The wait is over! the first of the two races runs today this is what marks each season of Churchill Downs.
The Kentucky Oaks, which previously ran on the same card, prior to the Kentucky Derby, with the passage of time has earned a special place and therefore divided the May party into two shows. Today it will be celebrated with in full. The fourteen assigned caissons will be full and as if that were not enough, there are two fillies waiting for some desertion before 8 o’clock in the morning.
Bellafina who is undefeated so far will jump to the track as the undisputed favorite, as the daughter of Quality Road of its eight starts, seven have been in degree races. Four of grade 1, only lost in the BC Juvenile for fillies and three of grade 2, level at which he has not known defeat. Flavien Prat, his rider, will be in charge of the controls instead of Simon Callaghan, who has 15 advantage in his last three performances.
Serengeti Empress is a time bomb, the retinta has a bipolar temperament clearly, giving one lime for another sand. He comes to bury his followers in Fair Grounds where he did a job that fans demanded the head of rider James Graham. José Ortiz is going to take the bull by the horns and we will see how he is doing with this participant.
Out For a Spin, surprised everyone at the Ashland by turning all the lights on the board after finishing 50-1, nobody believed in the debut of the daughter of Hard Spun in degree races. Irad Ortiz will take the place of the Mexican Paco López, who “watered” the tepache very ugly and will go to the freezer for a month.
I can not leave a comment in the pipeline for Positive Spirit, this descendant of Pioneroff The Nile is the only one of the whole group that has run the 1,800 meters, one winning by ten long and the last losing by some circumstances that were mitigating in their defeat. I definitely would not leave her out of the exotic ones.