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The last Saturday in January, originally scheduled for three Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifying points races, will instead feature just one: the January 31 Holy Bull Stakes (G3) on Gulfstream Park. The other two Derby preps are the $1 million Southwest Stakes (G3). Oaklawn Park and the $200,000 Withers Stakes Aqueduct racecoursewill not take place this […]
The severe winter conditions resulting from Winter Storm Fern, with cold temperatures pushing temperatures into the single digits in some parts of the United States, are still causing live racing cancellations across the eastern United States from Kentucky to the Northeast. Oaklawn Park announced on January 27 the cancellation of its January 30-February 1 racing […]
Universe a final second-place finish in the 2025 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs after two previous stakes placements, it aims to turn stakes as a mere 3-year-old in the January 3 Smarty Jones Stakes on Oaklawn Park. The track-pulled colt fights the undefeated one Santa Fe Ranch and seven others in the […]
While people will say, “Happy New Year!” On January 1, all thoroughbreds celebrate their birthday. That serves as the final reminder that the spring classics will soon take shape. Horses that were 2 at the start of the week will turn 3 on Thursday and talk of the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1) will continue to […]
A return to 13 days of rest and a stretch of a sprint to a route turned out to be insignificant obstacles Counting stars who improved to 3-for-4 in the $150,000 Year’s End Stakes on December 27 Oaklawn Park. The Year End victory marked her second stakes victory after racing by four lengths in the […]
West Point thoroughbreds’ Counting stars hopes to increase her winning tally as the two-year-old filly leads the field of nine in the $150,000 End of Year Stakes at Oaklawn Park December 27. The daughter of Honor AP will be competing for her third win in four career starts. Trained by Mark Casse, she was recently […]
Oaklawn Park the 2025-26 racing season kicks off on Dec. 12 with the $150,000 Advent Stakes, the opening marker of a record 62 stakes worth more than a total of $18.3 million this winter and next spring at the Hot Springs, Ark., track. Entries were taken for Advent and the remainder of the Opening Day […]
