Doublecents Dominates Oaklawn Maiden Field by 11 1/2 Lengths

Doublecents did not just win Oaklawn Park’s closing-day maiden special weight. He announced himself as a colt with stakes possibilities, sprinting clear under Ramon A. Vazquez and coasting home by 11 1/2 lengths in 1:09.42 for six furlongs.

That kind of margin matters, but the manner mattered more. Doublecents broke sharply from the middle of the gate, went straight to the front and never gave the field a chance to reel him in. He carved out an opening quarter in :22.32, kept rolling through the turn and was never asked for serious run in the stretch. For a colt who had already shown ability when he finished second on April 11, the second start was a sharper, cleaner statement: this was not simply a maiden breaker, it was a race that suggested a horse with real upward mobility.

The April 11 debut already hinted at that. Equibase’s chart shows Doublecents stalking the leading trio in that six-furlong maiden special weight, then finishing second behind Munnings Challenge, another TDN Rising Star, in 1:09.48 with fractions of 22.03, 45.59 and 57.55. On Saturday, Doublecents flipped the script and controlled the race on his own terms, a sign that Brett Creighton has a colt who can handle different setups as the competition gets tougher.

Danny Keene said after the win, “We thought he was a pretty good colt,” and he added that he was anxious to see how good the horse really was. That question now feels a little less theoretical. Keene Thoroughbreds LLC bought the Kentucky-bred colt for $120,000 at the 2025 Texas Thoroughbred Association 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale, and the payoff is starting to look substantial. Doublecents is by Goldencents out of Moka Latte, by Uncle Mo, and the victory made him Goldencents’ third TDN Rising Star, a useful marker for a sire still building his profile in the next generation.

Oaklawn’s spring meet, which runs from December through May and offers more than 60 stakes races and more than $18 million in purses, is built to reveal horses like this. The $110,000 maiden special weight he won was no soft introduction, and a colt who can dominate a race at that level on closing day has options now. The next step could be allowance company or a stakes test if Creighton wants to find out quickly whether Doublecents belongs among the better 3-year-old sprinters in the country.

For now, Oaklawn may have produced a horse worth tracking beyond Arkansas. A colt who can win on debut dynamics, then return to flatten a field by daylight, has a chance to matter far outside Hot Springs if he keeps moving forward.