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Concert Tour and Joel Rosario ran away with the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn
Concert Tour and Hozier were to be flown back to their Southern California base Sunday, a day after finishing 1-2, respectively, in Oaklawn s $1 million Rebel Stakes (G2) for 3-year-olds, continuing Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert s stranglehold on the major Kentucky Derby prep race.
Accompanied by Jimmy Barnes, Baffert s main assistant, Concert Tour and Hozier departed the barn area at approximately 9 a.m. (Central) and vanned 57 miles to Little Rock s Clinton National Airport for a Tex Sutton Equine Air Transportation flight.
Both horses exited the 1 1/16-mile Rebel in good order, Barnes said before training hours Sunday morning outside the Royal Glint barn, which house horses for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Baffert s horses normally ship into Lukas barn at Oaklawn.