DAY 10 of 56
SATURDAY’S ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE 15,000
ON-TRACK WAGERING $1,038,266
OFF-TRACK WAGERING $3,483,491
TOTAL WAGERING $4,521,757
CLASSIX CARRYOVER $8,351.53
TODAY’S FIRST POST 1:30 p.m.
TODAY’S WAGERING MENU Win-placeshow ($2 minimum), exacta ($1 minimum), trifecta ($0.50 minimum), and superfecta ($0.10 minimum) wagering on all races. $1 daily double on the first two races and the eighth and ninth races. $1 CLASSIX (races three through eight). $0.50 Pick-3 (rolling begins with race 2), $0.50 Pick 4 (races 2-5, 6-9).
SIMULCASTING MENU
11:20 a.m. Aqueduct, 11:25 a.m. Laurel Park, 11:25 a.m. Tampa Bay, 11:35 a.m. Gulfstream Park, 1:25 p.m. Fair Grounds, 1:30 p.m. Turfway Park, 2:30 p.m. Santa Anita, 2:45 p.m. Golden Gate.
SATURDAY’S STARS
Jockey Sebastian Saez won two races, giving him 41 for his career and reducing his apprentice allowance to 5 pounds. Saez won on Take It Like A Man ($7.40) in the first and She’sabrees ($10) in the fifth. … Trainer Wayne Catalano won two races, including the first-time starter Major League ($6.80) in the fourth, a $68,000 maiden allowance for 3-yearolds. The victory was Catalano’s second with a first-time starting 3-year-old in the past six days. Catalano scored with firsttime starting Arkansas-bred Aunt Gayle in last Sunday’s ninth race, a $68,000 maiden allowance for Arkansas-bred fillies and mares.
12 NOT THE UNLUCKIEST NUMBER
Prime Number, an 8-year-old gelding, won the fourth race, a $7,500 claimer with a $21,000 purse, in wireto-wire fashion for trainer John Cox and jockey Shane Laviolette, after breaking from post position No. 12 in the race at 1 1/16th miles. It was the first victory in seven tries for a horse coming out of the 12 post in a two-turn race at the meet. Horses breaking from the 12 in sprint races came into Saturday 1 for
- Last season, horses breaking from the 12 were 2 of 21 in route races and 2 of 44 in sprint races. The second-place finisher in Saturday’s fourth race, Zero X Zero, broke from post position No. 11, providing a 12-11 exacta that paid $130 for a $1 ticket. On Jan. 23, horses breaking from post positions 11-12 ran 1-2 in the seventh race, a $70,000 optional claiming allowance. The 11-12 exacta paid $123.50.
FINAL FURLONG
Two-time Oaklawn Park riding champion Calvin Borel, who won Saturday’s King Cotton Stakes aboard Ivan Fallunovalot, will begin a threeday suspension today for an infraction that occurred in the eighth race Jan.
Borel will be off all mounts today, Thursday and Friday. Borel’s mount in the eighth race Jan. 21, American Dubai, was disqualified from second and placed third in the $70,000 allowance race for 3-year-olds. Stewards ruled American Dubai dropped in near the finish and impeded the path of Torrentes, the third-place finisher. … Smarty Jones Stakes winner Discreetness worked 5 furlongs in 1:00.40 Saturday in preparation for the Grade III $500,000 Southwest Stakes on Feb.
Discreetness galloped out 6 furlongs in 1:13.40. … 3-year-old prospect Whitmore worked 5 furlongs in 1:03.40 for trainer Ron Moquett, who said the gelding is being pointed to the Southwest Stakes. Whitmore scored a 3¼-length first-level allowance victory Jan. 16 at 6 furlongs in 1:10.57. … Multiple stakes winner Hebbronville was scratched from the $100,000 King Cotton Stakes for older sprinters Saturday because of hives, trainer Lynn Whiting said.
Information for this report contributed by the Oaklawn media department.