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‘We Like Racing At Remington Park': Coal Battle To Run In Oklahoma Derby
'We Like Racing At Remington Park': Coal Battle To Run In Oklahoma Derby originally appeared on Paulick Report.
Norman Stables LLC's Coal Battle will try to sweep Oklahoma's premier races for his generation when he returns for the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park on Sept. 28. He won the track's Springboard Mile, a points race for the Kentucky Derby, by a half length last Racing Form reports that the son of Coal Front is currently being freshened at Ellis Park following his runner-up finish in the G3 Indiana Derby and a third in the G3 Matt Winn.
'We decided to give him 60 days off, and I think Lonnie, if everything goes according to plan, he's going to run him in the Oklahoma Derby at the end of September,' owner Robert Norman told Daily Racing Form, while adding that the colt, 'likes the surface and we like racing at Remington Park.'After winning last year's Springboard Mile in Oklahoma City, Okla., the Lonnie Briley trainee won the Smarty Jones Stakes and G2 Rebel at Oaklawn Park, before losses in the G1 Arkansas Derby and Kentucky for the Oklahoma Derby close on Thursday, Sept. more at
This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Aug 20, 2025, where it first appeared.
