Oaklawn Park recap

Attendance: 3,568 ( 21st day of scheduled 57- day meeting; Feb. 6- 9 cards and last six races Feb. 2 canceled).

Total handle on Oaklawn races: $ 2,434,210 ($ 300,700 on track; $ 2,133,510 off track).

Classix: No tickets with five or six winners on third through eighth races, resulting in a pick- six carryover of $ 11,291. A consolation payoff of $ 68 was returned on 20 tickets with four of six winners.

The Sentinel- Record Morning Line: One win ($ 5.80 in second race), two seconds and three thirds from nine races.

Claims: Eight horses taken for $ 75,000, second- race winner Herecomesbert going from owner- trainer Tim Ritchey to central Arkansas automobile dealer Steve Landers and new trainer Cody Autrey for $ 7,500.

Multiple winners: Two for jockey Channing Hill — Kowboy Kody ($ 13.40) in the fourth for trainer and co- owner J. R. Caldwell and Sugar Shock ($ 6) in the seventh for owner- trainer Doug Anderson. A 3- year- old Candy Ride filly, Sugar Shock won for the second time at the meeting after gaining her maiden victory Jan. 20.

Feature race: Cliff Berry got away with a soft pace aboard Moonshine Mullin ($ 17) and jogged to a 3 1/ 4- length victory in the $ 59,000 feature race. With Berry slowing the intermediate fractions to 48.90 seconds ( half mile) and 1: 13.38 ( six furlongs), the 6- year- old son of Albert the Great turned back a mild challenge from No Spin on the far turn and clocked the fast- rated mile and a sixteenth in 1: 44.40.

Class hike: Itsallinthefamily ($ 19) defeated maiden special weights in the fifth race for trainer Chris Hartman, who claimed the 4- year- old filly Feb. 1 for $ 30,000 in behalf of Craig Drago. Ken Tohill rode the winner.

Upsetters: Bankrolls took a beating in a couple of early races with 3- year- old fillies Heykittykittykitty and Questlie third as odds- on favorites. A stakes winner in Oklahoma and a strong second in her 3- year- old debut Jan. 24, Heykittykittykitty was bumped at the start in a $ 32,000 starter allowance won by the Steve Asmussen- trained Dash to the Flash ($ 13.80) with Ricardo Santana Jr. aboard.

Questlie came up short against older rivals in a $ 58,000 allowance sprint for Arkansas- bred females, a prep for the $ 75,000 Downthedustyroad Breeders’ March 1 at furlongs. Pretty Suspect ($ 15), trained by Al Cates, won by a neck over K J’s Sweetater under Rosemary Homeister Jr., the second win of the meeting for the 3- year- old Primary Suspect filly. Questlie went off at 1- 5 after her runner- up finish in the $ 75,000 Dixie Belle Jan. 10

California dreaming: Bayern’s dam is the Thunder Gulch mare Alittlebitearly, which described Bob Baffert’s reaction to what’s next for the unbeaten Offlee Wild colt he trains for Kaleem Shah.

But after a 15- length romp Thursday at Santa Anita, Bayern might next be seen in a stakes race, possibly in Oaklawn’s Grade 2 $ 600,000 Rebel March 15 — although his Hall of Fame trainer didn’t say that.

“He’ll let us know when he’s ready to go again,” Baffert told HRTV after Bayern, in his second start, went a fast- rated mile in 1: 35.77 under Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens. This followed the colt’s Jan. 4 debut victory of 3 1/ 4 lengths at 6 1/ 2 furlongs.

So far, Bayern’s conquests have included three stablemates, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile starter Tap It Rich completing the exacta Thursday, but if anyone knows how to get a young horse ready for the bigtime, it’s Baffert. Bodemeister, remember, won the 2012 Grade 1 Arkansas Derby by 9 1/ 2 lengths in his fourth start, then just missed against I’ll Have Another in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

“This is what you want to see,” Baffert said, “something that will get your hopes up.”

Southwest: Four prospects for Monday’s Grade 3 $ 300,000 Southwest put in their final training at Evangeline Training Center in Carencro, La. — six hours south of Oaklawn, which canceled four days of training and racing because of winter weather.

Stakes winner Louie’s Flower and Son of Dixie, a last- out Oaklawn third- place finisher, each worked a half- mile and galloped out seven furlongs, said trainer Bret Calhoun. Tanzanite Cat, Oaklawn’s one- mile Smarty Jones winner Jan. 20, and local maiden winner Paganol worked together in 48 seconds and galloped out in 1: 01 3- 5, said Cody Autrey, who trains both for Texans James and Ywachetta Driver.

Oaklawn, meanwhile, did not open the racing surface for training Thursday morning but permitted two S0uthwest hopefuls to work between the first and second races. Grade 2 winner Tapiture went a half- mile in 50 seconds in his first Oaklawn effort, delighting trainer Steve Asmussen, while Smarty Jones runner- up Walt, in company with maiden Skydive, went the same distance in 47 1- 5 seconds for trainer Chris Hartman.

A field of 10 to 14 3- year- olds is expected when entries are drawn today for the mile- and- a- sixteenth Southwest, said racing secretary Pat Pope.

Sunday stake: Defending champion Don’t Tell Sophia has nine opponents in the $ 100,000 Bayakoa for older fillies and mares at a mile and a sixteenth. Trained by co- owner Phil Sims, the 6- year- old mare comes off a length- and- a- half title defense in the $ 100,000 Pippin Jan. 18 going the same distance in 1: 44.30. Don’t Tell Sophia, high- weighted at 122 pounds under allowance conditions, breaks from the rail post with Channing Hill aboard.

— Bob Wisener THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Dustin Johnson moved down the coast of California and brought his game with him Thursday in the Northern Trust Open. So did Jimmy Walker. Johnson made six birdies on a warm, sunny day at Riviera for a 5- under 66, giving him a one- shot lead when the opening round was suspended by darkness. Walker birdied his last three holes and was in the large group at 67 that included Francesco Molinari of Italy and Torrey Pines winner Scott Stallings.

Four days ago, Johnson closed with a 66 in the gray, cold weather of Pebble Beach to finish one shot behind Walker. In conditions that could not have been any different — and could not have been any better — he made birdie on all of the par 5s at Riviera and only had one bogey on his card, at the long par- 3 fourth.

As glorious a day as it was off Sunset Boulevard, Riviera was firm and fast, particularly on the greens.

The warmth meant a little more distance, such as the 349- yard tee shot Johnson hammered down the middle of 13th fairway, a slight dogleg left framed by eucalyptus trees. That left him only 97 yards, and he stuffed it. And on the par- 5 17th — 608 yards up the hill, no help from wind — he reached it in two and had a two- putt from just over 20 feet. His only glitch was coming up just short of the green and in the bunker on the 225- yard fourth.

Molinari started well with an ideal tee shot on the short but troublesome 10th hole — far left of the fairway, just short of a bunker, leaving an open angle to the green. He made par, which is satisfactory, and then picked up three birdies over his next six holes.

“The rough is not too punitive, but it’s a good advantage being on the green, and I hit a lot of good iron shots,” Molinari said.

Robert Garrigus, Charley Hoffman and Matt Jones also were at 67. Jim Furyk and Cameron Tringale were at 68 among the early starters.

Jordan Spieth was among those who played in the afternoon, in similar conditions except that Riviera was slightly faster and the air even warmer. He holed out from 125 yards on the seventh hole for eagle and made the turn at 3 under.

Women’s Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia — Suzann Pettersen carded a 6- under 66 Thursday to lead the women’s Australian Open by a shot after the first round at the Victoria Golf Club.

Pettersen, winner of last year’s Evian Championships, had nine birdies and three bogeys, holding off a series of challengers led by Marion Ricordeau of France.

Ricordeau, who had eight birdies, a bogey and double bogey, briefly drew level with Pettersen before finishing among a group of four players with rounds of 67.

World No. 4 Lydia Ko of New Zealand was among a larger group at 4- under after a mixed opening round. Ko was one under after her opening nine but came home with five birdies and two bogeys, including birdies at her last two holes.