Baroness Thatcher

The $250,000 Stonerside Beaumont (Grade 2), run at Keeneland on Thursday, boasted a trio of individual betting interests in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Oaks Future Wager. All three failed to hit the board as the relatively unknown Street Sounds won the race in determined fashion by a neck over Forever Together.

The $250,000 Beaumont, a Grade 2 race to be run at Keeneland on Thursday, has lured a solid field of eight sophomore fillies looking at their last chance to punch a ticket to the Kentucky Oaks. The contingent is led by Florida shipper Forever Together and California invader Baroness Thatcher.

Rags to Riches overwhelmed her competition in Sunday’s running of the Grade One, $300,000 Santa Anita Oaks, leaving her connections, owners Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith and trainer Todd Pletcher to contemplate if she should take on the colts in her next start.

Rags to Riches, already a Grade One winner at this track, will look to build on her success in last month’s Las Virgenes when she faces many of the same foes in the Santa Anita Oaks (GI) Sunday.

  Gomez, who won a pair of stakes on New Year's Day, extended his 2007 streak at the track to three early in the afternoon when he rode 3-1 second choice Baroness Thatcher to victory in the Grade III, $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.