Who won in the Hot Springs, AR Rebel Stakes?”
The Rebel Stakes is a Gr 2 American horse race contested in March each year at Oaklawn Park Racetrack in Hot Springs, Arkansas over 1 1/16 miles on dirt. It’s open to three-year-old thoroughbreds which makes it an ideal prep race for the Kentucky Derby. It currently offers a purse of $300,000. As the second leg of the Oaklawn Park stakes program for three-year-olds, the Rebel Stakes follows the $250,000 Southwest Stakes (Gr 3) in February and precedes the $1,000,000 Arkansas Derby (Gr 2) in April. This program regularly attracts the best three-year-olds from Arkansas and beyond. Inaugurated in 1961, the Rebel Stakes has yielded a number of talented winners over the years, one of the most recent being champion Kentucky-bred colt Curlin. Curlin won this race in 2007 and went on to finish third behind race winner Street Sense and second place finisher Hard Spun in that year’s Kentucky Derby. In November 2007, the American Graded Stakes Committee upgraded the Rebels Stakes from a Gr 3 to a
