DAY 27 of 57
SUNDAY'S ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE 5,000
SUNDAY'S TOTAL HANDLE $2,740,883
SUNDAY'S ON-TRACK HANDLE $350,671
SUNDAY'S OFF-TRACK HANDLE $2,390,212
TODAY'S SIMULCAST SCHEDULE Parx, 11:22 a.m.; Derby Lane (greyhounds), 11:30 a.m.; Mahoning Valley, 11:45 a.m.; Palm Beach (greyhounds), noon; Daytona Beach (greyhounds), 12:05 p.m.; Turf Paradise, 1:55 p.m.
SUNDAY'S STARS
David Cohen and Ramon Vazquez, who are third and fourth in the jockey's standings, won two races Sunday. Cohen, who now has 20 victories in 128 starts, won the sixth race with Guska Mon Shoes ($5.20), covering 6 furlongs in 1:12.20. He won the seventh race with Brooklyn Bites ($3.60), covering 6 furlongs in 1:12.79. Vazquez, who now has 16 victories in 104 starts, won the first race with Queen Kate ($5.20) covering 6 furlongs in 1:12.82. He won the eighth race with Jersey Heist ($8.60), covering 6 furlongs in 1:11.97.
Trainer Federico Villafranco, who has 10 victories in 64 starts, won the first race with Queen Kate. He won the fifth race with Ritzy Lass ($15.20). Ritzy Lass, ridden by Alex Canchari, covered 1 mile in 1:41.97.
FINAL FURLONG
Steve Asmussen ($1,028,766) became the first trainer to reach $1 million in purse earnings at the meet Saturday, the 26th day of racing. The trainer has won eight Oaklawn training titles since 2007 and set a single-season meet record for purse earnings in 2016 ($3,448,729). According to Equibase, racing's official data-gathering organization, Asmussen has started 2,602 horses at Oaklawn since his first in 1989, winning 554 races and earning $23,964,536 in purses. ... Warrior's Club worked a half-mile in :49.20 Sunday morning for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas in advance of a scheduled start in the $125,000 Hot Springs Stakes for older sprinters March 10. ... Next-race plans are pending for Bourne in Nixa, who won Saturday's $125,000 Gazebo Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters, trainer Steve Margolis said.
Information for this report was contributed by Oaklawn media department
Sports on 02/26/2018