Oaklawn Park will offer $1 million in stakes races Feb. 20, and trainer Steve Asmussen will be attacking the program. He said Wednesday that Gun Runner is on deck for the Grade 3, $500,000 Razorback Handicap and Lookin At Lee and Hence are being pointed for the Grade 3, $500,000 Southwest Stakes.

Oaklawn is putting the races on the same card for the first time. The track also made changes to the Razorback this year, boosting the purse by $150,000 and moving the race previously run in March to February.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Chanel’s Legacy, who will be seeking her second stakes win of the Oaklawn Park meet on Saturday in the $125,000 Martha Washington, is the latest quality runner for the longtime owner-trainer team of Allen Poindexter and Lynn Chleborad.

Through the years, Poindexter and Chleborad have won stakes with such horses as American Sugar, Bad Moon, Esperanza, Excessive, and Phoenican Moon.

Chleborad said she came to know Poindexter through one of her owners, Betsy McQueary. Both Poindexter and McQueary have ties to Springfield, Mo.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With an impending storm likely to interrupt training for at least two mornings, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin moved up workouts for his pair of fillies who are targeting the Grade 2, $300,000 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel on Feb. 18.

Takrees, the winner of the Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 22, worked a half-mile in 51.16 seconds over the Belmont Park training track. She went her first quarter in 25.91 seconds and her second quarter in 25.25.

Clothes Fall Off, fifth in the Interborough, worked a half-mile in 50.54.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Mike Hushion will send out Iron Power against probable odds-on favorite Send It In in Saturday’s $100,000 Haynesfield for New York-breds going 1 1/16 miles.

Iron Power, a 7-year-old gelding by Mizzen Mast, had gone more than two years without racing on dirt when he finished sixth behind Send It In in the Alex M. Robb on Dec. 31. His previous 12 races had been on turf.

Hushion said he put Iron Power back on dirt in the Robb because he was relatively fresh, having run just twice previously in 2016, “and was training super on the dirt.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Mike Hushion will be looking for his seventh victory in the Hollie Hughes Stakes on Saturday at Aqueduct when he sends out Loki’s Vengeance against eight others in the $100,000, six-furlong stakes restricted to New York-breds.

Hushion’s first Hollie Hughes winner came in 1998 with Thepromonroe. He then won three straight with Papua (2003-05) and then won it again with Rereadthefootnotes (2010) and Captain Serious (2015).

“It’s fun,” Hushion said. “I wouldn’t say it’s pride.”

A trio of very competitive stakes was drawn here at Gulfstream Park on Wednesday for Saturday’s card, topped by the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap and the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap.

The nine-furlong Gulfstream Park Turf lured the top three finishers – Flatlined, Almanaar, and Divisidero – from the 1 1/16-mile Fort Lauderdale here last month. They will face an imposing group of contenders that includes last year’s Turf winner, Luke’s Alley; Grade 1 winner Beach Patrol; All Included, third in this race a year ago; and the multiple Grade 3 winner War Correspondent.

A handful of horses – all healthy – remain in isolation in temporary tents on the Fair Grounds property, but otherwise, the equine herpesvirus scare that briefly threatened to ruin the track’s racing season basically is over.

Gun Runner has been training throughout the winter at Fair Grounds, but on Wednesday, trainer Steve Asmussen put him on a van to Oaklawn Park, where Gun Runner will make his 4-year-old debut in the $500,000 Razorback Handicap on Monday, Feb. 20.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Although tempted to launch Three Rules’s 3-year-old campaign in the Grade 2 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park last weekend, trainer Jose Pinchin stuck to his original plan and began the year on a more conservative note in the seven-furlong Swale.

And despite seeing Three Rules drop a three-quarter-length decision to Favorable Outcome in the Grade 2 Swale and then watching 2-year-old male champion Classic Empire disappoint in the 1 1/16-mile Holy Bull, Pinchin does not regret his decision.

Sippin, who is undefeated in seven starts, was among a handful of horses who received divisional honors from the New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association last week in Albuquerque. Sippin was the leading 2-year-old New Mexico-bred filly for 2016 after winning all six of her starts last year.

Her dam, Samba Queen, was recognized as the broodmare of the year. Sippin races for her breeder, R.D. Hubbard.