Oaklawn closes out its meet Saturday with a 12-race card highlighted by the inaugural $300,000 Oaklawn Invitational that awards its winner a fees-paid berth into the Preakness Stakes. There are no current changes to the Oaklawn Invitational. Also on the card is the $200,000 Arkansas Breeders' Championship led by Hoonani Road, who is 6-for-6 at Oaklawn.
It is cloudy and 64 degrees at present, with the high forecast for 74 and just a 20 percent chance of showers, according to The Weather Channel. The infield is open and folks are getting settled with a little over an hour to first post time, which is 12:35 p.m. Central. The track is listed as "good" heading into the card Saturday.
Here's a few Oaklawn-provided stats heading into final card of meet. There have been 555 claims since the meet opened for $9 million in transactions between stables. M & M Racing leads the owner standings 59-21 over Danny Caldwell. Steve Asmussen leads the trainer standings 62-48 over Robertino Diodoro. Ricardo Santana, Jr., now at Churchill Downs, has a one-win lead over David Cohen in the rider standings, 73-72.
UPDATE: Cohen has tied Santana atop the standings with his win in the second, aboard 4-1 shot Storminside.
For entries for the card, plus scratches as available and comments on each of the horses making up the program: https://www.drf.com/race-entries/track/OP/country/USA/date/05-04-2019
McPeek, Joseph, Jr., talk Oaklawn Invitational: https://www.drf.com/news/preview/preakness-berth-grabs-oaklawn-invitational?type=track-news
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