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To not be on the stakes schedule, todays live racing card at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort features a race filled with entries who have won previously, all amassed by Arkansas-bred horses.

Big Everest, a three-time stakes winner beaten as the favorite in his last start; graded stakes-winning turf sprinter Cazadero, and Highestdistinction, who upset Big Everest in their last meeting, top a list of 20 horses nominated to the $200,000 Baltimore-Washington International Turf Cup (G3) Saturday, Sept. 16 at Pimlico Race Course.

A longtime equine veterinarian said changes in diets for horses over a period of time have had an impact on their well-being and performance.

A cooling-off at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort was in order after last weekend produced a $21-million all-sources handle.

This is the kind of Saturday at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort that fans come talking about seasoned veterans and leave enraptured with new discoveries.

For the second time in three years, trainer Brad Cox has the Smarty Jones Stakes winner in his barn for an Arkansas horse owner.

Horses break out of the starting gate on Rebel Stakes day in 2018 at Oaklawn Park. (Eclipse Sportswire) Rebel Stakes day — the second-biggest day of racing at Oaklawn Park — is Saturday. Only Arkansas Derby day offers higher purses and bigger races at the Hot Springs, Ark. track. The $1 million, Grade 2 Rebel, a Kentucky Derby prep offering 50-20-10-5 qualifying points to the top four finishers, anchors the five-stakes card, which also includes the Grade 2 Azeri Stakes for fillies and mares...