Constitution’s Warrant Rides Rail to OK Derby Score

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Twin Creeks Racing Stables' WARRANT (Constitution) made an early bid at the rail under Joel Rosario and fought off a stubborn longshot in the lane to capture Sunday night's GIII Oklahoma Derby at Remington, becoming the 15th graded stakes winner for his star third-crop sire (by Tapit). A second-out graduate going six furlongs Feb. 16 at Fair Grounds, he came up a nose short when second in a Keeneland allowance/optional claimer Apr. 3 and filled the same slot in the Oaklawn S. May 1. Overcoming a wide trip to annex the Texas Derby May 31 at Lone Star, he was runner-up in the GIII West Virginia Derby last out Aug. 7 at Mountaineer and was made the fractional third choice here. Settling in fifth behind a contested :23.68 quarter, the chestnut crept closer down the backstretch and Rosario decided to step on the gas as frontrunner Flash of Mischief (Into Mischief) drifted off the rail nearing the far turn. Taking over from that rival into the lane, Warrant faced a resurgent foe before asserting himself once and for all outside the sixteenth pole and edging clear to a two-length score. Flash of Mischief held second over favored Super Stock (Dialed In). Lifetime Record: 7-3-3-1, $634,700. O-Twin Creeks Racing Stables LLC; B-Twin Creeks Farm (KY); T-Brad Cox.

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