Lone Sailor, Dr. Dorr square off in optional-claiming feature

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Lone Sailor will be making a meaningful distance move Sunday, when he meets fellow graded stakes winner Dr. Dorr in the featured ninth race at Oaklawn Park.

The optional $75,000 claiming route over 1 1/16 miles has drawn a full field of 12. Other stakes winners in the race include Guest Suite, Two Thirty Five, Shang, and Tone Broke.

The card Sunday comprises 10 races and drew 115 horses. Post for the first race is 1 p.m. Central.

Lone Sailor is shortening up from 1 1/8 miles on Sunday, and the last time he raced at this distance he was an allowance winner Jan. 31 at Oaklawn. Lone Sailor caught Bruder Bob by a neck and the next day winning trainer Tom Amoss was quick to laud the ride by jockey Joe Talamo.

“He’s a strong finisher on a horse,” Amoss said, adding Talamo was the “difference-maker” in the race at Oaklawn.

Talamo again has the mount on Sunday from post 11.

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Lone Sailor, winner of the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby in 2018, races for G M B Racing. He enters off a troubled eighth-place finish in the Grade 2 New Orleans Classic on March 21 at Fair Grounds.

Dr. Dorr was the runner-up in an optional $62,500 claiming race at a mile at Santa Anita in his last start March 21. Earlier in his career, he won the Grade 2 Californian in 2018 at Santa Anita. Trainer Bob Baffert has given the mount to Tyler Baze. Dr. Dorr, who races for Jill Baffert, will break from post 9.

Two Thirty Five is cutting back from 1 1/4 miles as he exits the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap on March 7. He finished seventh, one start after running second in Santa Anita’s Grade 2 San Pasqual. Orlando Mojica has the mount from post 2 for trainer Richard Baltas.