OKLAHOMA CLASSICS RACES SET FOR OCTOBER 18 AT REMINGTON PARK
The 32nd Oklahoma Classics night is set for Friday, Oct. 18 at Remington Park. The 10-race program features the top Oklahoma-breds in divisional stakes action with total purses for the evening reaching $1,120,000. The top event of the night, the $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup, presented by FanDuel TV, drew a field of seven, 3-year-olds and …
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MISS CODE WEST POINTED OKLAHOMA CLASSICS DISTAFF, LETTA’S LEGACY POISED TO CHALLENGE
Remington Park’s Horse of the Meet for 2023, Miss Code West, tops the list of 21 nominees for the $145,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Handicap scheduled for Friday, Oct. 18. The 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred filly by Code West, out of the Kipling mare Inca Miss, was the only horse to win three stakes races at Remington Park …
PALUXY VICTORIOUS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2023 GOVERNOR’S CUP AT REMINGTON PARK
When Paluxy won the $100,600 Governor’s Cup last year in the opening stakes race of the meet at Remington Park, there was much rejoicing in the barn of trainer Scott Young and from all this horse’s backers. He was 5-years-old last year when he shocked the racing community with his win in the race at …
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KARI CRADDOCK ASCENDS INTO TOP 10 ALL-TIME TRAINERS AT REMINGTON PARK
When Math Mystery cruised home an easy winner in the second race on Thursday, Oct. 3, Kari Craddock moved past the late Roger Engel into Remington Park’s all-time top 10 for victories by a trainer. Jockey Leandro Goncalves rode Math Mystery to a 2-3/4 length victory at 1-5 odds for Craddock and owner Cres Ran …
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CAPPELLUCCI WEEKLY TRAVELS INCLUDE RECENT HIGHWAY SCARE
One of the fears of horse racing owners, trainers and jockeys has long been what can happen in their many hours of driving from track to track. Remington Park owner-trainer Dick Cappellucci learned that sometimes those fears turn into huge scares when he thanked the Lord above for keeping him out of a horrendous accident. …
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SCHOLL PLEASED WITH MISS CODE WEST’S RUNNER-UP FINISH IN REMINGTON PARK OAKS
Last year’s Remington Park Horse of the Meet, Miss Code West, made her trainer Kevin Scholl proud even with the first loss of her career at Remington Park in the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks on Sunday, Sept. 29. Prior to that race, Miss Code West was five-for-five in races in Oklahoma City, including multiple stakes …
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OKLAHOMA DERBY SCRATCHES DOWN TO FIELD OF SIX
The Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park has scratched down to a field of six. Declaring from the 1-1/8 miles race are Canada Gate and Society Man. If the race holds and starts six, it will be the smallest Oklahoma Derby field since 2003 when a field of six also left the gate. …
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ONE MORE BREEDERS’ CUP WINNING JOCKEY WILL BE PART OF OKLAHOMA DERBY BESIDES MIKE SMITH, FLORENT GEROUX
Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith has won 27 Breeders’ Cup races in his career and Florent Geroux has won eight. Both have mounts in Sunday’s Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park. There is also one more Breeders’ Cup-winning jockey involved in the race who has dodged the spotlight. Juan Leyva isn’t riding in the Grade …
REMINGTON PARK MULTIPLE STAKES-WINNING TURF HORSE, SUNLIT SONG, LIKELY WON’T COMPETE THIS SEASON
Trainer Mindy Willis says it is unlikely that Remington Park multiple-stakes winning horse, Sunlit Song, will race in Oklahoma City this meet. “He’s on vacation at my house in Jones, Okla., and he is having a great time,” Willis said. “He just hasn’t seemed the same when we sent him out to the track (for …
OKLAHOMA DERBY WEEK at REMINGTON PARK
Most Wanted, an undefeated colt by Candy Ride (ARG), out of the Distorted Humor mare Beach Walk, is the 5-2 morning line favorite for Sunday’s Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park. He couldn’t be any more in the spotlight than he is with his connections. His connections have had more of their share …