HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Strength in numbers. It’s what trainer Steve Asmussen will have Friday when he sends out four stakes winners – Silver Prospector, Shoplifted, Gold Street, and Jungle Runner – in the $150,000 Smarty Jones at Oaklawn Park. “We’re more than well represented,” he said. The Smarty Jones doubles as Oaklawn’s opening-day feature and one of its four points races for the Kentucky Derby. The one-mile stakes, which ends at the sixteenth pole, will reward Friday’s first four finishers on a scale of 10-4-2-1. The field of nine also includes Nucky, winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity; Three Technique, an Aqueduct allowance winner who gets the services of Irad Ortiz Jr.; and Lynn’s Map, who scratched from the Lecomte at Fair Grounds after drawing post 14. Shared Sense comes off a maiden special weight race in which he ran second to Blackberry Wine, who returned to win an allowance with a Beyer Speed Figure of 94. The quartet from Asmussen contributed to the barn’s banner year with 2-year-olds in 2019. Asmussen won 89 juvenile races, including 18 stakes, according to statistics from Daily Racing Form. The numbers are up from 78 and 11 in 2018. Silver Prospector was one of the barn’s most accomplished young runners, taking the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes by three-quarters of a length on Nov. 30 at Churchill Downs. Ricardo Santana Jr. was aboard and has the mount again from post 2. “It was a very exciting race,” Asmussen said. “He showed a lot of grit late in between horses.” Silver Prospector sat off the pace early and made a four-wide move into contention on the final turn. “He hooked up at the head of the stretch,” Asmussen said. “It was very encouraging the way he went through the wire as tough as the race was run.” Among the horses he defeated was the highly regarded Tiz the Law, the Grade 1 Champagne winner, who was a close third. Silver Prospector races for Ed and Susie Orr. Shoplifted wrapped up his season Dec. 15, when he was up for a head win in the $400,000 Springboard Mile at Remington Park. It was his first stakes win, and it came following a pair of starts at Santa Anita – a fifth-place finish in the American Pharoah and a seventh-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. “Shoplifted is a quality horse, capable of running second in the Hopeful, in a Grade 1,” Asmussen said of the colt’s September effort at Saratoga. “He did not care for the Santa Anita surface and did not run up to his potential in either race. I thought the Springboard Mile was a very significant win for him.” Tyler Gaffalione has the mount on Shoplifted from post 7 for Grandview Equine, Cheyenne Stables, and LNJ Foxwoods. Jungle Runner finished fourth in the Springboard after capturing the local prep, the $100,000 Clever Trevor. “He had a very rough trip in the Springboard Mile,” Asmussen said. “He was roughed up on multiple occasions in the race and still stayed on to be fourth.” Ramon Vazquez has the mount from post 5 for Calumet Farm. Gold Street enters off a 3 1/2-length win in the $75,000 Sugar Bowl on Dec. 21 at Fair Grounds. It came one start after he won a maiden special weight by seven lengths Nov. 23 at Churchill. “Gold Street’s been very impressive in his last two sprint races,” Asmussen said. “The Smarty Jones will be his first two-turn attempt.” Martin Garcia has the mount from post 6 for Mike McCarty. The forecast for Friday is a high of 49 degrees and a 10 percent chance of rain, according to The Weather Channel.