Top Oklahoma-Bred Welder Preparing For Rare Out-Of-State Appearance At Oaklawn Park Sponsored by:
Trainer Teri Luneack and her star sprinter Welder at Ra-Max Farms in Claremore, Okla.
Oaklawn will run two $1 million races Saturday (Apple Blossom and Oaklawn Handicap) and have a millionaire running in an allowance event when Welder makes a rare appearance outside Oklahoma for trainer Theresa Sue Luneack and owner Ra-Max Farms LLC.
Oklahoma-bred Welder is the 2-1 program favorite for the 10th race – the Oaklawn Handicap and Apple Blossom are bookends – a conditioned sprint for older horses. Welder will be making his first start since a Dec. 19, 2020, allowance victory at Remington Park. It was his record-tying 15th career victory at the Oklahoma City venue.
Welder Gets Chance To Break More Remington Park Records Dec. 19 Sponsored by:
Welder cruises to a 5-1/2 length win in the $70,000 Silver Goblin Stakes on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 under jockey David Cabrera. The win was the millionaire gray’s fourth straight in the race and his 11th Remington Park stakes win in his career, a new local record.
Two-time Oklahoma Horse of the Year Welder is costing Remington Park a lot of money in ink. Virtually every time he steps on the track at the Oklahoma City, Okla., racetrack, Remington has to re-write its history book.
Such may be the case on Saturday, Dec. 19, when the 7-year-old Oklahoma-bred millionaire gelding will be trying to tie the track record for most career wins at Remington Park – 15. If he wins the $34,000 Guthrie Sprint allowance race on the next-to-last night of racing this meet, he would move into a three-way tie with Highland Ice and Elegant Exxactsy. Each of those horses won 15 times at Remington Park. The Guthrie