{"id":54747,"date":"2021-04-28T22:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=54747"},"modified":"2021-04-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:43:48","slug":"the-bluegrass-oaks-attracts-a-beer-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=54747","title":{"rendered":"The Bluegrass Oaks Attracts A Beer Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\nThe biggest race of the year for sophomore fillies is easily the\nBluegrass Oaks.  The big story in this year\u2019s race is the \u201cBeer\nFlight\u201d.  A beer flight is tasting portions of several beers and in\nthis case the beer flight is the four fillies entered by trainer Beer\nKeg.  An amazing accomplishment for any trainer Beerkeg has been\ntargeting the classic races since last year and his breeding and\ntraining program has obviously worked well for him.  But there are\nsixteen other fillies in the field and they are no slouches.  Let\u2019s\ntake a look at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#1\nRightdownthealley\t\t\t17\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A grade three winner\nas a two year old going a mile, Rightdownthealley has truly blossomed\nthis year.  Both of her two starts have come at the grade one level\nand resulted in very strong races.  She took a two month holiday\nbetween two and three and returned to the races in mid-February with\na very close loss in the Grade One Vermont Is 4 Lovers.  That race\ncame at a mile and an eighth and saw her track the early leaders\nbefore closing into front runner Matcha Tapit\u2019s lead to lose by\nonly three parts of a length.  She ran a 95 speed that day but she\nimproved upon that by nine points in her next start.  That race was\nthe Batman Robin, again at nine furlongs but this time over an off\ntrack (her first try on one).  She was closer to the early pace and\ntook the lead rounding the turn and increasing her lead down the\nstretch to win by two lengths.  She\u2019s the first stakes winner from\nher Bernardini x Kingmambo dam and is a daughter of Flower Alley.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#2 Ryans Waromer\n\t\t\t19\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What to make of a\nfilly who has only one routing win from three starts?  Ryans Waromer\nmade her first route start in November when she scored in the Grade\nTwo Golden Red Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth.  She ran a career\nbest speed of 99 in that race where she was over eight lengths off\nthe early leaders but closed to win by a length and a half.  She got\na three month rest after that start.  She returned this year in the\nGrade One Vermont Is 4 Lovers at a mile and an eighth and again she\nwas far behind \u2013 this time over ten lengths behind but she closed\nto finish fifth beaten less than two lengths.  Her most recent start\ncame in the Grade One Batman Robin over an off track where she\nfinished sixth.  So has she just had bad luck in her two runs this\nyear?  She\u2019s never run a triple digit speed and she\u2019s going to be\npart of a phalanx of late runners in this field.  She\u2019s a daughter\nof California Chrome out of a stakes winning War Chant x Storm Cat\nmare and is the only graded winner in her extended family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#3 Domeplate\nRush\t\t\t12\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The graded placed \/\nstakes winning mare Devilish Thoughts has been a productive broodmare\nfor her connections.  She\u2019s foaled two listed winners, a grade\nthree winner and Domeplate Rush, her first grade one winner. \nDevilish Thoughts is a royally bred daughter of Kingmambo x A.P. Indy\nand Domeplate Rush is by California Chrome.  Domeplate Rush didn\u2019t\nreally blossom until she tried routes for the first time last season.\n She won two allowances with very nice speeds and then was second in\na one mile listed.  That race came in December and she returned to\naction in early February with a graded debut.  That race was the\nGrade Three SilverBulletBeer.  Although she ran a career best speed\nof 99 that day she only managed a fourth place finish.  She was\neleventh early on in that race but closed nicely to lose by only two\nlengths.  Domeplate Rush earned her grade one stripes in her next\nouting, the Key Lime Stakes at a mile and an eighth.  In that race\nshe sat closer to the early pace before running down the competition\nand winning by almost two lengths with a 103 speed.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#4 Always\nBold\t\t\t13\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A winner of five of\nseven starts, Always Bold has lost only once in four routing tries. \nThat loss came in the Breeders\u2019 Bowl Juvenile Filly but she won\u2019t\nhave to face that race\u2019s winner here as Dawngoesdowntoday has\nelected to face the boys on Saturday.  Always Bold booked her ticket\nto the Breeders\u2019 Bowl with a half length closing win in the Grade\nOne Darley at a mile and a sixteenth.  After the Breeders\u2019 Bowl she\ntook three months off and returned to the races in the Grade One Los\nVinegrette Stakes at a mile and won convincingly with a 105 speed. \nThat race was at a mile back in the first week in February.  She\u2019s\nnever run the mile and an eighth distance which many of the other\nfillies here have (some have even gone further).  She\u2019s a daughter\nof Always Dreaming out of a stakes winning Medaglia D\u2019oro x A.P.\nIndy mare so the pedigree sure says she can get the distance.  She\u2019s\nthe first stakes winner for her dam but her connections were so\nimpressed with this filly that they bred her dam back to Always\nDreaming for 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#5 Pitcairn\nWinds\t\t\t16\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a two year old\nPitcairn Winds never started in a route although she was stakes\nplaced sprinting.  Her connections decided to begin 2021 with an\nambitious placement \u2013 the Grade Three, one mile Bayou Express\nStakes in January.  They were rewarded with a great run as the filly\nclosed from tenth to win by a head.  Her next race came a month later\nin the Grade Three SilverBulletBeer at a mile and a sixteenth and she\nsat much closer to the early pace before taking the lead around the\nfar turn and winning by half a length.  In that race she ran a 101\nspeed, a career best.  Inexplicably she dropped well out of it in her\nmost recent run, the Grade One Lool Oaks and never made a rally,\nfinishing ninth.  Perhaps that race can be thrown out as a bounce off\nher big run the month before and she can be forgiven.  If she sits\nmidpack in this Oaks she is a live longshot.  Pictairn Winds is a\nscratchbred daughter of City of Light x Tale of the Cat x Broad\nBrush.  Trainer Jubalrutledge gives this update on his filly \u201cShe\nis named after the Pictairn Island which is on my bucket list to\nvisit.  Maybe she can get me there at least in the Sim world.  She\nhas a lot of spirit and doesn\u2019t give up easy.  She is still\nimproving and I hope I see her best at the Bluegrass Oaks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#6 Castle\nBravo\t\t\t21\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Castle Bravo has\nonly been off the board once in six route tries and that came in her\nstakes debut where she was fourth.  That race was at the end of\nDecember and she was going \u2018only\u2019 a mile but this year she\u2019s\ndone well going longer distances.  In her first start of the year she\ntried a mile and three sixteenths listed stakes and closed from\neleventh to lose by just three quarters of a length.  She ran a 96\nspeed that day.  Jumped up to a grade two next out in the Miss Bonnie\nshe was again very far back early on but this time her late close saw\nher go from tenth around the turn to first by a head at the end. \nThat race came at a mile and an eighth at the end of February so she\nis well rested for this start.  If there is a weakness to her resume\nit is that she has never run a triple digit speed.  Her winning\nnumber in the Miss Bonnie was a 95.  She\u2019s a daughter of Blame out\nof an Awesome Again x A.P. Indy mare.  The mare\u2019s only other graded\nwinner is a son of Unusual Heat who scored his biggest win at a mile\nand a quarter.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#7 Point Of\nSale\t\t\t11\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the grade\none winning Pioneerof the Nile x Awesome Again hemare Saturation\nPoint, Point of Sale may be a good bet based on pedigree.  Saturation\nPoint was good enough to win a Derby Lock as a three year old but\nfinished off the board in the big race which was run on an off track\nback in 2017.  He had a half brother who also was good enough to run\nin the Derby back in 2013 but again failed to hit the board.  Point\nof Sale is a daughter of Tapit who should give her a good stamina\nboost as well.  Perhaps she can avenge the family losses in these big\nraces.  Certainly her race record of five wins and a second from\neight starts is a good sign but looking a little closer we see that\nshe is undefeated sprinting \u2013 where she got her grade one win but\nher biggest finish routing came in the one mile Grade One Los\nVinegrette Stakes where she tried to take the field wire to wire\nbefore tiring late to finish second by a length and a half.  She did\nrun a 103 speed that day, her career best but she returned in the\nGrade One Lool Oaks going a mile and a sixteenth and failed to get\nthe lead early on, instead battling from second before taking the\nlead around the far turn then tiring to finish fifth.  She\u2019s never\nbeen beyond that distance so she\u2019s a big question mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#8 Machia\nTapit\t\t\t23\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Radler of the\nBeer Flight may just be Machia Tapit.  Radlers are typically\neffervescent wheat beers combined with a citrus juice \u2013 zesty,\nbubbly and delicious on a hot day.  The free running Machia Tapit\nlikes to play come and get me with her rivals in a playful fashion \u2013\ngiving them just enough hope that they might have a chance before\nfinding another gear.  Although Radlers are suited for hot days,\nMachia Tapit scored her biggest win in the February chill of Vermont\nin the Grade One Vermont Is 4 Lovers Stakes.  That nine furlong race\nsaw her open up by over four lengths and take a three and a half\nlength lead into the stretch run before coasting home to win by three\nquarters of a length.  That was her third stakes win in a row and\nsecond at that distance.  She ran a 94 in a listed in January and\nthen a 96 in the Vermont Is 4 Lovers.  She\u2019s been off since that\nmid-February race and she\u2019ll have to improve her speeds but that\nshouldn\u2019t be too hard.  The scratchbred daughter of Tapit x\nMachiavellian x War Front will probably have company on the front end\nthis time around too but perhaps if it is hot in Kentucky on Friday a\nRadler is just what the doctor ordered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#9 Ice Ice\nIndy\t\t\t15\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming in on a four\nrace win streak is Ice Ice Indy.  Although she has never been off the\nboard in seven career starts she didn\u2019t break her maiden until\nDecember in a seven furlong maiden special weight.  She returned to\nthe races in a first level allowance at the same distance in January,\nwinning after going wire to wire.  In both of those races she ran 87\nspeeds.  Her speed exploded to a 98 while winning her first route\nrace, another allowance.  In that race she sat just off the early\nleaders before making a strong bid to take the lead around the far\nturn and cruising down the stretch to win by a length and a half. \nThat big speed gave her connections the confidence to make her stakes\ndebut in her next start, the Grade Two Mellow Breeze Handicap and\nagain she allowed the early leaders to do their thing before pouncing\ndown the stretch and winning by almost two lengths with a lofty 106\nspeed.  Her two route runs have obviously been very impressive but\nboth races came at one mile so she\u2019ll have to prove she can take\nthe distance here.  She certainly has the pedigree to get the\ndistance as she is a daughter of Travers Stakes winner Keen Ice out\nof an A.P. Indy x Danzig mare.  Her dam was best between a mile and a\nmile and a sixteenth but the sire choice here may allow Ice Ice Indy\nto go a little farther.  She is her dam\u2019s only graded stakes winner\nbut the dam has produced three other stakes winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#10 Superblood\nWolfmoon \t\t\t20\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeking her first\nstakes win in this race is Superblood Wolfmoon.  She\u2019s coming into\nthe race off an interesting pattern.  After running poorly in the\nBreeders\u2019 Bowl Juvenile Filly she took five months off before\nreturning to the races.  Ambitiously placed in the Grade One\nCalifornia Oaks this deep closer unleashed a furious run down the\nstretch, closing from seventh by over six lengths to finish second\nbeaten just a length.  She was beaten that day by Sunday Kegger who\nsat closer to the early pace and got first jump on the rest of the\nfield.  That race was run at a mile and a sixteenth and Superblood\nWolfmoon has never run farther than that distance, and her pedigree\non paper looks like the distance shouldn\u2019t be a problem, but\ndigging deeper one finds some questions.  Superblood Wolfmoon is a\ndaughter of American Pharoah out of the grade one winning A.P. Indy x\nMr. Prospector mare Papua Theft.  Papua Theft won her grade one going\na mile as a two year old and was good enough to try the Bluegrass\nOaks back in 2006 where she finished seventeenth.  As she aged she\nproved much better in sprint distances with occasional moves up to a\nmile.  Her two best offspring are a grade two winner by War Front who\nalso was best at springs and a grade one winner by Ghostzapper who\nscored his biggest win going seven furlongs.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#11 Road To\nDanzig\t\t\t13\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Road To Danzig has\nreally earned her stripes this year.  A stakes plaled two year old\nshe took two months off over the winter and returned in a salty\nlisted at nine furlongs where she closed from tenth to lose by just a\nhead while running a 100 speed.  She ran back to that number in the\nGrade One Orange Tree going a sixteenth of a mile further.  That\nextra distance may have proven vital to her run as she gunned past\nthe field to win by a length and three quarters.  The scratchbred\ndaughter of Quality Road x Pleasant Colony x Danzig tried another\ngrade one at that distance in her most recent start but this time it\nwas in the Whats One More Stakes against males.  That resulted in her\nonly off the board finish in her career.  She was a bit flat in that\nstart, never really making a move and running only a 99 speed.  It is\nlikely that she can regain her better form running back against her\nown sex but the big question for her is how she will handle the drop\nback in distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#12 Riley\nReid\t\t\t11\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deepest, darkest\nof beers is the stout, the deepest of which is the Imperial Stout\nwhich also happens to have the highest alcohol by volume of other\nstouts.  Riley Reid fits this bill as she is a deep, deep closer.  In\nthree starts this year she was in 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 14<sup>th<\/sup>\nand 12<sup>th<\/sup> position at the first call of the races,\nrespectively.  Interestingly for a horse of her racing style she\u2019s\nnever been further than a mile and a sixteenth but in her three tries\nat that distance she has two wins and a third.  Her biggest win came\nin her most recent start, the Grade One Lool Oaks where she exploded\ndown the stretch to win by two lengths with a 106 speed.  The feeling\nhere is that an extra sixteenth of a mile should suit her well and\nperhaps she will be a future horse to watch going a mile and a\nquarter.  She\u2019s a scratchbred daughter of War Front x Smart Strike\nx Uncle Mo.  Let\u2019s see if that deep closing Imperial Stout makes a\nbig move down the stretch on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#13  Indy Sent\nProposal\t\t\t16\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indy Sent Proposal\nhas a perfect pedigree for this race.  She\u2019s a scratchbred daughter\nof Arrogate x A.P. Indy x Private Account.  She\u2019s inbred 5&#215;5 to\nBuckpasser who was a huge influence early on in the game and you\nrarely find inbreeding to him so late after his passing.  After a\nso-so two year old campaign Indy Sent Proposal took about ten weeks\noff between November and January.  Her return to the races came in a\nlisted stakes going a mile and a sixteenth which she won by closing\nfrom seventh while running a 96 speed.  She jumped up in class to the\nGrade One Key Lime Stakes in her next start and was slightly closer\nto the early pace.  Around the turn she moved into third just over\nthree lengths behind the frontrunner but she closed well to be second\nbehind Domeplate Rush.  Domeplate Rush sat a bit closer to the early\nlead that day and used that to her advantage to snag the win.  Indy\nSent Proposal did not diminish her reputation at all with that rally\nand she\u2019s on the up and up.  She ran a 101 speed while going\ntoday\u2019s distance.   \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14. Stormpire\t\t\t13\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a big weekend\nfor Massatoga with entries in both the Bluegrass Oaks and the Derby. \nStormpire had a chance to run against the boys in her last, the\nCalifornia Derby Lock Prep but a poor showing there rerouted her to\nthe Oaks.  So far she\u2019s been a bit unlucky in getting a grade one\nwin.  She was second by a half length in the Darley, the major\nKentucky prep for the Breeders\u2019 Bowl Juvenile Filly where she ran a\nsolid fourth.  Sent out to California she finished a heartbreaking\nsecond in the Movieland Starlet and then was third in the Los\nVinegrette Stakes before her tilt against the boys.  The grade three\nwinning filly has Massatoga excited \u201cShe has to be strong if you\nthrow out the last\u201d.  What is intriguing is that as a two year old\nshe was pure speed.  But in the Los Vinigrettte she started out in\ntenth before rallying to get up for third while running the best\nspeed of her career, a 100.  We\u2019ll see what strategy she takes on\nFriday but versatility is always a positive in racing,  Massatoga\nadds \u201cGood luck to all the trainers on the 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u201d \nStormpire is a scratchbred daughter of Classic Empire x Forty Niner x\nStorm Cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#15 Settle For War\n\t\t\t16\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One horse who is\npeaking at the right time is Settle For War.  After a less than\nthrilling two year old season she has made three strong appearances\non the track this year.  She began in January with an allowance win\nat this distance where she battled for the early lead before drawing\naway to win by nearly two lengths with a 95 speed.  Adding an extra\nfurlong and jumping up to grade one competition she finished second\nin the Orange Tree behind Road to Danzig.  Most recently she was\nthird the whole way around the track in the Grade One Batman Robin at\na mile and an eighth over an off track (her first try on one).  Even\nthough it was a fairly even race she did run a career best speed of\n101.  Trainer Supertaffy believes the secret to her filly\u2019s success\nis all in the blood.  The daughter of War Front is from \u201cone of my\nbest family lines.\u201d  Coming from Supertaffy that\u2019s saying a lot. \nSettle For War is out of the stakes winning Street Cry x Giant\u2019s\nCauseway mare Settle For Street, whose first three foals were all\nstakes winners.  Settle For Street is a half sister to two grade one\nwinners and a grade two winners and there are a number of stakes\nwinners under that second dam.  Supertaffy thinks \u201cthe 9f on a fast\ndirt will suit her best\u2026..fingers crossed she comes on strong and\ngets her first graded win.  It\u2019s a big ask but she\u2019s a good\nfilly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#16 Holidae\nIn\t\t\t16\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the holidays roll\naround every winter brewers start releasing Winter Ales.  These are\nbeers that are often mixed with warming spices such as ginger and\nnutmeg.  What makes a trainer feel warmer than a filly who begins to\ncome around with the holidays turning into January?  That describes\nwhat Beerkeg must feel about Holidae In who has won two of three\nstarts this year.  The first win came in an allowance in January at a\nmile where she went wire to wire to win with an 89 speed.  That was\nenough to send her into the stakes ranks next time out.  In that\nlisted going a mile and an eighth she again went straight to the\nfront but faded slightly in the stretch to finish second with a 98\nspeed.  Her most recent start actually came at a mile and three\nsixteenths in the Grade Three Happy Easter Stakes.  Again on the lead\nshe was nine lengths in front going around the turn and coasted to an\neasy tow and three quarter length victor and again improved her\nspeed, this time to a 103.  The scratchbred daughter of Candy Ride x\nStorm Bird x Curlin won\u2019t be the only one looking for the lead in\nhere so don\u2019t expect her to open up by nine but she\u2019s certainly\ngot the class to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#17 Cadet the\nDread\t\t\t16\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cadet the Dread has\nbeen first or second in all six of her starts.  Trainer Cadet says\nshe \u201cflashed some talent as a two year old (but) was given some\ntime to grow and mature\u201d \u2013 taking off four months from September\nthrough January to do that.  And boy has she matured!  Her three\nstarts this season have been pretty sensational.  She started the\nyear off with a fast closing second \u2013 coming from over ten lengths\nback to lose by less than a length &#8211; in an allowance at a mile and an\neighth.  That was enough for Cadet to \u201cgive her a chance to prove\nit in a listed stakes, which she won in the slop.\u201d  That\u2019s\nputting it mildly \u2013  Cadet the Dread again showed a big closing\nkick (this time going an extra sixteenth of a mile) and won by a\nmeasured length with a 102 speed.  Her most recent run also came on\nan off track in the Grade One Batman Robin at a mile and an eighth. \nCadet describes the race thus \u201cshe broke last, but made a furious\nfinish to end up 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and qualify for the Oaks.\u201d  She ran\na 101 speed that day.  If there is one concern it is that her last\ntwo runs have come on off tracks.  Again to Cadet \u201cObviously the\noff-tracks may move her up, but we aren\u2019t going to pass up an Oaks\ntry.\u201d  This is Cadet\u2019s first tilt at the Bluegrass Oaks, although\nthe stables were well represented in the Bluegrass Derby last year,\nfinishing third.  Cadet also feels that the filly\u2019s pedigree may\nhelp her here.  She\u2019s a daughter of Curlin out of the grade three\nwinning Malibu Moon x Unbridled\u2019s Song mare Moon Cadet.  Moon Cadet\nis a daughter of grade one winner Caddilac Moon, an open mare whom\nCadet has used several times.  Moon Cadet produced four straight\ngraded winners for Cadet, but none have won at the top level.  He\nsays of the family \u201c(they) tend to run very well on dry and wet\ntracks and has some serious speed figures that indicate the genes are\ngood enough to score here.\u201d  Of his filly\u2019s chances \u201cYou can\u2019t\nwin any of the races you don\u2019t enter, hoping they set a fast pace\nand Cadet the Dread burns them up late to capture the first G1 for\nthe family, and Oaks glory for Cadet Stables.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#18 Della\nJane\t\t\t15\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the best\nstories in the Oaks this year would be a win for Della Jane \u2013\nbecause she is named after a new granddaughter of trainer Duanecrisp.\n The real thing probably won\u2019t be impressed just yet but what a\nfeather in her cap it will be when she opens her first stable!  This\nDella Jane earned her spot in the field with an incredible win in her\nlast start, the Grade Two Fantasia Handicap at a mile and a\nsixteenth.  Duanecrisp describes her run this way \u201cShocking\nimprovement last out to get up by a nose hair.  She went from last to\nfirst with most of the running happening in the last \u00bc.\u201d  That\nlong loping close certainly gives the connections a hope that an\nextra sixteenth of a mile will only help the scratchbred daughter of\nLiam\u2019s Map x Smart Strike x Deputy Minister.  She also ran a 104\nspeed in that start, one of the higher numbers in the field. \nDuanecrisp considered skipping this spot but thinks \u201cthis could be\na once in a lifetime horse and (I) decided to enter.\u201d  He doesn\u2019t\nusually push his fillies hard and Della Jane took four days to \u201cstart\nacting full of herself again\u201d after that last run.  But now \u201cshe\nhas that look again and already is really sharp a week out from the\nrace.  I know she\u2019ll be running late so we need a good pace.  The\ncompetition is fantastic as it is every year.  If she takes another\nstep forward off of a quicker return she\u2019ll be in the thick of it\nlate.\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#19 OG Union\nMinister\t\t\t11\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OG Union Minister\nwas a late addition to this field.  She has more starts than any\nother filly in the field with eleven and she\u2019s been in the money\nnine times, with five wins.  She\u2019s looking for her first graded win\nin this spot but the scratchbred daughter of Union Rags x Deputy\nMinister x Roberto does have two listed wins to her credit.  In her\nmost recent start she also finished third in the Grade One Lool Oaks\nwhile running a 103 speed.  She very well may be last in the early\ngoing and she\u2019ll need to navigate nineteen other runners to get up\nbut there should be a lively pace to run at.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#20 Sunday\nKegger\t\t\t14\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming off a win in\nthe Grade One California Oaks one must think that Sunday Kegger calls\nfor a round of Coronas, the most popular beer in the state.  Best\nserved with a lime wedge, Corona is a pale ale.  Don\u2019t let the name\nfool you, pale ales are quite well rounded, full of flavor and very\napproachable.  I don\u2019t know if Sunday Kegger is approachable around\nthe barn but she\u2019s certainly an approachable choice in this race. \nShe was a grade three winner at two and has only made two starts this\nyear.  After a two month break over the winter she was ambitiously\nplaced in the Grade One Vermont Is 4 Lovers where she sat second\nearly on before tiring late.  Six weeks later she returned to\ndominate the California Oaks field, sitting midpack this time before\nmaking a sustained rally to win by a length with a 103 speed. \nCertainly coming in on her third start off a layoff makes her an\nideal candidate to move forward off that race.  She\u2019s a scratchbred\ndaughter of Quality Road x Sunday Silence x Medaglia D\u2019oro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good luck to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest race of the year for sophomore fillies is easily the Bluegrass Oaks. 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