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Columbia County produced the only Arkansas horse owner with a Kentucky Derby winner: Lil E. Tee in 1992 for the late Magnolia oilman Cal Partee, with the late Lynn Whiting saddling and Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day aboard. Stephen and Keeley DeSalvo of Hot Springs raced 2011 winner Animal Kingdom (trained by Graham Motion) in the Team Valor partnership of majority owner Barry Irwin.

Columbia County produced the only Arkansas horse owner with a Kentucky Derby winner: Lil E. Tee in 1992 for the late Magnolia oilman Cal Partee, with the late Lynn Whiting saddling and Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day aboard. Stephen and Keeley DeSalvo of Hot Springs raced 2011 winner Animal Kingdom (trained by Graham Motion) in the Team Valor partnership of majority owner Barry Irwin.

Saturday afternoon when the shadows are growing longer, much of America will turn its attention to Hot Springs, home of Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort and the Arkansas Derby and the Fantasy Stakes, the premier races of the day for colts and fillies.

HOT SPRINGS -- Mystik Dan, whose sire won the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile twice, is poised to make Ken McPeek a first-time winner in the race that every horseman covets but a Kentuckian, like himself, especially holds dear.

One of the privileges of serving in the ministry is the opportunity to be “pastor” to people in times of joy and in times of adversity. Having that “ministry of […]