Oaklawn

HOT SPRINGS—I walked all over Oaklawn's facilities for 36:05 this afternoon to interrupt the writing of advance stories for tomorrow's Apple Blossom and Count Fleet Sprint Handicaps, a race story about today's Rainbow and Rainbow Miss Stakes, and a feature on a very friendly, talented jockey named Joe Talamo. The doors to the Oaklawn Jockey Club were locked.
It feels like Saturday.
I wonder. Would any of Pete's leads today make any non-sports fan consider reading on?

PETE PERKINS

HOT SPRINGS — People responsible for the Grade I $600,000 1-mile-and-1/16th Apple Blossom Handicap, Oaklawn’s top feature for its fan-free Racing Festival of the South, share common thoughts that have little to do with fillies and mares, four-years-old and up.

HOT SPRINGS — Whitmore, owned in part by Robert LaPenta and Ron Moquett, will run today with a chance to once again expand his legacy at Oaklawn.

HOT SPRINGS — He hadn’t yet nailed down the specifics, but Joe Talamo knew by the age of eight what he wanted from life.

HOT SPRINGS — It always seems appropriate when owners and trainers from Arkansas are connected to an Oaklawn race-day feature.