Agent "Big Steve" Krajcir, of Hot Springs, is 67 and represents former Oaklawn Park riding champions Jon Court, 58, and Calvin Borel, 52.
The seasoned trio scored a double Saturday, with Court guiding Triple Crown nominee Market King ($8.60) to a three-quarter length maiden victory in the fifth race for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Borel won the eighth race, an allowance sprint for older fillies and mares, by three-quarters of a length aboard Paintergone ($56.60) for owner/trainer Clay Loetscher.
"It was a great day," Krajcir said Sunday morning.
Paintergone marked the 954th career Oaklawn victory for Borel, who won local riding titles in 1995 and 2001 and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2013. Market King was the 673rd career Oaklawn victory for Court, Oaklawn's leading rider in 2000.
Court said Sunday morning that he "feels great" and has no thoughts of retirement.
"I'd like to bow out gracefully at the designated time, but I think I'll leave it the Lord's hands," Court said. "I don't know what 58 feels like, but it feels pretty damn good.
"I know some people who are 58 feel like I should be done because that's the way they feel. I've heard that since I was 50."
Borel and Court ranked 27th and 65th in North American career victories with 5,223 and 4,133, respectively, through Tuesday, according to Equibase, racing's official data gathering organization.
Jockey Stewart Elliott is the special guest for Saturday's Dawn at Oaklawn, a weekly question and answer session hosted by Oaklawn paddock analyst Nancy Holthus.
Holthus is scheduled to interview Elliott, best known for guiding Smarty Jones to within a length of the Triple Crown in 2004, at 8:30 a.m. on the south grandstand apron. Elliott, who relocated to the Midwest this year to be closer to his Kentucky home, won Oaklawn's Southwest, Rebel and Arkansas Derby aboard Smarty Jones, who was named the country's champion 3-year-old male.
The free weekly program runs 7:30-9:30 a.m. and features barn tours and complimentary pastries and coffee.
Multiple Oaklawn stakes winner Havre de Grace and Oaklawn stakes winner Blind Luck are among nine finalists -- five horses, three trainers and one jockey -- for the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's 2019 Hall of Fame ballot.
Trained by Larry Jones, Havre de Grace wintered at Oaklawn in 2011 and won the Azeri Stakes and Apple Blossom Handicap for older fillies and mares en route to Horse of the Year honors.
Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Blind Luck won the Fantasy Stakes in 2010 at Oaklawn and was named the country's champion 3-year-old filly that year. She ran second to Havre de Grace in the 2011 Azeri.
Sports on 02/15/2019