Stakes winner Endorsement on grounds

LITTLE ROCK — Multiple Grade III stakes winner Endorsement is on the grounds at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs for Eoin Harty, among the highprofile training newcomers for the 2013 live meeting that begins Jan. 11.

Endorsement broke his maiden at the 2010 Oaklawn meeting and won the $800,000 Grade III Sunland Park Derby in his next start.He won the $300,000 Grade III Texas Mile in April.

Other well-known trainers expected to have a string at Oaklawn for the first time, or for the first time in several years, include Dale Romans, Al Stall, Helen Pitts and Phil Sims.

There were 677 horses on the grounds early Tuesday afternoon.