Concert Tour Returns to Action in Fifth Season

Although the field for the Jan. 15 $150,000 Fifth Season Stakes at Oaklawn Park drew a genuine lineup of contenders, all eyes will be on Gary and Mary West's Concert Tour  when he makes his first start since outrun in the 2021 Preakness Stakes (G1).

The 4-year-old son of Street Sense   was one of the dominant sophomores in training last spring heading into the Triple Crown series, capturing the San Vincente Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park in his second career start before traveling to Hot Springs to score an emphatic victory in the Rebel Stakes (G2). After a third in the Arkansas Derby (G1), Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert rerouted the colt to the Preakness, where he turned in his worst performance to run ninth.

Concert Tour has undergone a barn change since, transferring to 2020 Eclipse Award-winning trainer Brad Cox. The colt has recorded a series of works at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, including a bullet five-furlong move in 1:00 Jan. 3.

Jockey Joel Rosario, who recently moved his tack to Oaklawn for the winter/spring meet, has the ride on Concert Tour in the one-mile Fifth Season.

Awaiting Concert Tour are M and M Racing's Thomas Shelby , who just ran second, three-quarters of a length short of Lone Rock , in the Dec. 18 Tinsel Stakes, and recent Oaklawn allowance victor Mucho , who stretches out beyond seven furlongs for the first time in over a year and a half. He races for trainer John Ortiz and owners WSS Racing and 4 G Racing.

Bloom Racing's millionaire Snapper Sinclair , always a dangerous presence at a mile for trainer Steve Asmussen, will be looking to rebound back into form off a fifth-place effort in the Dec. 18 Prairie Bayou Stakes at Turfway Park. That race on Tapeta marked his only try on a synthetic track in 36 races.

Also entered is fellow millionaire Rated R Superstar , who has made $298,991 in winning two of eight starts for owner Danny Caldwell and trainer Federico Villafranco since claimed for $50,000 a year ago.

"He's (a) professional racehorse is what he is," said Caldwell. "He knows his job, he loves his job, he loves to go out there and perform. I wish I had a barn full of horses like him."

Rated R Superstar (Kodiak Kowboy ) hasn't started since finishing second in a Sept. 11 allowance race at Remington Park. Caldwell said the gelding came out of the race with a minor splint bone issue, necessitating a short break from training. Rated R Superstar has five published workouts since Dec. 2, the last two coming at Oaklawn.

Willis Horton Racing's Long Range Toddy  is a third millionaire in the lineup, though he has struggled since 2000.

Entries: Fifth Season S.

Oaklawn Park, Saturday, January 15, 2022, Race 8

• STK
• 1m
• Dirt
• $150,000
• 4 yo's & up
• 3:46 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Thomas Shelby (KY)	David Cohen	122	Robertino Diodoro	5/1
2	2Rated R Superstar (KY)	David Cabrera	122	Federico Villafranco	8/1
3	3Snapper Sinclair (KY)	Ramon A. Vazquez	122	Steven M. Asmussen	6/1
4	4Necker Island (KY)	Francisco Arrieta	122	Chris A. Hartman	9/2
5	5Concert Tour (KY)	Joel Rosario	122	Brad H. Cox	5/2
6	6Atoka (KY)	Luis Contreras	122	D. Wayne Lukas	15/1
7	7Long Range Toddy (KY)	Jon Kenton Court	115	Dallas Stewart	10/1
8	8Silver Prospector (KY)	Ricardo Santana, Jr.	115	Steven M. Asmussen	10/1
9	9Mucho (KY)	Florent Geroux	122	John Alexander Ortiz	7/2