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Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. is shown in this file photo.
Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. is shown in this file photo.

DAY 13 OF 56

FRIDAY’S ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE 4,500

ON-TRACK WAGERING $460,625

TOTAL WAGERING $2,669,183

CLASSIX CARRYOVER None

TODAY’S FIRST POST 1:05 p.m.

WAGERING MENU Win-place-show ($2 minimum), exacta ($1 minimum), trifecta ($0.50 minimum), and superfecta ($0.10 minimum) wagering on all races. $1 daily double on the first two races and the eighth and ninth races. $1 CLASSIX (races three through eight). $0.50 Pick-3 (rolling begins with race 2), $0.50 Pick 4 (races 2-5, 6-9).

SIMULCAST MENU 11 a.m. Gulfstream Park; 11:25 a.m. Tampa Bay; 11:25 a.m. Laurel Park; 11:50 a.m. Aqueduct; 1:25 p.m. Fair Grounds; 2:30 p.m. Santa Anita; 2:45 p.m. Golden Gate; 5 p.m. Penn National; 5:15 p.m. Turfway Park; 5:40 p.m. Delta Downs; 6 p.m. Charles Town; 6 p.m. Palm Beach (greyhounds); 6:15 p.m. Sam Houston; 6:25 p.m. Daytona Beach (greyhounds); 7:30 p.m. Southland (greyhounds).

FRIDAY’S STARS

Jockeys Ricardo Santana Jr., Corey Nakatani and trainer Ron Moquett. Santana, who leads all jockeys with 14 victories, won on Mae

B. Jones ($17) in the second for Moquett and on Terra Promessa ($3.20) in the eighth. Nakatani, tied for second in the standings with 9, won with Politicallycorrect ($14) in the third and Scout Leader ($5.20) in the ninth. Moquett’s victory gave him sole possession of first in the training standings with 7.

CLASSIX PAYOFF

There was one winning ticket in Friday’s $1 Classix worth $30,203.60. There were three winning favorites and a second betting choice in the six-race sequence, but there was also Politcallycorrect ($14), the fifth betting choice in the third race, the first leg of the wager and Retro Citizen ($13.80), the fourth betting choice in the sixth race.

MARTHA WASHINGTON

Grade I winner Nickname, fourthplace finisher in the Grade I $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland Race Course on Oct. 31, is the 8-5 program favorite for today’s $100,000 Martha Washington Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 mile, but that hasn’t stopped trainer Donnie K. Von Hemel from taking a double-barreled approach with multiple stakes winner My Master Plan and Ready to Confess. All four of undefeated My Master Plan’s starts came last year at Oklahoma City’s Remington Park, including a head victory over Dorodansa in the $100,000 Trapeze Stakes on Dec. 13. My Master Plan and Ready to Confess, a first-level allowance/optional claiming winner going a mile Jan. 15 at Oaklawn, are both 6-1 in the program. Trainer Kenny McPeek will be represented by Dorodansa in the race. McPeek also trains Dothraki Queen, the third-place finisher in last fall’s Grade I $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington. McPeek said Thursday that Dothraki Queen is about 10 days away from her first breeze. Dorodansa was the runner-up in her 3-year-old debut, a Jan. 15 first-level allowance/optional claimer at Oaklawn. Dorodansa, 4-1 on the morning line, was beaten a half-length by Ready to Confess in the Jan. 15 allowance/optional claimer.

FINAL FURLONG

Daddy’s Memory was declared a nonstarter in Friday’s opening race, a $7,500 claimer for fillies and mares, after stewards ruled the 5-year-old mare was detained by an assistant starter, resulting in an unfair start. Four of the five finishers in the race, all except Baby You a Song, were claimed by new owners and returned to new barns. … Arch Arch Baby, a 3-year-old daughter of 2011 Arkansas Derby winner Archarcharch, won the seventh race, a $68,000 maiden allowance. Arch Arch Baby is trained by Jinx Fires, who also trained Archarcharch. Jockey Jon Court rode Arch Arch Baby ($5.20). … Court has been suspended for three days — Feb. 7, 11-12 — for his ride on Zimmerman in last Saturday’s third race when Court angled Zimmerman out sharply at the head of the stretch. Zimmerman was not disqualified from his second-place finish as the race favorite. … Jockey Alex Cintron has been fined $500 (failed breathalyzer) after being removed from all his mounts Jan. 31. … Domain’s Rap became the first two-time winner of the meet in Thursday’s sixth race for trainer Federico Villafranco and Danny Caldwell, Oaklawn’s leading owner the past two years. … Whitmore, a candidate for the Grade III $500,000 Southwest Stakes Feb. 15, is scheduled to work Monday, according to Ron Moquett of Hot Springs, who co-owns and trains the gelding. … Nominations to the Southwest, a major local prep for the Grade I $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 16, closed Friday. … Arkansas football Coach Bret Bielema and staff attended the races while in Hot Springs for the Arkansas Football Coaches Association clinic. Bielema was scheduled to speak Friday night.

Information for this report was contributed by the Oaklawn Media Department.

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