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JOCKEY DAVID CABRERA OUTDUELS ERIK ASMUSSEN IN BATTLE FOR FIRST PLACE IN REMINGTON PARK STANDINGS, FIVE WINS TO FOUR
For Immediate Release
Saturday, August 29, 2026
by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY – Jockey David Cabrera won the last three races on the card Saturday night at Remington Park after Erik Asmussen laid down the gauntlet with four wins; Cabrera’s final three gave him the nightlong battle with a total of five notches on his belt.
The two riders hooked horns like a couple of battering rams on a mountain to fight it out for first place in the rider standings. Together they pocketed nine of the 10 trips to the winner’s circle on Saturday night’s card. Lane Luzzi was the only other jockey to win a race the entire evening.
While Cabrera took five different trainers to the winner’s circle with his victorious horses, one of Erik’s four wins on Saturday night summed up his evening perfectly – Trust Daddy in the fifth race. All four of Erik’s wins came for his dad and trainer, Steve Asmussen’s barn as the family pair dominated action.
Erik actually moved into a tie with Cabrera at six wins apiece when he won his fourth of the night. That must have been a wakeup call for Cabrera. He came right back with three consecutive wins to move three in front of Erik (9-6), taking the eighth, ninth and 10th races.
Erik came out of the jockeys’ quarters firing on all cylinders. He booted his first winner of the night home by six lengths in the first race, taking Cloud Number Nine ($3.80 to win) to the winner’s circle at 4-5 odds. He followed that with victories with Trust Daddy (2-1, $6.40), Nucleus (2-1, $6.60) in the sixth, and Mi Amiga (3-5, $3.20) in the seventh. All are trained by his father, who has won the training title at Remington Park an unprecedented 20 times in his career.
Cabrera then took the challenge from Erik to heart, winning the eighth race of the night aboard Lit Up (7-1, $17.20), the ninth at the wire with Bertani (6-5, $4.60), and the 10th with Dbook (4-1, $10.20). That culminated a five-win night for the former top rider at Remington Park.
Cabrera also made trips to the winner’s circle with Prisoner (5-2 favorite, $7.60) in the third race and Cajun Stoops (2-5 favorite, $2.80) in the fourth.
Cabrera’s wins came for trainers Justin Evans, Joe Offolter, Bret Calhoun, Todd Fincher, and Austin Gustafson respectively.
Both Asmussen and Cabrera passed three jockeys who were tied for first place going into the fifth night of racing at Remington Park this meet – Ramon Vazquez, Stewart Elliott and Jose Alvarez – who were all shut out on the evening. They each had five wins when the night started and still do.
Cabrera’s winners Saturday with their owners and breeders were:
Prisoner (won by a head) – owner David Bernsen of Las Vegas, and breeder from Kentucky Buck Pond Farm.
Cajun Stoops (won by 2-1/2 lengths) – owner Bryan Hawk of Shawnee, Okla., and breeder from Oklahoma Nona Buley.
Lit Up (won by one length) – owners Kat Kirk and Wayne R. Sanders of Dallas, Texas, and breeder from Kentucky Andrew N. Warren.
Bertani (won by a neck) – owners Scott Dilworth and Randy Andrews of San Antonio, Texas, and breeder from Ontario, Josham Farms Limited.
Dbook (won by three-quarters of a length) – owners Millard R. Seldin Revocable Trust, and breeder from Kentucky, John Oxley.
Asmussen’s winners Saturday with their owners and breeders were:
Cloud Number Nine (won by six lengths) – owner Steve Asmussen of Arlington, Texas, and breeders from Kentucky, Nancy Vanier and Lydia Williamson.
Trust Daddy (won by 3-3/4 lengths) – owner Steve Asmussen and breeders from Kentucky, Gainesway Thoroughbreds and Marylou Whitney Stables.
Nucleus (won by three-quarters of a length) – owners Clark Brewster and Ken Reimer of Tulsa, Okla., and breeder from Oklahoma, Bryan Hawk.
Mi Amiga (won by 5-1/4 lengths) – owner Benjamin Gase of Dallas, Texas, and breeders from Kentucky, Pedro J. Gonzalez and Lenny Kohn.
Remington Park racing now moves into a new month with action Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 3-5. The first race nightly is 6:30pm-Central.
Caption: Jockey David Cabrera rode five winners on Saturday, August 29, 2026 at Remington Park to launch to the lead of the rider standings with nine victories after the fifth night of the young season.
Credit: Coady Media
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LONGEST SHOT BUCK PIE, WINS COLTS & GELDINGS DIVISION OF OKLAHOMA STALLION HANDICAP AT 57-1 ODDS
For Immediate Release
Friday, August 28, 2026
by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY – Buck Pie was totally ignored by everyone at Remington Park except his jockey, Jose Alvarez. When all was said and done, Alvarez had produced a winner in the colts and geldings division of the $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Handicap at 57-1 odds. It was the longest odds in a short six-horse field.
“Nobody is more surprised than I am,” said owner-breeder Bryan Hawk of Shawnee, Okla. “We had two horses in the field and I really thought the 6-horse (C W Dazzle) might be the one. Jose just did a great job.”
Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer Joe Offolter trains both C W Dazzle and Buck Pie and he was thinking along the same lines as his owner.
“I did not expect (Buck Pie) to run the way he did,” said Offolter. “Jose rode him perfectly and he told me before the race, ‘there’s a lot of speed in here. I think I’ll just sit back and see what happens in front of us and see what we can do.’ “
What they did was come from dead last in the pack of six horses and flew down the stretch, passing all the fading speed, to draw off to a 3-1/2 length win at seven furlongs on the fast main track.
Buck Pie became the second horse of the night to pay more than $100 to win on a $2 ticket. Buck Pie, a 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred gelded son of Pass the Buck, from the Candy Ride (ARG) mare Sugar Pie, paid $116.20 to win, $17.60 to place and $5.60 to show, covering the distance in 1:24.14 on the fast track. Earlier in the evening, Connie’scalculator went off at 66-1 and paid $135.40 to win.
Buck Pie rallied into early fractions of :22.68 for the first quarter-mile, :45.88 for the half-mile, and 1:11.17 for three-quarters of a mile. Buck Pie earned $30,000 for the victory and improved to eight starts, three wins, and one second for $63,331 in lifetime earnings. It was his first stakes win, in his first race after more than three months off after running seventh in a handicap at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., on May 2.
“When I asked him to run at the three-eighths, he began to run and gave me everything he had,” said Alvarez.
It was the first win in the colts and geldings division of the Oklahoma Stallion Handicap for colts/geldings for all the connections. Buck Pie was followed in second by How About Bob (1-5 betting favorite), I Am What I Am (7-2) third, C W Dazzle (7-1) fourth, Flashout (15-1) fifth and Sandthefloor (9-1) sixth.
The Oklahoma Stallion Handicap is restricted to 3-year-old progeny of stallions registered with the Oklahoma Stallion registrar.
Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Aug. 29 with the first race at 6:30pm-Central.
Caption: Buck Pie rolls to a longshot win in the Oklahoma Stallion Handicap for colts and geldings, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 at Remington Park. Jose Alvarez was up for the score.
Credit: Coady Media
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