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HOT SPRINGS -- Trainer Steve Asmussen has set records in all directions entering the final weekend of the live racing season at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort. Today's card offers a horse from another barn a chance to make history.
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HOT SPRINGS -- Trainer Steve Asmussen has set records in all directions entering the final weekend of the live racing season at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort. Today's card offers a horse from another barn a chance to make history.
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.