Trainer Young expands presence at Oaklawn

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Scott Young, the former jockey who has won the last two training titles at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., has expanded his presence at Oaklawn.

Young has 20 horses on the grounds this meet, double the normal for the barn. Young’s top local prospects include P C Cowboy, a dead-heat winner of an allowance route last month at Oaklawn, and Jerrid, winner of the Prairie Meadows Mile in June.

Young has another 30 horses in training in Oklahoma for the Will Rogers meet, which opens March 12.

“I picked up some clients that wanted to come over and run,” he said. “I’ve also got a lot of guys that wanted to claim.”

Young, 32, retired from race riding in 2011. He won his first race as a trainer on March 12, 2012, at Will Rogers. He has since compiled a record of 304 wins from 1,412 starts, for stable earnings of more than $5.4 million, according to Daily Racing Form statistics.

“I walked away from riding because I had an opportunity to start training for the right people,” Young said.

P C Cowboy is a 4-year-old by Archarcharch who ran fourth to Cedartown in the $200,000 Zia Park Derby last November. He was a 2 3/4-length winner of an Oaklawn allowance Jan. 21 and for the effort earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 91.

“He’s got one condition left to run through, and then we’ll start looking at stakes,” Young said.

Young’s stable also includes a number of promising Oklahoma-breds.