It is a beautiful Palm Sunday afternoon at Oaklawn Park, where the Grade 1, $750,000 Apple Blossom Handicap and $150,000 Fifth Season will close out the Racing Festival of the South. Sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s come a day after continual rain and winds accompanied Arkansas Derby Day. The current track condition one race out from the Fifth Season is good. The Apple Blossom, which goes later on the card, is one of two Grade 1 races run in the region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The other is the Arkansas Derby. 

Trainers Asmussen, Mott and Schnell talk starters in Apple Blossom: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/midnight-bisou-elate-face-apple-blossom?type=

Entries for the Sunday card at Oaklawn: https://www.drf.com/race-entries/track/OP/country/USA/date/04-14-2019

DRF Bets: www.drf.com/bets

Preview of the Fifth Season: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/snapper-sinclair-solid-favorite-fifth-season?type=

A look back at Festival races from Friday, Saturday: 

So what's a mitole? We asked Mitole's owner, Bill Heiligbrodt, after the sprinter won the Count Fleet: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/mitole-takes-count-fleet-sprint-extend-winning-streak-five?type=track-news

Omaha Beach wins Arkansas Derby: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/omaha-beach-determined-winner-arkansas-derby?type=

Quip wins Oaklawn Handicap: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/quip-has-no-trouble-wet-track-oaklawn-handicap?type=track-news

Lady Apple wins Fantasy on Friday: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/lady-apple-confidently-ridden-fantasy-score?type=track-news

Asmussen, Van Berg on respective Fantasy runners on Saturday: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/lady-apple-churchill-bound-following-fantasy-win?type=track-news

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