HOT SPRINGS Ricardo Santana Jr. peeked under his shoulder looking for competition as the field approached the quarter pole in the $200,000 Lake Hamilton Stakes on Saturday at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort.
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Trainer Nancy Knott’s one-horse stable has grown to two in recent months and both Sunset Paynter and Navy Seal are scheduled to run Saturday at Oaklawn.
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In the early spring of 2016, Livia Frazar was asked where she saw her husband s training career in five years. That trainer, then an up and comer obsessed with horses, was Brad Cox.
“I see him at the top,” she said. “He ll be at the top.”
Frazar was right, but it only took her husband four years to complete a meteoric rise and capture his first Eclipse Award as the country s outstanding trainer of 2020.
“I hope she s still seeing that five years from now or 10,” Cox said during a Feb. 1 interview at Oaklawn, where he has more than 40 horses stabled. “We ll see how it goes.”