DAY 42
ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE 7,750
ON-TRACK HANDLE $739,928
OFF-TRACK HANDLE $2,349,471
TOTAL HANDLE $3,088,399
CLASSIX CARRYOVER $4,193
TODAY’S FIRST POST 1:05 p.m.
TODAY’S WAGERING MENU Win-placeshow, exacta, trifecta and superfecta wagering offered on all races. Daily double (races 1-2, 9-10). CLASSIX (races 3-8). Pick-3 (rolling begins with race 2). Pick-4 (races 2-5 races 7-10).
TODAY’S SIMULCASTING SCHEDULE 11:30 a.m. Gulfstream Park, 11:30 a.m. Laurel Park, 11:25 a.m. Tampa Bay, 12:10 p.m. Turfway Park, 12:20 p.m. Aqueduct, 12:30 p.m. Fair Grounds, 1:50 p.m. Hawthorne, 2:30 p.m. Santa Anita, 2:45 p.m. Golden Gate, 5 p.m. Penn National, 5:45 p.m. Wheeling (greyhounds), 6:00 p.m. Mountaineer, 6:05 p.m. Charles Town, 6:10 p.m. Sam Houston, 7:30 p.m. Southland (greyhounds), 8:30 p.m. Los Alamitos
FRIDAY’S STARS
Chris Landeros won two races, the seventh aboard Alsvid ($3.40) in a $67,000 allowance sprint and the eighth race on Trace Creek ($4.20) in the Arkansas Breeders’ Stakes. … Chris Hartman increased his lead in the training standings to 21-18 over Steve Asmussen by winning the seventh race. Asmussen was winless Friday. Asmussen, a six-time Oaklawn training champion, became the first trainer at the meet to surpass $1 million in earnings ($1,007,685.). … Jockey Ramon Vazquez won the second race to cut Ricardo Santana Jr.’s lead to 41-39 in the standings.
FINAL FURLONG
Racing held on a dry, fast track for the third consecutive day after 10 days of off surfaces. … Friday’s nine races were won by nine different trainers, including Mike Rone, who scored his first victory of the meet with Time for Parading in the fourth. Rone, who won in his 10th start, represents the 93rd different trainer to win a race at the 2015 meet. Horses have been started by 169 different trainers. Last year, races were won by 109 of 200 trainers who started at least one horse. In 2013, races were won by 110 of 198 trainers who started at least one horse. … Unbeaten Promise Me Silver is scheduled to return to Oaklawn for the $100,000 Instant Racing Stakes for 3-year-old fillies April 11, trainer Bret Calhoun told the Oaklawn Park media department Friday. Promise Me Silver won the $100,000 Dixie Belle Stakes on Jan. 15 at Oaklawn and was entered in the track’s Grade III $150,000 Honeybee Stakes on March 7 before Calhoun decided to scratch the filly because of concern over track conditions following a winter storm. Promise Me Silver hasn’t run since a romping victory in the $75,000 Two Altazano Stakes Feb. 14 at Sam Houston. Promise Me Silver is 6 for 6 in her career, including five stakes, and earned $259,355. … Stewards suspended jockey Floyd Wethey Jr. three racing days (April 1-3) for an incident in Wednesday’s fifth race. Stewards cited Wethey for allowing his mount, Nicoles Bullet, to “drift down twice without being clear” of Sugarsboro shortly after the start of the 6-furlong race for lower-level Arkansas-bred filly and mare claimers. Because Sugarsboro won the race by 2½ lengths over Nicoles Bullet, there was no disqualification. … Laope, the 3-1 second choice in Thursday’s third race, was declared an official starter following a stewards’ inquiry into the start of the race. Laope dwelt, spotting the field approximately 11 lengths after a quarter-mile, and trailed throughout the 6-furlong race. Owner/trainer Stan Seagle claimed Laope out of the race for $5,000.