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Tempt Fate, the winningest horse of the 2021 Oaklawn meeting, is scheduled to be active again during the 2021-2022 live season that begins Dec. 3, owner Jerry Caroom of Hot Springs said.

A 4-year-old Arkansas-bred son of Hamazing Destiny, Tempt Fate was 4 for 4 last season at Oaklawn (all against state-breds), including the $150,000 Nodouble Breeders' Stakes and $200,000 Arkansas Breeders' Championship Stakes in his two-turn debut at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.

The speedy Tempt Fate has raced just twice since the April 30 Arkansas Breeders' Championship, finishing sixth in the $100,000 off-the-turf Chamberlain Bridge Stakes May 31 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, and fifth in his allowance comeback sprint Nov. 10 at Delta Downs in Vinton, La.

“Just tuning him back up,” said Caroom, who was Oaklawn's co-fourth-leading owner last season with 10 victories. “Almost exactly the program we did last year. He loves this track.”

Caroom said Tempt Fate will again target Oaklawn's lucrative program for Arkansas-breds. He won two allowance races last season before dipping, successfully, into stakes waters.

“Why screw up that?” Caroom said. “I hope we'll see him four times. Four wins, hopefully. His mission is to go 4-0 this year. Hoonani Road went 7-0 at this track. I want this one to do eight.”

Hoonani Road, also campaigned by Caroom, won his first seven Oaklawn starts (all against state-breds), including the $100,000 Rainbow Stakes in 2018 and the Nodouble and Arkansas Breeders' Championship in 2019. Tempt Fate ran third in the 2020 Rainbow before dominating state-bred foes in 2021.

Trainer Carl Deville, on behalf of Caroom, had claimed Tempt Fate for $40,000 out of a third-place finish in his second career start, Feb. 14, 2020, at Oaklawn.

After losing Hoonani Road to a $25,000 claim in August 2020 at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., Caroom privately purchased him shortly before the 2021 Arkansas Breeders' Championship and retired the 6-year-old gelding to a farm near Opelousas, La., where Deville's grandchildren reside.

Caroom said he could have as many as 20 horses stabled at Oaklawn in 2021-2022, mostly with Deville. Caroom could eventually have a Kentucky Oaks prospect on the grounds in Pipeline Girl, a Tom Amoss trainee who won her career debut sprinting in June at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., before finishing 11th in the $400,000 Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes Oct. 8 at Keeneland in her two-turn debut. Pipeline Girl returned to finish third in a Nov. 13 allowance sprint at Churchill Downs.

“In the Alcibiades, she just completely laid an egg,” Caroom said. “The route messed her up a little bit. My strong desire is to have her here, but if she turns out that she's more suitable for the grass, then she'll stay with Amoss at Fair Grounds.”

Caroom purchased Pipeline Girl, a daughter of Air Force Blue, a multiple Group 1 winner in Europe, for $100,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

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Less than a week after teaming for their first Oaklawn victory, Hall of Fame jockey Calvin Borel and his wife, trainer Renay Borel, seek their first in a stake in Saturday's $150,000 Nodouble Breeders' for Arkansas-bred colts and geldings, 3 years old and up, at six furlongs.

Renay Borel is scheduled to send out two horses, including defending champion K J's Nobility in the Nodouble, which honors the 1968 Arkansas Derby winner, the country's two-time champion older horse (1969 and 1970) and leading Arkansas-bred money winner in history ($846,749).

Last Sunday, Calvin Borel recorded his first victory of the meeting, and first for his wife in Hot Springs, aboard Jack Van Berg. Renay Borel, a former exercise rider for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, inherited a small string of horses after Calvin Borel's older brother, Cecil, retired – again – from training following a runner-up finish by K J's Nobility in the $165,000 Arkansas Breeders' Championship Stakes last May at Oaklawn. Renay Borel had been Cecil Borel's assistant. Jack Van Berg was her second victory of the meeting and fourth overall.

“Everything's going good,” Renay Borel, 33, said Wednesday morning. “Take it one day at a time.”

Owned by Carson McCord of Hot Springs, K J's Nobility will break from the rail Saturday in search of his first victory since last year's Nodouble. The 7-year-old gelding exits a flat fifth-place finish as the favorite in a March 12 state-bred allowance sprint under Calvin Borel, his regular rider.

“I think it was because of the freeze,” Renay Borel said, referring to Oaklawn losing 11 days of training (Feb. 12-22) to severe winter weather. “I think the freeze had a lot to do with it. It kind of set us back a little bit. I kind of look at that race more as a little tune-up race, more than anything. So, if everything goes according to plan, I believe he'll be tough, regardless. It doesn't matter what post position he's in.”

Claimed by McCord for $25,000 in July 2018 at Indiana Grand, K J's Nobility has bankrolled $451,354 in a 33-race career.

Renay Borel is also scheduled to send out her first career Oaklawn winner, Bebop Shoes, for McCord in the Nodouble. Bebop Shoes was a sharp March 7 state-bred allowance winner in his last start.

“It's up to the owner whether she wants to run him in the Nodouble or not,” Renay Borel said. “Personally, I believe he fits. He's doing really good; training like a beast. We'll see.”

Renay Borel has never had a stakes starter since saddling her first horse in the fall of 2019. Calvin Borel has 52 career Oaklawn stakes victories and Jack Van Berg marked his 971st victory overall in Hot Springs. He was Oaklawn's leading rider in 1995 and 2001. Pat Day (a record 1,264) and Larry Snyder are the only riders in Oaklawn history with 1,000 career victories.

“We're going to try like hell,” Calvin Borel, 54, said with a laugh when asked about reaching 1,000. “Taking it day by day.”

As for Cecil Borel, the remaining members of Team Borel said he's living on Lake Fork Reservoir, about 70 miles east of Dallas. It's billed the premier trophy largemouth bass lake in Texas.

Cecil Borel, who has a history of heart problems, initially retired from training in August 2014 to care for his ailing wife, Debbie, a former Oaklawn racing official who died Jan. 1, 2015. Borel came out of retirement at the 2019 Oaklawn meeting, recording his first victory in approximately 4 ½ years with K J's Nobility in a state-bred allowance sprint that April. Borel, citing health issues, stepped away from training in the fall of 2019 (Renay Borel recorded her first career victory after inheriting his handful of runners) before returning as the trainer of record for the 2020 Oaklawn meet. Borel was 66 when he saddled K J's Nobility in the Arkansas Breeders' Championship Stakes.

“I don't know if there will be another comeback,” Renay Borel said. “You'll have to get ahold of him and ask him if that's what he wants to do right now. I believe he's having fun fishing.”

Known as an exhaustive caretaker, Cecil Borel authored a sparkling 7-2-3 record from just 17 starters last year at Oaklawn. Renay Borel has six horses at Oaklawn and is off to a solid start in 2021, with two victories and a third from nine starts at the meeting through Sunday.

“I learned everything from him,” Renay Borel said. “I try to keep my schedule the same as what he would do. You don't fix something that's not broke.”

The projected nine-horse Nodouble field from the rail out: K J's Nobility, Calvin Borel to ride, 118 pounds, 7-2 on the morning line; Captain Don, Walter De La Cruz, 118, 5-1; Glacken's Ghost, Alex Canchari, 123, 10-1; Tempt Fate, Joe Talamo, 123, 5-2; Bebop Shoes, Elvin Gonzalez, 123, 6-1; Reef's Destiny, David Cohen, 118, 15-1; J. E.'s Handmedown, Francisco Arrieta, 115, 10-1; Man in the Can, David Cabrera, 118, 9-2; and Bandit Point, Kelsi Harr, 118, 6-1.

Probable post time for the Nodouble Breeders' Stakes, the 10th of 11 races, is 5:52 p.m. (Central). Racing begins Saturday at 1 p.m. Weather permitting, the infield will be open.

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