Rebel card crammed with six-figure races
Santa Anita Park in California promotes its product as the Great Race Place. For one February Saturday, Oaklawn should challenge that claim.
Santa Anita Park in California promotes its product as the Great Race Place. For one February Saturday, Oaklawn should challenge that claim.
Second- and third-place horses in the Risen Star Stakes might have an Oaklawn race ahead on the road to the Triple Crown. Winner Sierra Leone likely does not.
If a Caitlin Clark had come along in my college years, who would have heard that tree falling in yon forest?
Not many horses with a Minnesota birth certificate find success in Hot Springs.
Two fillies with similar names, one foaled in Kentucky and the other in the owners' native Minnesota, represent trainer Mac Robertson in today's $150,000 Dixie…
Some horses one wanted to see next week in Hot Springs are running today in New Orleans.
Eric Musselman worked the SEC officials in the first half Wednesday night like someone reading from the Bill Self playbook against Texas Tech.
If basketball represents competitive shopping for the average sports fan, February is a month of blue-light specials. As our late friend Phil Skaggs phrased it…
The Presidents Day card at Oaklawn Monday does not contain a stakes race, but one need not wait long for another at the track.
Bob Wisener
A basketball rematch between Benton and Lake Hamilton seldom has taken on such importance.
In the by-now common walkthrough of players and coaches that other sports adopted from hockey, Eric Musselman looked Saturday like someone who escaped with his…
A trainer whose career victories total in five figures and a jockey who after Friday needs more than one hand to count his wins formed major storylines at Oakl…
Since arriving in Hot Springs, Ricardo Santana Jr. has owned what horsemen call the "three path" at Oaklawn.
I was not yet 9 and living in Glenwood, Mrs. Thrash dutifully teaching third grade, when the Beatles invaded America. Asked for a world view, I would not be on…
Valentine Candy today seeks an Oaklawn stakes hat trick that didn't exist when he was born Feb. 14, 2021.
It did not go unnoticed that Lake Hamilton entered the boys' top 10 in Erick Taylor's weekly basketball poll in the state newspaper.
Admittedly filtering his selections, Bloodhorse writer Byron King rated juvenile champion Fierceness higher than the horse that beat the 2-year-old champion Sa…
The Fierceness bandwagon might be reduced after his 3-year-old debut, but the male juvenile champion still leads the Kentucky Derby points standings compiled b…
Singer and sportsman Toby Keith will be remembered as a country-music giant even if the average record-buyer is stumped to name any horses he raced.
If you've become Rip Van Winkle-weary of Razorback athletics -- if you're in Howard Beale country, which is to say "mad as hell" about football and basketball,…
The Southwest Stakes winner may be seen again, trainer Ken McPeek said, in the March 30 Arkansas Derby, Oaklawn's oldest and richest race.
This is the time of year that a Kentucky Derby-winning trainer might ask where in this town one could find good high-school basketball.
HOT SPRINGS -- Mystik Dan, whose sire won the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile twice, is poised to make Ken McPeek a first-time winner in the race that every horseman c…
A woodwind solo heralds the opening bars of arguably the greatest song in American history, which soon observes its centenary.
HOT SPRINGS -- If not already, Skelly worked his way into discussion among the best sprinters seen at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort with his seventh consecutive…
Through no fault of its own, the Southwest Stakes this year is denied the national prominence it might receive had not Mother Nature intervened.
Named for the wife of the first U.S. president, Oaklawn's Martha Washington Stakes is remembered mainly when its winner or another starter steps out in bigger …
Comparative turned out the winner in a Grade 3 stake Friday that she briefly appeared a certain loser.
The King Cotton Stakes is named not for a current U.S. senator from Arkansas but the longtime cash crop of the Natural State.
Nolan Richardson had a stretch of games at Arkansas like Eric Musselman is going through in his fourth season on the Razorback bench.
Jan. 25 marked the 44th anniversary that I reported to work at 300 Spring St. and that soon after appeared living, breathing journalism under my byline.
Because of an equine overbite, Bayakoa often charged to the wire with her tongue hanging out of the side of her mouth.
Strength to a personal caregiver who, when asked on Monday, knew which two teams are playing in the Super Bowl Feb, 11.
No matter their foal date or place of birth, horses arriving in 2021 have one thing in common: This is their only chance to win the Kentucky Derby.
Arkansas' women's basketball team is closer to playing in the NCAA tournament than the school's men's squad.
The 59th Southwest Stakes loses little glitter even with Oaklawn's Smarty Jones winner sitting it out.
It was almost asking too much of Arkansas' basketball program to have ESPN in town with its GameDay program for Saturday's meeting with Kentucky.
At retirement age for many workers, Bill Mott is finding his second wind as a thoroughbred horse trainer.
Robertino Diodoro, the track's two-time training champion, offered a familiar face to Oaklawn racegoers in the $150,000 Fifth Season Stakes on Saturday if his …
These things happen in Hollywood, the entertainment capital of the world, though one reason it's so clean, as quintessential New York worshipper Woody Allen sa…
Other than losing the defending champion and original program favorite, the $150,000 Fifth Season Stakes today at Oaklawn looks formful.
The chance to see the Kentucky Wildcats in uniform, if only to hiss at coach John Calipari, might be sufficient reason to attend Saturday's game in Bud Walton …
The news this week about Bob Baffert and the Kentucky Derby comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the Hall of Fame trainer's ongoing crusade against the…
Increasingly an afterthought this basketball season, the Arkansas Razorbacks look to spend stretches of March at home or in some lesser postseason tournament.
JD Plumlee's career as a head football coach began in his hometown. It now leads to Pulaski County, the state's largest.
Some of my prime moments covering University of Arkansas women's basketball involved games against LSU when Hall of Fame coaches Gary Blair and the late Sue Gu…
Academy Award nominations become the main topic of information at Spago and other Hollywood hot spots where those in the know dish the daily dirt.
The first day of the Arkansas sports fan's week offered little or no Oaklawn racing for the third consecutive Sunday, prompting stall-walking and channel-flipp…
Steve Asmussen has another Kentucky Derby contender, something that happens with the frequency of a 365-day calendar year or a weekday, like Derby, ending in "…