• Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
E-Mail Us Now
  • Upcoming Races
  • Latest News
    • Barn Notes
  • Features
    • Correll’s Corner
    • Race Selections
    • View from the Grandstand
    • Stakes Recap
    • Road to the Cup
    • Triple Crown Trail
    • Kentucky Derby Trail
  • Handicapping
    • Rick Francis – EDITOR
    • Matt Pappis – Handicapping
    • Bob Hill – Handicapping
  • Racing Links
BREAKING NEWS
2025.05.29 Oaklawn Racing Update
Gulfstream: Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $75,000-NY ‘Bug’ Elliott Makes Another Winning Trip to Gulfstream
Oaklawn Announces Leadership Changes in Racing & Wagering
Gulfstream: Biancone: Lennilu ‘The Right Horse’ for Royal Ascot
Belmont Park to host 2027 Breeders’ Cup World Championships
BREEDERS’ CUP ANNOUNCES RETURN OF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TO KEENELAND
Belmont at the Big A Notes
Santa Anita Stable Notes Monday, May 26, 2025
Gulfstream: Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Yields Multiple $31,481 Payoffs
Spaliday dazzles with last to first rally to win Sunday’s Miss Liberty Stakes at Monmouth Park

2025.05.06 Oaklawn Racing Updates

Posted On 07 May 2025
By : admin
Comment: 0

Racing Press Release
Compiled by Robert Yates

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Multiple Oaklawn stakes winner Haulin Ice moved closer to breaking Nodouble’s 55-year-old record for career earnings by a registered Arkansas-bred with a victory in the $175,000 Vagrancy Stakes (G3) for older fillies and mares at 6 ½ furlongs Sunday at Aqueduct.

Haulin Ice edged stablemate R Disaster by a neck to secure her first career graded stakes victory and push her lifetime earnings to $784,350. Nodouble, a two-time champion, completed his racing career in 1970 with $846,749 in earnings, still an all-time record for an accredited Arkansas-bred.

Haulin Ice was scratched from the $1 million Derby City Distaff Stakes (G1) at seven furlongs Saturday at Churchill Downs in favor of the Vagrancy, which was her third consecutive victory.

Hall of Famer John Velazquez rode Haulin Ice ($6) for Florida-based trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., who had a small string this season at Oaklawn and won seven of 17 starts. Three of the victories belonged to Haulin Ice, a speedy 4-year-old gray daughter of millionaire Oaklawn stakes winner Coal Front.

Haulin Ice became the leading accredited Arkansas-bred female money winner in history with a front-running five-length victory against open company in the $250,000 Matron Stakes for older fillies and mares March 29 at Oaklawn. Haulin Ice ($688,100) surpassed the now-retired Connie K, who earned $620,612 in a 28-race career from 2021-2024.

Haulin Ice, in her previous two Oaklawn starts, breezed to a six-length victory against overmatched state-breds in the $150,000 Downthedustyroad Breeders’ Stakes March 1 and beat open allowance company Dec. 22. All three victories were at six furlongs.

Haulin Ice has a 6-2-0 record in eight lifetime starts at Oaklawn, with earnings of $612,050.

The Vagrancy was the fourth career stakes victory and third in open company for Haulin Ice, who races for C2 Racing Stable (brothers Clint and Mark Cornett), Paul Braverman, Miller Racing (Myron Miller) and Timothy Pinch. Haulin Ice’s winning time over a fast track was 1:16.10.

Haulin Ice made her first five career starts at the 2023-2024 Oaklawn meeting for trainer Lindsay Schultz before being sold privately last spring and transferred to Joseph. In addition to the Vagrancy, Matron and Downthedustyroad, Haulin Ice won the $75,000 Azalea Stakes at seven furlongs July 13 at Gulfstream Park, which marked her second start for Joseph.

Overall, Haulin Ice has an 8-3-0 record from 14 lifetimes. Nodouble, the 1968 Arkansas Derby winner and the country’s champion older horse in 1969 and 1970, won 13 of 42 career starts.

Haulin Ice originally raced for her breeder, Arkansan Eugenia Thompson-Benight, and was named the 2024 Arkansas-bred Horse of the Year by the Arkansas Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Horsemen’s Association.

Finish Lines

There were 397 claims totaling $8,014,500 during the 62-day Oaklawn meeting that concluded Saturday, according to figures released by the track. … Jockey Chel-c Bailey, Oaklawn’s champion apprentice in 2021-2022, said she has been transitioning to the technology world by working remotely for a “branch of Microsoft,” adding her riding career is on hold because she wants to become a project manager. Bailey hasn’t ridden since Feb. 3 at Oaklawn. She worked as an exercise rider this season at Oaklawn for trainer Mac Robertson. Bailey has 66 career victories, including 41 at Oaklawn. Her first career victory came Feb. 28, 2020, at Oaklawn. … Trainer Norman McKnight, who makes Oaklawn and Woodbine his year-round circuit, has 991 career North American victories (United States and Canada), according to Equibase, racing’s official data gathering organization. McKnight has 87 career Oaklawn victories, the first coming in 2018. He won nine races this season at Oaklawn. Woodbine is Canada’s premier racing venue.

 

About the Author
  • google-share
Previous Story

Preakness 150: UAE Derby Runner-Up Heart of Honor on Course for Preakness Run

Next Story

Air Force Red, Lovesick Blues Set For Rematch In Saturday’s Siren Lure Stakes Santa Anita

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

*
*

SPONSORS

Search Our Website

Archives

Categories

Recent Posts

  • 2025.05.29 Oaklawn Racing Update
  • Gulfstream: Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $75,000-NY ‘Bug’ Elliott Makes Another Winning Trip to Gulfstream
  • Oaklawn Announces Leadership Changes in Racing & Wagering

Site Login

Website Login
© Trackside View. All Rights Reserved. Design by Gatorwebs Creative.