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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | May 3, 1996
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Unlike the Kentucky Derby, today's $500,000 Kentucky Oaks for 3-year-old fillies drew a small field of six runners, including My Flag, last year's winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.My Flag has won her last two starts, including the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland two weeks ago. She is the 7-5 morning-line favorite of the Churchill oddsmaker, Mike Battaglia."She's been doing well here, but this is a competitive race," her trainer, Shug McGaughey, said yesterday. "When they say the Kentucky Oaks and put up $500,000, they're not going to give it away."
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By Marty McGee | March 31, 1991
The Pimlico Oaks offered a $200,000 purse yesterday, but it apparently wasn't enough to entice an invader of quality to take on the Maryland queen, Wide Country.So the filly did what she has been doing for several months: She won as she pleased, then returned to the winner's circle looking for tougher company.Trainer Bob Camac said the filly would not go to Churchill Downs for the May 3 Kentucky Oaks -- "It's too far from home," he said -- and will run next against Maryland-breds in the $75,000 Caesar's Wish Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on April 28.Then, it's the $250,000 Black Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico on May 17. That could finally provide the opposition that owner Tommy Tanner has been seeking.
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By Ken Murray and Ken Murray,ken.murray@baltsun.com | May 8, 2009
Rachel Alexandra changed stalls at Churchill Downs in Louisville early Thursday morning, and the reverberations blew through the Preakness Stakes posthaste. No sooner had Stonestreet Stables purchased the precocious 3-year-old filly than new owner Jess Jackson was fielding questions about a possible run at the $1 million Preakness on May 16. Jackson was noncommittal after moving Rachel Alexandra into trainer Steve Asmussen's barn. The ambiguity left Chip Woolley, trainer for the Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, wondering whether he needed a jockey for the second leg of the Triple Crown.
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By Kent Baker and Kent Baker,SUN STAFF Sun staff writer Tom Keyser contributed to this article | May 16, 1997
Now, the racing gets serious.Blushing K.D., who has dominated this year's 3-year-old filly crop, returns to the track today as a heavy favorite in the Grade II, $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico.The daughter of 1989 Pimlico Special winner Blushing John will take on six rivals over 1 1/8 miles in an event that looks much softer for her than the Kentucky Oaks on Derby Day.Blushing K.D. won the Oaks -- her seventh victory in eight lifetime starts -- by 2 1/4 lengths and pushed her earnings to $713,040, sixth highest in the country.
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By Tom Keyser and Tom Keyser,SUN STAFF | May 7, 2005
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- There will be no Kentucky Oaks-Kentucky Derby double of horses owned by high-profile people affiliated with the New York Yankees. Sis City, owned in part by Yankees manager Joe Torre, finished fourth as the 3-5 favorite in the $500,000 Kentucky Oaks for 3-year-old fillies yesterday at Churchill Downs. Today, Bellamy Road, owned by George Steinbrenner, the Yankees' owner, competes in the Kentucky Derby. Summerly captured the Oaks by hustling to the lead and then repelling Sis City's final-turn challenge.
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By New York Daily News | May 15, 1991
Lite Light, who stamped herself as the nation's top 3-year-old filly when she won the Kentucky Oaks by 10 lengths, will race next in the June 8 Belmont Stakes, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said yesterday.Hollendorfer said the decision was made Monday night in a meeting with Lite Light's owners, the family of rap star M.C. Hammer. They'll have to pay a $50,000 supplemental entry fee.It was the owners who suggested the Belmont following Lite Ligh's victory in the 1 1/2 -mile Kentucky Oaks.