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Pletcher was asked about the possibility of a wet track for the $500,000, nine-furlong Oaks and how it might affect his horses. "They all seemed to handle it well this morning - in fact, really well," the three-time Eclipse Award winner said.

Dawn After Dawn's trainer Wesley Hawley said, "The one hole is perfect, I'm fine with it.  She's got a good mind.  She'll break on top and come back to the rider (jockey Robby Albarado).  She's push-button.  I like the way she's coming into it." 

AUTOBAHN GIRL - Live Oak Plantation's Autobahn Girl galloped a mile and a half at Churchill Downs Tuesday morning in preparation for Friday's Kentucky

High Again breezed a strong half-mile in :47.80 Monday after the renovation break under Larry Melancon. Mott, Churchill's all-time leading conditioner by victories, looks forward to participating in Louisville's landmark race for 3-year-old fillies.

Dawn and Ike Thrash's Dawn After Dawn signaled her readiness for the Kentucky Oaks by working five furlongs in 1:00.20 on Sunday morning. The move impressed trainer Wesley Hawley and was the third-fastest of 26 at the distance over a track labeled "fast."

        Eclipse Award-winning filly Dreaming of Anna all but cemented her Kentucky Oaks credentials Saturday when she drilled a bullet five furlongs in :58.60, fastest of 47 workouts at the distance. Trainer Wayne Catalano said that owner Frank Calabrese has veto power, but that his recommendation will be for the Oaks, instead of the grassy Edgewood Stakes.

AUTOBAHN GIRL/SILVER KNOCKERS - Elk Manor Farm and James Moran's Silver Knockers worked a half-mile in :48.20 after the renovation break with Joe Johnson up

Frank Calabrese's Dreaming of Anna, winner of the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (GI) and the champion 2-year-old filly of 2006, took a van ride from Keeneland to Churchill Downs on Thursday to continue preparations for a possible bid for the 133rd running of the $500,000-added Kentucky Oaks (Grade I). "We're leaning toward it," said Catalano.

AUTOBAHN GIRL/SILVER KNOCKERS - Elk Manor Farm and James Moran's Silver Knockers galloped Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs with exercise rider Heather St

Zayat Stables' High Again worked five furlongs in 1:01.40 under jockey Larry Melancon after the renovation break Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs. The move was the 12th-fastest of 36 at the distance over a track labeled as "fast."

Melnyk Racing Stables’ Sealy Hill made her first venture over the main track at Churchill Downs Monday morning, galloping a mile and a half under Julia Brimo. The Point Given filly had vanned over from Keeneland Sunday morning.

AUTOBAHN GIRL/SILVER KNOCKERS - The Live Oak Plantation's Autobahn Girl and Elk Manor Farms and James Moran's Silver Knockers each gallo

Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor's Rags to Riches looms as a heavy favorite for the 133rd running of the $500,000-added Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) at Churchill Downs on May 4, but her presence does not appear to be scaring many opponents away from the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-old fillies.

EAST/BOCA GRANDE BOUNCES BACK IN AQUEDUCT'S COMELY - Phipps Stable's Boca Grande overhauled pacesetting favorite Perfect Forest near the top of the stretch and pulled away to win Saturday's $150,000 Comely Stakes (GIII) at Aqueduct by 1 ½ lengths.

  EAST/BOCA GRANDE LOOKS TO REBOUND IN AQUEDUCT'S COMELY - Phipps Stable's Boca Grande will attempt to bounce back from disappointing run in her season debut when she faces eight rivals in Saturday's $150,000 Comely (GII) at Aqueduct.

MIDWEST/CHRISTMAS KID WINS ASHLAND, HIGH HEELS ROLLS IN FANTASY - Rags to Riches is a two-time Grade I winner and the favorite for the $500,000-added Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) on May 4 at Churchill Downs, but her record cannot rival the accomplishments of Edward P. Evans' homebred Christmas Kid.The daughter of Lemon Drop Kid held off a late charge by heavily favored Octave to win Saturday's $500,000-added Ashland Stakes (GI) at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. In doing so, the James Jerkens-trained 3-year-old filly earned her third stakes win of year and did so over her third different surface.

INTERNATIONAL/FOLK MEETS BOYS IN QUALITY TEST FOR KENTUCKY OAKS BID - Godolphin Racing's streaking Folk will get a quality test against males as she preps fo

SOUTHEAST/PLETCHER'S COTTON BLOSSOM WINS FLORIDA OAKS IN '07 DEBUT - Dogwood Stable's Cotton Blossom, third to champion Dreaming of Anna

  CENTRAL/LUKAS ENTERS OAKS PICTURE AS TIME’S MISTRESS TAKES HONEYBEE – Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who has won the $500,000 Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) four times, but was on the outside looking in on this year’s Oaks scene until Charles Kidder’s Time’s Mistress scored an upset victory in Friday’s $100,000 Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

WEST/RAGS TO RICHES DOMINANT IN OAKS ROMP, COULD FACE MALES - An emphatic victory in Sunday's $300,000 Santa Anita Oaks (Grade I) left little doubt about which horse sits atop the ranks of contenders for the 133rd running of the Kentucky Oaks (GI) at Churchill Downs on May 4.

Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor's Rags to Riches, winner of the Las Virgenes (Grade I) and the favorite for Sunday's Santa Anita Oaks (GI), emerged as a solid favorite following three days of betting in Churchill Downs' 2007 Kentucky Oaks Future Wager ("KOFW").

WEST/RAGS TO RICHES HEAVILY FAVORED IN SANTA ANITA OAKS - Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor's Rags to Riches assumed the role of favorite for the $500,000-added Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) when she defeated a star-studded cast in her stakes debut in the Las Virgenes (GI) at Santa Anita. A strong effort in Sunday's $300,000 Santa Anita Oaks (GI) would likely make the 3-year-old daughter of A.P. Indy an overwhelming favorite to wear the lilies that will go to the winner of the 133rd running of the Kentucky Oaks on Friday, May 4.

CENTRAL/FLORAL PARK EDGES GRADE I WINNER SUTRA; EIGHT TO VIE IN FAIR GROUNDS OAKS – Overbrook Farm’s homebred Floral Park dueled for the early lead and had plenty left to hold off grade I winner Sutra in a Friday allowance race at Oaklawn Park.

  CENTRAL/GRADE I WINNER SUTRA BACK IN ACTION AT OAKLAWN - Stonerside Stable and Oakcrest Farm's Sutra, a grade I stakes winner at two, was upset on Friday at Oaklawn Park as she made her first start on the road to the $500,000 Kentucky Oaks (Grade I).

SOUTHEAST/AUDACIOUS CHLOE UPSETS CHAMP DREAMING OF ANNA - The unbeaten record of reigning juvenile filly champion Dreaming of Anna was already history, and now her record on grass has its first blemish.

RECORD 192 FILLIES NOMINATED TO 133rd KENTUCKY OAKS - Las Virgenes (Grade I) winner Rags to Riches and reigning juvenile filly champion Dreaming of Anna head a record list of 3-year-old fillies nom

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DEADLINE FOR KENTUCKY OAKS NOMINATIONS SET FOR MIDNIGHT SATURDAY