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CLAREMORE – For the 12th consecutive year, top thoroughbred contenders will compete at Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs for the lead position in more than 270 races scheduled between March 22 and May 26. Those 270 races include eight stakes races with six exclusively for Accredited Oklahoma-Breds. Races begin at 1 p.m. 
“As one of only a few tracks running last spring, we are now very rehearsed in conducting a safe race meet under pandemic restrictions and CDC guidelines,” said John Lies, WRD racing secretary, announcer and oddsmaker. “We broke new ground with the...

Without a Kentucky Derby prep this week, racing presents a sampler platter of subjects, including the delayed start to the season for would-be Derby favorite Essential Quality.

Speedy Elle Z Takes Off-The-Turf Edition Of Mardi Gras Stakes Sponsored by: 2/16/2021 - Elle Z with jockey Mitchell Murrill captures the 78th running of the $75,000 Mardi Gras Stakes at Fair Grounds. Hodges Photography / Jan Brubaker There were no fans in the stands, the temperatures were frigid, and beads were scarce, but as always, the traditional Fat Tuesday card at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots was highlighted by the 78th running of the Mardi Gras Stakes, and M Bar O's Elle Z turned it into a one-horse show. With an abundance of rain in the days leading up and record-low t...

Welder Earns Third Straight Oklahoma Horse Of The Year Title Sponsored by: Trainer Teri Luneack and her star sprinter Welder at Ra-Max Farms in Claremore, Okla. Welder, the millionaire Oklahoma-bred Thoroughbred that has earned endless records racing in Oklahoma, added another award to his record book the size of the novel “War and Peace.” He has added, for the third year in a row, Oklahoma's All-Breeds Horse of the Year, presented by the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission. The now 8-year-old gray gelded son of The Visualiser, out of the Tiznow mare Dance Softly, owned by Ra-Max ...

Sponsored by: Hunka Burning Love wins the 2020 Jeffrey A. Hawk Memorial at Remington Among the best claims of the 2020 Oaklawn meeting occurred last April when owner/trainer Karl Broberg took Hunka Burning Love for $32,000 out of a seventh-place finish in a 1 1/8-mile event for older horses. Broberg didn't have to shake for the gelding, either. All Hunka Burning Love has done in 10 starts for Broberg is win eight races, including four stakes, by a combined margin of more than 43 lengths and bankroll $259,199. Broberg had previously claimed Hunka Burning Love for $50,000 in September...