Trainer Robertino Diodoro, Oaklawn’s leading trainer in 2020, is off to a fast start at the 2022-2023 meet, picking up his second stakes win since the Dec. 9 opening and his second straight $200,000 Tinsel Stakes victory on Saturday with John Holleman’s Bal Harbour.
John Holleman’s Bal Harbour rushed to the lead Saturday under jockey Cristian Torres and held it throughout for a win in the $200,000 1 1/8-mile Tinsel Stakes for horses 3 years old and up before an estimated crowd of 8,250 at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs on Saturday.