2018 Kentucky Oaks odds, predictions: Midnight Bisou, Monomoy Girl?

Churchill Downs' Barn Notes: G1-Placed Generous Tipper Returns in Sunday's Street Sense Stakes (Generous Tipper / Coady Photography) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: GRADE I-PLACED GENEROUS TIPPER LEADS ULTRA-COMPETITIVE FIELD IN SUNDAY'S $200000 STREET SENSE ON OPENING DAT AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Walking L Thoroughbreds' Generous Tipper, the recent…

The best three-year-old dirt fillies in the country have their day Saturday, July 22, at Saratoga in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks. The 1 ⅛-mile dirt race offers a purse of $500000, and the field of six includes many of the top three-year-old fillies. Though Kentucky Oaks winner Pretty Mischievous does not return in this spot, Kentucky…

When last seen, the late run of Gambling Girl fell just a neck short of victory in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks. She will try to validate that performance when she headlines a field of six entered in Saturday's Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga. Although she has yet to break through with a graded stakes victory, the Todd Pletcher trainee…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- An equipment change helped Pretty Mischievous bounce back from a disappointing tune-up with a statement performance in the Kentucky Oaks. Wearing blinkers for the first time, the Brendan Walsh-trained filly took charge in the stretch and survived a late push by Gambling Girl to win the $1.25 million Oaks by a neck on Friday at…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An equipment change helped Pretty Mischievous bounce back from a disappointing tuneup with a statement performance in the Kentucky Oaks. Wearing blinkers for the first time, the Brendan Walsh-trained filly took charge in the stretch and survived a late push by Gambling Girl to win the $1.25 million Oaks by a neck on Friday at…

One day before the colts take center stage in the Kentucky Derby, the country's best 3-year-old fillies will square off in the 2023 Kentucky Oaks on Friday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Trainer Brad Cox, a Louisville native who grew up four blocks from the backside of Churchill Downs, will attempt to win his third Lillies for the Fillies.…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A talented group of 14 fillies will seek glory in Friday's $1.25 million Grade 1 Longines Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. Trainer Brad Cox will saddle morning-line favorite Wet Paint (5-2), who comes in off three consecutive wins on the Oaklawn Park prep circuit. The daughter of Blame will be looking to provide Cox with his…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Brad Cox views his full plate this weekend at Churchill Downs as a good problem to have. Especially if his contingent of fillies hit the board in Friday's 149th Kentucky Oaks, a race where the Louisville-born trainer has thrived. Cox certainly likes his chances with red-hot Wet Paint entering as the 5-2 morning line favorite,…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Brad Cox views his full plate this weekend at Churchill Downs as a good problem to have. Especially if his contingent of fillies hit the board in Friday's 149th Kentucky Oaks, a race where the Louisville-born trainer has thrived. Cox certainly likes his chances with red-hot Wet Paint entering as the 5-2 morning line favorite, with…

Much has been made about the Kentucky Derby pace, or in the opinion of some soothsayers, the lack thereof. But the Kentucky Oaks looks potentially void of early zip as well. That's significant because the morning-line favorite and most likely winner on my fair-odds line is the deep closer Wet Paint. She is undefeated in four starts on dirt but has…

Godolphin-owned Wet Paint checks most boxes as the 5-2 morning line favorite for the $1.25 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on Friday. The Kentucky Oaks for 3-year-old fillies is the companion event to Saturday's $3 million Kentucky Derby (G1) as Churchill Downs commands center stage this weekend. The 1 1/8-mile Oaks drew a full field of 14 with three…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Godolphin homebred Wet Paint (Blame), an impressive come-from-behind winner in three straight while sweeping the Oaklawn Park series for 3-year-old fillies headed by the GIII Fantasy S. Apr. 1, was tabbed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite for Friday's GI Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. Conditioned by two-time Kentucky…

The Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve isn't the only major horse race taking place at Churchill Downs this spring. One day prior to the fabled first Saturday in May, a deep field of three-year-old fillies will race 1 1/8 miles in the $1.25 million Grade 1 Longines Kentucky Oaks. Just like the Derby, the Oaks has been held every year…

Don't forget that before he became a horse whisperer to Kentucky Derby prospects, Brad Cox displayed a certain charm with fillies. In what seems destined to be a Hall of Fame career, the 42-year-old trainer scored his first Grade 1 victory in the 2018 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland with Monomoy Girl, taking his first Kentucky Oaks crown next out at…

LEXINGTON, KY (Feb. 24, 2022) - L and N Racing and Winchell Thoroughbreds' champion Echo Zulu, who capped off a perfect 2021 campaign with a victory in the NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Del Mar, and Dawn and Ike Thrash's Turnerloose, winner of the Rachel Alexandra (G2) last Saturday at Fair Grounds in her dirt debut, headline the…

Hello, Letruska. We know you now! In a thrilling stretch duel featuring two-time champion Monomoy Girl and the sort-of-overlooked Letruska, the final nose bob went to Letruska in the $1 million Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) at Oaklawn Park on Saturday. And what a surprise it was. The expected and much-hyped showdown between two champions - 6-year-old…

Horse racing fans will witness an epic rematch on Saturday when two of the top horses in training, Monomoy Girl and Swiss Skydiver, square off in the 2021 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park. The two racing stars previously met in last year's Breeders' Cup Distaff, but that showdown never materialized after Swiss Skydiver stumbled at the start.…

Livia Frazar met Brad Cox in 2011 at Oaklawn Park when her future husband's stable was down to two claiming horses. Today, Cox trains around 150 horses, including the winners of a record-tying four Breeders' Cup races on the 2020 championship cards. The 40-year-old Louisville, Ky., native is a leading contender to win the Eclipse Award as 2020's…

Though it takes place every year, essentially the Breeders Cup is horse racing's Olympics. Regardless of the surface or distance you like to run, the best of the best are matched up and a winner in each division is crowned. The Breeders Cup Classic is a terrific race led by Improbable, Tiz the Law, and Maximum Security. Breeders Cup Classic odds…

Trainer Brad Cox grew up two blocks from Churchill Downs on Evelyn Avenue and yearns for the day he'll saddle a horse for the Kentucky Derby. For now, he can find solace in a nice run of success in what he called Kentucky's "second-biggest race." Shedaresthedevil, overlooked by the betting public at 15-1 odds, stalked the front-running Gamine, took…

One of the favorites, Monomoy Girl, came through with a fight down the stretch to hold off Wonder Gadot to win the 2018 Kentucky Oaks on Friday afternoon at Churchill Downs. Monomoy Girl, a 5/2 race at post time, took the lead around the halfway point of the race after Take Charge Paula did just that for the first half mile. Wonder Gadot, at 16-1…