Chris Landeros News Today

HOT SPRINGS -- Two fillies with similar names, one foaled in Kentucky and the other in the owners native Minnesota, represent trainer Mac Robertson in todays $150,000 Dixie Belle Stakes at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort.

HOT SPRINGS -- Two fillies with similar names, one foaled in Kentucky and the other in the owners native Minnesota, represent trainer Mac Robertson in todays $150,000 Dixie Belle Stakes at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort.

Through no fault of its own, this years Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort is denied the national prominence it might have received had not Mother Nature intervened.

Because of an equine overbite, Bayakoa often charged to the wire with her tongue hanging out of the side of her mouth.

Other than losing the defending champion and original program favorite, the $150,000 Fifth Season Stakes today at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort looks formful.

Team Valor International’s Romagna Mia is tabbed as the 6-5 morning-line favorite for Tuesday’s $125,000 Via Borghese at Gulfstream Park.

Kentucky-based trainer Phil Sims may never have another one like Dont Tell Sophia, but then how many horsemen do?

Jockeys Eduardo Gallardo and Chris Landeros escaped serious injury after being involved in a spill in Friday’s ninth race at Oaklawn.

Speed Bias (#4) has another chance to grab his first career stakes race victory Saturday in Oaklawn’s $200,000 Tinsel Stakes

Assael Espinoza put an exclamation point on Golden Gate’s closing week posting 10 wins including a stakes race and a five-win day Saturday.