Winner Rags to Riches, Rest of Field Exit Oaks in Good Condition
Rags to Riches came out of her easy 4 1/4-length victory in Friday’s Kentucky Oaks (Grade 1) at Churchill Downs in good order and will soon travel to trainer Todd Pletcher’s base at Belmont Park in New York. She’ll be accompanied on the journey
Rags to Riches came out of her easy 4 1/4-length victory in Friday’s Kentucky Oaks (Grade 1) at Churchill Downs in good order and will soon travel to trainer Todd Pletcher’s base at Belmont Park in New York. She’ll be accompanied on the journey by stablemates Octave, who gave Pletcher the exacta in the Oaks, and Cotton Blossom, who finished ninth on Friday.
“They all came back well,” the conditioner said on Saturday as he was preparing his Kentucky Derby (G1) contingent. “We were a little concerned about Cotton Blossom given the way she was cut off so badly (in the stretch by a tiring Dreaming of Anna), but she seems to be fine.”
Rags to Riches returned to the site of her only loss when taking the Oaks, and now boasts three straight Grade 1 scores after capturing the Las Virgenes S. (G1) and Santa Anita Oaks (G1) in California.
“We don’t have anything specific in the way of plans for any of them,” Pletcher added. “We’ll wait a while and then make some decisions
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