Venue = April 10

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I don't know what the cause is, but I can't ever remember a 6 horse Arkansas Derby. I wonder whether it might have something to do with changing their schedule for the Racing Festival of the South to occur on 3 weekends and not 2. It used to be that the Arkansas Derby, Oaklawn Handicap and Count Fleet and Apple Blossom happened on the same weekend and now the Apple Blossom and Oaklawn will not be run this coming weekend, but will be run next weekend.