HOT SPRINGS -- The fifth Advent Stakes at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort on Friday features a horse from the barn of North America's career-leading trainer in races won. Steve Asmussen enters with almost 1,000 victories on the track and more than 11,000 in a Hall of Fame career.

Strong Potential gets Hall of Fame rider Joel Rosario aboard in a field of seven 2-year-olds going 5 1/2 furlongs for $150,000 on the first day of a new racing season in Hot Springs. Longtime Asmussen clients Kirk and Judy Robison own the Yaupon colt, whose late grandsire Uncle Mo won the male 2-year-old championship after a Breeders' Cup triumph in 2010. Yaupon leads first-crop sires with progeny earnings of more than $2.7 million.

Those hints aside, look elsewhere for the program favorite, though trainer Randy Mo

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