calhoun saddled Silver City to win Oaklawn’s first stakes race of the 2009 meeting in the $50,000 Dixieland for 3-year-olds. Now, Calhoun hopes to win the...
View ArticleHorse Racing: Oaklawn Kicks Off 2015 Season
Hot Springs — Oaklawn Park General Manager Eric Jackson said late in the 2014 meeting that he wouldn’t trade places with any track in the country.
View ArticleHorse Racing: Carve Starts Year In Fifth Season Stakes
HOT SPRINGS — Multiple stakes winner Carve headlines nine older horses entered in today’s $100,000 Fifth Season Stakes at Oaklawn.
View ArticleHorse Racing: Mr. Z Looks To Break Through In Smarty Jones
HOT SPRINGS — Zayat Stables’ Mr. Z is a few feet from being a millionaire, yet the well-traveled son of Malibu Moon is still seeking his first career stakes victory. That could change today when Mr. Z...
View ArticleOaklawn: Booming Business Leads to Big Bump in Purses
HOT SPRINGS — Oaklawn, having just enjoyed strong across-the-board business in the month of January, announced it is raising overnight purses between $1,000 and $3,000 per race effective Thursday,...
View ArticleOaklawn: Ivan Fallunovalot Made Favorite For King Cotton
HOT SPRINGS — Ivan Fallunovalot has been winning a lot, too and will shoot for his ninth victory in 15 lifetime starts in the $100,000 King Cotton Stakes for older sprinters this afternoon at Oaklawn....
View ArticleOaklawn: Spring Included Favored In Carousel Stakes
HOT SPRINGS — Oaklawn’s Racing Festival of the South continues today with the $100,000 Carousel Stakes for older fillies and mares at six furlongs. Probable post time for the Carousel, the eighth of...
View ArticleMateriality Could Give American Pharoah A Run For His Money
NEW YORK — In Saturday’s 147th running of the Belmont Stakes, I will be betting on a colt named Materiality.
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