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So to all 11 of you reading this – including those seven loyal members of the family – here will be my stabs for tomorrow’s Oaks. We’ll put it on the record and there either will be no complaints – or, perhaps, many.

So we’ve got a baker’s dozen plus one in the 133rd Oaks, a most interesting race and the key, natch, to the Oaks – Derby double.

Just a quickie, Oaks fans. Wrote a long-winded blog over on the Derby site -- and if you care at all, you can give it a read.

Some little chestnuts (sounds better than acorns) en route to that big Oak(s):

There was that note out of Keeneland about the works Sunday morning.

They’re running the Bay Meadows Breeders’ Cup Oaks at Bay Meadows tomorrow (Saturday) and – when you’re thinking Kentucky Oaks – the BMBCO isn’t the first item that jumps into your head. In fact, it might not even been the second, or third, or 12th.

So Rags to Riches you know about.

So for better or worse --- and obviously her people will take the better on that one – Rags to Riches will not be seen in her racing armor between now and May 4, when she will come out of the big paddock at Churchill Downs the likely favorite in the 133rd Kentucky Oaks.

So no, not yet. We’re not going to rename this site the Rags to Riches HomePage.

With her third straight tally – this time in the Grade I Santa Anita Oaks on Sunday – Rags to Riches now has everyone’s attention on the Kentucky Oaks trail. If she’s not your favorite for the race right now, you’ve got hopes that far exceed expectations, or a pipeline to the Big Guy up above the stars.

So the racing office staff is out shaking trees on the backstretch at Santa Anita hoping that a spare 3-year-old filly or two might fall out. They need a couple of extra for next Sunday’s Grade I Santa Anita Oaks at a mile and one sixteenth.

Take 2 – Kentucky Oaks Blog

Greetings, all. Mac McBride here taking a first run at being a blogger - or is that Blogger - and hoping I can do it some justice.