Oaks News

Sierra Leone Tops Heavy Work Tab of Kentucky Derby Hopefuls

Repole Stable’s Fierceness, the likely favorite for the 150th running of the $5 million Kentucky Derby (GI) presented by Woodford Reserve, completed his major preparation for the Run for the Roses by working a half-mile in :48.80 under jockey John...

Honor Marie Heats up Cool Thursday Morning With Five-Furlong Breeze for Kentucky Derby 150

Undefeated Forever Young (JPN) Works Six Furlongs Toward Start in Kentucky Derby 150

On a chilly Monday morning at Churchill Downs, the action was non-stop at trainer Bill Mott’s Barn 19 as his Kentucky Derby and Oaks hopefuls Resilience (five furlongs, 1:01.60) and Just F Y I (five furlongs, :59.80) had published workouts beneath the...

Where’s My Ring made her cross-country trip to Aqueduct worth it in Saturday’s $200,000 Gazelle (G3), and at Santa Anita, Nothing Like You was part of a banner day for Frankie Dettori.

The bloom was very much back on Leslie’s Rose in Friday’s Ashland (G1), as the $1.15 million yearling upstaged champion Just F Y I and other Breeders’ Cup alumnae on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks.

The $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2) at Aqueduct on Saturday attracted a field of 13, but it looks like a top-heavy renewal on paper.

The top three from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), including champion Just F Y I, will meet again in Friday’s $600,000 Ashland (G1), but Impel has been installed as the 2-1 favorite in her first stakes appearance

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