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Borel to ride top filly in Oaklawn $150K Honeybee

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HOT SPRINGS (AP) - Jockey Calvin Borel will make his next attempt at his 5,000th win aboard Rose to Gold in the $150,000 Honeybee at Oaklawn Park.

Borel didn't have any winners over the weekend. Rose to Gold is a Kentucky Oaks and Fantasy Stakes prospect, and Borel will ride her on March 9 in Hot Springs.

The filly placed in the Feb. 9 Martha Washington Stakes in her first start of the year.

Trainer Sal Santoro said Wednesday that Borel would pick up the mount in favor of Florida-based jockeys that had ridden Rose to Gold in her last five starts.

Santoro says he wanted a rider familiar with Oaklawn, where Borel has twice been leading rider.

Borel has been stuck on 4,999 wins since breaking a wrist last month.

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