Oaks News

Kentucky Oaks (G1) day and Kentucky Derby (G1) day at Churchill Downs are perfect opportunities for beginning horseplayers to try their hand at small win bets.

The 14 entrants in the 2025 Kentucky Oaks (G1) can be divided into four categories: the Favorite, the Main Challengers, the Up-and-Comers, and the Longshots.

Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna makes her return to Churchill Downs on Friday when she headlines a field of seven fillies and mares for the 40th running of the $1 million Fasig-Tipton La Troienne (GI) going 1 1/16 miles on the main track.
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An impressive group of fillies is slated to contest the $1.25 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on May 2 at Churchill Downs.

Starting Thursday and continuing through Wednesday, April 30, Churchill Downs will be open free-of-charge daily from 6:45-10 a.m. so guests can watch the nation’s top 3-year-old Thoroughbreds train toward their engagements in this year’s Kentucky...

Norman Stables’ Coal Battle and Junko Kondo’s UAE Derby (GII) winner Admire Daytona (JPN) put in half-mile works for Kentucky Derby 151 over a fast track on a Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs.
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Godolphin’s Good Cheer, the likely favorite for the $1.5 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade I), turned in her most serious work to date Thursday morning at Churchill Downs with a five-furlong breeze in a sharp :59.40, the fastest of 10 at the distance.
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The Road to the Kentucky Oaks wrapped up with the Ashland S. (G1) at Keeneland, bringing the field for the first Friday in May into sharper focus. The top contenders are Quietside, La Cara, and Good Cheer.

Thorpedo Anna, the reigning Horse of the Year, makes the second start of her four-year-old campaign in Saturday’s $1.25 million Apple Blossom S. (G1) at Oaklawn Park—one of the premier two-turn races in the country for older fillies and mares.

Tracy Farmer’s La Cara, who captured the first scoring race on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks last fall, furnished a neat piece of symmetry by taking the series finale in the Ashland (G1).