HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – A significant change in the national trainer ranks begins on Thursday at Oaklawn Park, where Tom Amoss hands over the reins of his prominent stable to his longtime assistant, Kinnon LaRose. LaRose will have his first starters as a head trainer on a card that features a $52,482 carryover in the pick six. The $1 bet covers races 4-9. Oaklawn will start about 15 minutes later than usual, rolling out a new first post time of 12:45 p.m. Central. It will be in place for the remainder of the meet, unless otherwise announced, according to Zack Gillham, the vice president of racing and wagering for Oaklawn. Amoss announced plans to transition from training to an advisory role by April 1. He said he will, however, have just one more start as a trainer. According to Daily Racing Form statistics, Amoss has won 4,278 races – 58 of them graded stakes – from 17,530 career starts for stable earnings of $132 million. “I will run one horse the last couple weeks at Oaklawn because it’s required to be eligible for the trainer bonus,” Amoss said of an incentive program at Oaklawn. “I’ll run one more horse. It will be in late April.” :: Live racing action at Oaklawn Park! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Amoss is looking forward to LaRose launching his head training career. “I wanted to give back and to be able to help a very talented horseman get his start,” Amoss said. “I’m excited about it. The thing I’ve always done is I’ve tried to be honorable in how I’ve handled my business and I’ve always tried to put the horse first, and those are two things that are instilled in Kinnon.” LaRose’s first starter, My Noble Knight, runs in the second race. It’s a $12,500 starter allowance for 4-year-olds and up over 1 1/8 miles. My Noble Knight could start as second or third choice to probable favorite Bright Spark. La Rose has Revel Toast in the third race for Joel Politi, but Amoss said the filly will be scratched. She has become ineligible for the nonwinners-of-two-lifetime sprint after being elevated to first from second in a November allowance from which the winner was disqualified from purse money, according to past performances. “Revel Toast was entered about 10 days ago and we scratched and we re-entered,” Amoss said. “In that period of time, apparently, there was a horse disqualified. She was put up to first. We were never notified, Dr. Politi was never notified, and Oaklawn was never notified, so they took the entry. I don’t want this to look like this was Kinnon’s fault. It wasn’t. It wasn’t Oaklawn’s fault. They wouldn’t have taken the entry if they had learned about it. So, nobody knew.” LaRose’s other starter on the card comes in the featured eighth with Spa Prospector. She was third in last year’s Grade 3 Adirondack at Saratoga and is making her first start since November in the first-level allowance for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs. Spa Prospector, a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Praying, will be ridden by Ramon Vazquez. Little Miss Curlin could go favored as a stakes winner who is 4 for 5. Jareth Loveberry has the mount for trainer Pat Devereux. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.