Spring showers in the morning and overcast clouds in the afternoon did its best to try and dampen the mood April 18 at Oaklawn Park, but with a heavyweight battle looming toward the end of the card in the $1.25 million Oaklawn Handicap (G2), lessening the excitement was purely impossible.
The buzz built and built as the crowd filtered in throughout the day, and all the anticipation built into a roar from 35,000 fans as three horses—representing crowns from the Kentucky Derby (G1), Preakness Stakes (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1), and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)—were lined across the track at the quarter pole. When that final quarter-mile finished, it was the 7-year-old White Abarrio who taught the younger 4-year-olds, Sovereignty and Journalism , how it’s done.
White Abarrio, gr/ro, 7/h…