Alternation wins the 2012 Governor's Cup.
Photo: Dustin Orona Photography
Alternation wins the 2012 Governor's Cup.
Photo: Dustin Orona Photography
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Mathea Kelley
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Dave Harmon
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Skip Dickstein
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Rick Samuels
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Mathea Kelley
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Chad Harmon
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Chad Harmon
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Chad Harmon
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Skip Dickstein
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Skip Dickstein
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Rick Samuels
Alternation wins the 2012 Pimlico Special.
Photo: Mathea Kelley
Alternation wins the 2012 Oaklawn Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Oaklawn Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Oaklawn Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Oaklawn Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Oaklawn Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Razorback Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Razorback Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Razorback Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Essex Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Essex Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation wins the 2012 Essex Handicap.
Photo: Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park
Alternation at Louisiana Downs, September 8, 2011.
Photo: Hodges Photography/Lou Hodges, Jr.
Alternation wins the 2011 Peter Pan.
Photo: Coglianese Photos
Alternation wins the 2011 Peter Pan.
Photo: Coglianese Photos
Alternation (inside) Oaklawn allowance win 1/15/11
Photo: Coady Photography
Alternation (inside) Oaklawn allowance win 1/15/11
Photo: Coady Photography| Trainer | Donnie K. Von Hemel |
|---|---|
| Jockey | Luis S. Quinonez |
| Owner | Pin Oak Stable |
| Breeder | Pin Oak Stud, LLC |
| Alternation View Five-Cross Pedigree | Distorted Humor | Forty Niner |
| Danzig's Beauty | ||
| Alternate | Seattle Slew | |
| Strike a Balance |
Josephine Abercrombie's Versailles, Ky.-based Pin Oak Stud announced that the 2014 stud fee for the recently retired multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Alternation will be $7,500 live foal, stands and nurses.
Multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Alternation has been retired and will stand at owner Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak Stud near Versailles, Ky., in 2014. A stud fee has yet to be announced.
Favored Prayer for Relief turned the tables on his local nemesis Alternation and held off a determined run from Worldly by a head in the $175,000 Governor's Cup Stakes on the night of Aug. 17.
Pin Oak Stables' multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Alternation remains in light training at Churchill Downs with Donnie Von Hemel, according to a May 22 press release.
An unfortunate stumble at the start of the Gulfstream Park Handicap (gr. II) last month cost Fort Larned his seasonal debut, but the 2012 Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) winner is back in the $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II).
Charles J. Cella's Cyber Secret, a son of Broken Vow, edges pacesetter Golden Ron by a head in the March 9 Razorback Handicap (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park.
Alternation drew the far outside post in a field of 10 for his attempt at a repeat victory in the $150,000 Razorback Handicap (gr. III) March 9 at Oaklawn Park.
Oaklawn Park's 2013 meet opens Jan. 11 with a scheduled record purse structure, new veterinary examination policies and new claiming rules, an injury database to aid commission vets, and an influx of new racing talent.
Pool Play won for the first time since suffering a tendon tear last year, and picked a good race to do it. The 7-year-old son of Silver Deputy took the $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup (gr. II) at Hawthorne Oct. 6.
Pin Oak Stable's homebred Alternation, winner of five of six starts this year, will make his first start in almost two months when he carries top weight in the $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup.
Pin Oak Stable's Alternation became a millionaire with a victory in the $200,000 Governor's Cup at Remington Park Aug. 11, but he had to work for it.
Alternation seeks redemption against a short field of four others in the $200,000 Governor's Cup Stakes at Remington Park Aug. 11, but Zayat Stables' speedy Prayer for Relief presents a challenge.
If the first three Breeders' Cup Challenge races were any indication, the road to the 29th Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) Nov. 3 at Santa Anita (NBC 8-9 p.m. ET) is going to be one fun ride.
The 31st running of the 1 1/8-mile event sets up as a faceoff between two of the country's top older horses--Pin Oak Stable's Alternation and Morton Fink's Wise Dan.
Pin Oak Stable's Alternation grabbed the lead inside the eighth pole and held off the late charge of Nehro to win the May 18 Pimlico Special (gr. III) by a nose. The son of Distorted Humor covered 1 3/16 miles in 1:57.60.
The Pimlico Special (gr. III), returning to the Pimlico racing calendar after a three-year hiatus, has drawn a sold field of 10 handicap horses, headed by Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II) winner Alternation.
Images from Oaklawn Park's 2012 Racing Festival of the South. View Slideshow
Alternation shocked a strong field in the $400,000 Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II) April 14 at Oaklawn Park, leading all the way for his third consecutive stakes win of the meet.
Recent grade I winners Hymn Book and Ron the Greek head a strong field of eight for the $400,000 Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II) April 14.
Reigning Horse of the Year Havre de Grace tops the list of horses nominated to the stakes extravaganza that, along with the Arkansas Derby (gr. I), comprise the "Racing Festival of the South" at Oaklawn Park April 11-14.
Alternation was allowed to take the lead heading into the first turn and never relinquished it, defeating 11-10 favorite Tapizar in the $125,000 Razorback Stakes (gr. III) March 10 at Oaklawn Park.
Win Willy is set for his first start since winning last year's Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II), returning to the Hot Springs, Ark., track for the $125,000 Razorback Handicap (gr. III) March 10.
Pin Oak Stable's Alternation earned the Oaklawn stakes victory that eluded him last year when he authoritatively captured the $100,000 Essex Handicap Feb. 4.
Pin Oak Stud's regally bred son of Distorted Humor, now 4, returns to Oaklawn ready to redeem himself in the $100,000 Essex Handicap where he was installed as the 2-1 morning line favorite and is the 118-pound high weight.
Redeemed notched his first victory in an added-money event, getting up in the final strides to take the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park Oct. 16.
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