Oaklawn Park

Mystic Guide Monstrous in Razorback

HOT SPRINGS, AR – Godolphin homebred Mystic Guide was a monstrous 6-length winner in Saturday’s $600,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) at Oaklawn Park. The 2/1 second choice under Luis Saez, Mystic […]

Race Recaps

Kimari Still Queen of the Oaklawn Slop After Spring Fever

HOT SPRINGS, AR – Just as she did in last year’s Purple Martin Stakes, Ten Broeck Farm’s Kimari reasserted herself as queen of the Oaklawn Park slop after soundly winning […] Read More

Kentucky Derby

Southwest Preview: The Champ Is Here

After multiple weeks’ worth of weather delays, the second of four Oaklawn Park-based Kentucky Derby prep races will finally go off this Saturday with the Southwest Stakes (G3). A field […] Read More

Handicapping

Ricky’s Rockets 🚀: Gulfstream Park, Oaklawn Park and Santa Anita Picks for February 27, 2020

Ricky’s Rockets🚀 is ready to attack another Saturday of top-notch racing. This isn’t an ordinary Saturday with some stakes races. Unlike any other in 2021, we have 12 stakes races […] Read More

Podcast

BLINKERS OFF 485: Fountain of Youth, Southwest Stakes Previews and Rapid-Fire

The Racing Dudes preview the $300,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park and the $750,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park, each a Kentucky Derby prep. Then the […] Read More

Handicapping

Ricky’s Rockets 🚀: Gulfstream Park, Oaklawn Picks and Santa Anita Picks for February 26, 2020

Ricky’s Rockets🚀 definitely enjoyed getting back to Hot Springs, Arkansas! It has been a few weeks since we were live from Oaklawn Park, but we returned with a bang. Gulfstream […] Read More

Handicapping

Ricky’s Rockets 🚀: Gulfstream Park and Oaklawn Picks for February 25, 2020

Ricky’s Rockets🚀 had another strong week making the best of what tracks we had available to us! Now with the weather and cancellations behind us, we head back to Oaklawn […] Read More

Race Previews

Mystic Guide Leads Saturday’s Razorback Field

HOT SPRINGS, AR – Post positions for the rescheduled $600,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) for older horses Saturday at Oaklawn were drawn Tuesday. One horse entered again in the 1 1/16-mile Razorback […] Read More

Columns

Trainers, My Favorite Handicapping Angle

When I first dove into the intricacies of horse racing, I learned to admire the trainers, people whom owners trust to take care of expensive horses. Other than the horses […] Read More

Handicapping

Ricky’s Rockets ?: Gulfstream Park, Oaklawn Park and Santa Anita Picks for February 12, 2020

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s a rocket soaring through the sky! Ricky’s Rockets ? repeated last Thursday’s performance and was great again on Thursday afternoon sweeping the […] Read More