The nationwide tour of state-bred championship cards rolls through Remington Park on Friday night for the Oklahoma Classics. The 10-race program includes 8 stakes races for the Oklahoma-breds and reunites several familiar equine faces on the local scene. What's interesting about this year's Classics Night card is the number of past champions showing up in different race divisions compared to their previous success. Who wins these contests of musical chairs? Let's take our shots.

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Race 3: $100,000 Lassie
Veteran trainer Kari Craddock has had much success with the 2-year-old fillies here, winning this race 3 times and finishing second a year ago. She's got #8 Lil Miss Brisket (4-1 morning line odds) coming off a big maiden win in her second start. Her rider Richard Eramia jumps to go with the Joe Offolter barn, for which he's the go-to pilot, but that leaves Craddock a chance to lure Stewart Elliott, the track's leading rider in 2023 and 2024.

Race 4: $100,000 Juvenile
#7 Sooner Red (5-2 ML) rolled wire-to-wire in his career debut Sept. 20 and looks to continue an unbelievable run for the Robertino Diodoro barn in recent months at the track. Leading jockey Ramon Vazquez has returned to Remington like time stood still, moving straight to the top of the leaderboard and winning a wild 45% teamed with Diodoro here. Underneath give a look to #4 Royalamerican and #5 Threesocks for a C.R. Trout barn that aims for Classics Night and has won this division 3 times.

Race 5: $130,000 Distaff Turf
Two-time reigning Remington Park Horse of the Meeting #2 Miss Code West (8-5 ML) has been an OKC dynamo. She romped by 4 in the Distaff last year on dirt, and recently has found a home on grass winning stakes at Lone Star and Remington Park. Kevin Scholl's stable star has the edge on defending Distaff Turf heroine #1 Doudoudouwannadance after comfortably defeating her in the Bob Barry Memorial last out. Favorites have won this division 9 of the last 10 years and that should continue. Late-running #3 Maybe Docie may pick up the exacta pieces with on-the-pace types likely to be softened by Miss Code West.

Race 6: $130,000 Distaff Sprint
Longshot #5 Floras Ora (15-1 ML) can step up as a 3-year-old filly and claim this division with last year's winner opting for the Distaff going long. Floras Ora won the Oklahoma Stallion Stakes fillies' division in her first start of the year and now gets that key, second-off-the-layoff attempt. She made a huge improvement in 2024 between her first and second starts and a similar improvement can win this. I'll exacta key-box with #1 Letta's Legacy (9-5 ML), who is a remarkable 9-10 in the exacta locally and 6-6 in the exacta over 6 furlongs, as well as the ever-sharp #2 Artistic Vision (2-1 ML).

Race 7: $145,000 Distaff
With last year's 1-2 finishers opting for the Distaff Turf this time around, it's last year's Distaff Sprint winner #7 Take Me Serious (6-5 ML) who gets a lot of attention here on the stretch-out. But I've liked both 2-turn route efforts by #4 Eireann (10-1 ML) and happily would take a good price on this one who is fresher at this time of year.

Race 8: $130,000 Sprint
#7 C W Prize (9-2 ML) was my pick in the Classics Cup going long last year, ran a credible second and has been rock-solid throughout the 2025 campaign. He's 9-10 in the exacta at Remington on dirt and a multiple stakes winner at Will Rogers Downs over this 6-furlong trip. He's the play over #5 Breakable Code (4-1 ML), runner-up in this race last year as the chalk and a super 5-for-7 on dirt at RP.

Race 9: $175,000 Classics Cup
#2 Mister Omaha (9-5 ML) ran fantastic on the front end of the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby vs. open company, beaten just 3-3/4 lengths when eventually third to Travers runner-up Bracket Buster. He won last year's Oklahoma Classics Juvenile and can be a hammerlock in this division for years to come for trainer Joe Offolter. I'll key him over #7 Flat Hanby on the long-awaited return, #8 Inca Empire, the defending champ meeting a slightly tougher field, and #3 Number One Dude, Mr. Reliable in these state-bred stakes over the years to put in a solid effort.

Race 10: $130,000 Turf
He wasn't favored in either of the past 2 years, but #6 Eakly (5-1 ML) knows his way to the front and to the wire first in the Oklahoma Classics Turf. Give him a big chance to three-peat for trainer Donnie K. Von Hemel, who's 32 victories in this series are far and away most of any conditioner. #7 Excaping the Blues (5-2 ML) set a course record 2 starts back and added the Red Earth Handicap for a fourth straight win most recently. He's not going down easily and will be forward as well in the mix. #8 Tap the Dot won this race in 2022 and at age 7 has been just about as good as ever. His late-running style could benefit from Eakly and Excaping the Blues duking it out. But give me Eakly once again.