Oaklawn Opens with Dixie Belle Stakes
The start of the 2014 winter meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, gives simulcast bettors one more option for their wagering choices. Those looking to catch the action on Friday’s opening day will focus on the $100,000 Dixie Belle Stakes for three-year-old fillies going six furlongs in the dirt. The race has drawn a field of nine entries, with the heavy favorite being More Than Beauty, listed at 8-5. A Kentucky-bred daughter of More Than Ready, she’ll be making her fifth career start, coming into this after a four-month layoff.
Top two have both had good recent form
After breaking her maiden at first asking at Churchill last May, she then ran second in the Debutante Stakes, then went to Prairie Meadows as the favorite and finished a disappointing fifth in the Prairie Gold Lassie Stakes after stumbling coming out of the gate. After a break of six weeks, she has come back to win a mid-level AOC race at Churchill last time out. Second choice here at 5-2 is Street Story, the runner-up three weeks ago in the Letellier Memorial Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Others are in with a good shot
Listed as the co-third choice at 6-1 in the ML, Oklahoma-bred Xray Vision is a daughter of multiple graded-stakes winner Pollard’s Vision, and has finished in the money in all five of her career starts, all five coming at Remington Park. She has a pair of wins on her record, and was third last out in the Trapeze Stakes. At 12-1, Silver Valley could have a say in the outcome before all is said and done. Although she only has two wins in five starts, and the first of those was in her maiden debut, she has run in four straight stakes events, winning the Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies Stakes in mid-summer.
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