2025 THOROUGHBRED CLASS FOR OKLAHOMA HORSE RACING HALL OF FAME AT REMINGTON PARK
Remington Park will honor a group of five as new inductees into its Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Friday, Dec. 5. The group will be presented between races that evening.
The 2025 class representing Thoroughbred racing includes two horses, two owners/breeders and one track announcer.
Silver Goblin
The versatile gray provided many great memories over a career that started in 1993 and concluded in 1999. Owned and bred in Oklahoma by the late Al Horton of McAlester, Okla., Silver Goblin won six straight races at Remington Park from age two to three, including the 1993 Mathis Brothers Futurity.
Trained by Kenny Smith and ridden in all but one career race by Dale Cordova, Silver Goblin won multiple graded stakes events, and finished a gallant second to the great Cigar in the Grade 1 Oaklawn Handicap in 1995.
Overall, Silver Goblin made 26 attempts with 16 wins, four seconds and three thirds for earnings of $1,083,895. At Remington Park he won seven of 10 attempts, with one second and one third.
Senor Buscador
A winner of his only two attempts at Remington Park, Senor Buscador debuted a special ability in how he would win his races for the rest of his career.
Owned by Joey Peacock, Jr. and trained by Todd Fincher, Senor Buscador broke his maiden going 5-1/2 furlongs at Remington Park on Nov. 6, 2020. He was over 10 lengths behind the leader when he fired his move coming off the lone turn, making up the ground and pulling away to win by 2-1/2 lengths. The effort moved him into stakes competition.
The 2020 Springboard Mile is where Senor Buscador caught the eyes of the racing world as he overcame a poor start, fell behind by at least 15 lengths with over a half-mile left, then launched his preferred rally to fly by his nine rivals and go away to win by 5-3/4 lengths.
After overcoming an injury as a 3-year-old, Senor Buscador showed up in many stakes events, none bigger than his triumph in the world’s richest race, the $20 million Saudi Cup in 2024. There, he once again rallied from the back of the pack to win the 1-1/8 miles event by a head.
Retired in January 2025, Senor Buscador moved on to a stallion career. He raced 27 times from 2020-2024, winning seven with two seconds and three thirds, accumulating $12,944,427 in earnings.
Kris and John Richter (Richter Family Trust)
The Perkins, Okla. family have been prominent owners and breeders throughout the entire history of Remington Park, the Richters have enjoyed success with multiple stakes winners, including the likes of Okie Ride, D Fine Okie and Bien Nicole to name just a few.
Operating as Kristine and John Richter, then as the Richter Family Trust, they have enjoyed more than 120 wins at Remington Park, just since 1992 with earnings of more than $4.6 million.
Okie Ride won 14 of 33 career starts at Remington Park, focused on the track’s sprint stakes for the final years of his career, rarely experiencing defeat.
D Fine Okie won multiple stakes races here, including many Oklahoma Classics events, with none bigger than her score against males in the 2007 Classics Cup.
Bien Nicole took the Richters to the Breeders’ Cup where she led before giving way in the 2003 Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita. Overall, she was in the money in 22 of her 24 career attempts, winning 12, while earning more than $1 million.
The Richters are also well represented by their breeding operation. On most race dates at Remington Park, at least one breeding win can be credited to them.
Clark Brewster
Another Oklahoma-based owner and breeder with plenty of national success, Clark Brewster operates out of Tulsa, Okla.
Since 1992, Brewster has 245 wins as an owner at Remington Park with total earnings beyond $4.3 million. He is currently second in all-time owner victories locally.
Brewster always has runners competing at Remington Park while also racing nationally. He has utilized the services of racing’s all-time leading trainer, Steve Asmussen for decades. Among the top runners Brewster has campaigned alone or in partnership recently is Cogburn, a multiple graded stakes winner in 2024 in turf sprints, now a stallion after earning more than $2.4 million in a career with nine wins from 16 starts.
Brewster has won multiple stakes races at Remington Park throughout his career with Bayerd among the best, winning the 2014 Springboard Mile.
Brewster also gains breeding wins at Remington Park, with most race cards conducted.
Jim Byers
The original voice of Remington Park, Byers moved to Oklahoma City to become track’s first announcer in 1988. He continued in that position, calling up to three racing seasons for many calendar years until 1999.
Byers left horse racing for a time, concentrating on broadcasting other sports including baseball and hockey. He returned to calling races in the early 2000s and is now the announcer at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, serving there since 2016.
Remington Park racing moves into October with a four-date race week, Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 2-5. The first race nightly is at 6pm. Sunday racing on Oct. 5 begins at 2pm. All times are Central.
Remington Park has provided more than $390 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. The 2025 Oklahoma Classics Night of stakes racing for top Oklahoma-breds is Friday, Oct. 17. The Thoroughbred Season continues through Dec. 20. Must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.
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