Stakes Preview: Rebel and Honeybee
Andy Serling & Paul Verderosa look ahead to the Rebel Stakes & Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn.
Andy Serling & Paul Verderosa look ahead to the Rebel Stakes & Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn.
Trainer Ron Moquett is testing the unknown with Time for Truth in the $1.25 million Rebel Stakes (G2) Feb. 24 at Oaklawn Park.
The Road, contenders on the Triple Crown trail
The winners of Oaklawn Park's first and second Kentucky Derby (G1) points races—Catching Freedom and Mystik Dan—will bypass the Feb. 24 Rebel Stakes (G2), but they could meet again in the $1.5 million Arkansas Derby (G1).
It is anyone's race Feb. 24 in the 1 1/16-mile, $600,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) at Oaklawn Park when a deep field of older horses compete for graded stakes glory.
Coined a "big league" horse by trainer Brad Cox after his sparkling five-furlong tune-up over the weekend, WinStar Farm's Timberlake journeys to Oaklawn Park with a lofty chance in the $1.25 million Rebel Stakes (G2) Feb. 24.
The $400,000 Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn Park may turn into a showcase for one of the leading first-crop sires of 2023 as Omaha Beach will be represented by Alys Beach and Neom Beach.
Grade 1 winner Timberlake registered his fifth breeze Feb. 16 since resuming training for Brad Cox at Fair Grounds Race Course. Timberlake is scheduled to make his sophomore debut in Oaklawn Park's Rebel Stakes (G2) Feb. 24.
Kentucky Derby (G1) hopeful Liberal Arts, who most recently finished third in the Southwest Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park, will be aimed at the Arkansas Derby (G1) for his next start, trainer Robert Medina told Oaklawn publicity.
After five race victories as a runner at Oaklawn Park, champion Mitole was represented by his fourth and most exciting to date as a sire when heavily favored Booth delivered emphatically in his 3-year-old debut Feb. 11.