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Asmussen, who has won 14 Sam Houston Race Park leading trainer titles, will be seeking his fourth win in the Houston Ladies Classic.
Turf specialist Kitodan, who went from being claimed twice last year to winning Kentucky Downs’ Grade 3, $750,000 Big Ass Fans Dueling Grounds Derby, has been selected the National HBPA’s 2022 Claiming Horse of the Year.
At the close of 2022, Turfway Park’s Holiday Meet ended in style with jockey Gerardo Corrales, trainer Paulo Lobo, and owner Larry Best’s OXO Equine taking respective titles.
Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes drew a full field of 12, plus one also-eligible, running nine furlongs on turf at Gulfstream Park.
Colonel Liam was entered in an optional claiming allowance Dec. 15 at Gulfstream, where he was the first of three also-eligibles in an overflow field of 15. He ultimately was scratched when the race was rained off the grass to the all-weather Tapeta course.