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Count Fleet Sprint Handicap (G3) Official website. Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, [1] formerly Oaklawn Park Race Track, is an American thoroughbred racetrack and casino in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is the home to "The Racing Festival of the South", a four-day series of races that concludes with the Arkansas Derby. [2]
Historical data indicates a track called Sportsman’s Park was operating in the late 1890s. Essex Park, adjacent to a major train route from Malvern to Hot Springs, opened on Malvern Road in 1904. Even Little Rock, 50 miles northeast of Hot Springs, had a race meet. By 1920, Oaklawn was the only track still standing.
Who We Are. Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, located in beautiful Hot Springs, Arkansas, has a storied history as one of the premier Thoroughbred racetracks in the country since 1904. A $100 million expansion completed in 2021 introduced a whole new level of luxury. With a hotel and plenty of meeting space in addition to racing, gaming, dining ...
Apr 22, 2021 · ST. LOUIS — The Cella family, the St. Louis-based owners of the Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs, Arkansas, has wrapped up a $100 million-plus expansion at the facility. Oaklawn on ...
Jun 16, 2023 · Anthony, Isabel Burton. “Happy Birthday Oaklawn Jockey Club: Oaklawn Park Celebrates a Century of Thoroughbred Racing.” The Record 45 (2004): 1–15. Brown, Dee A. The American Spa: Hot Springs Arkansas. Little Rock: Rose Publishing Company, 1982. Nelson, Rex. “There’s More Than One Way to Race: The Evolution of Oaklawn Park.”
Nov 20, 2018 · HOT SPRINGS -- The owner of Oaklawn Racing & Gaming on Monday announced a plan to spend more than $100 million the next two years to build a 200-room hotel and expand its casino by 28,000 square feet.
It also owns Busch's Grove, long a restaurant and more recently a grocery store. Cella was a member of the third generation to head the Cella family's Oaklawn Jockey Club Inc., which owns and operates Oaklawn Park Race Track racetrack in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He took over as its president in 1968 on the death of his father, John G. Cella.
