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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Saturday, May 6, 2023)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Basking in the attention of her fans,\u00a0Pretty Mischievous<\/b>, the winner of Kentucky Oaks 149, enjoyed her morning in trainer\u00a0Brendan Walsh<\/b>\u2019s barn.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe are very proud of what she has accomplished and it couldn\u2019t be more special winning this for\u00a0Godolphin<\/b>,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cThere are some big races that we\u2019ll look at coming up, but no decision has been made on her next start.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Breaking cleanly from the far outside post and piloted by\u00a0Tyler Gaffalione<\/b>, Pretty Mischievous made her winning move at the top of the stretch and fought off the late-flying\u00a0Gambling Girl<\/b>\u00a0through the lane. The daughter of Into Mischief by the Tapit mare Pretty City Dancer is a Godolphin homebred, its first Oaks champion.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>GAMBLING GIRL (second) \u2013 Repole Stable\u2019s Gambling Girl<\/span><\/b>, second by a neck in Friday\u2019s 149th Kentucky Oaks, came out of the race in good order and will head up to New York in the coming week with trainer\u00a0Todd Pletcher<\/b>\u2019s string.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe was just excellent after the race,\u201d the conditioner said. \u201cShe came out of it well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pletcher has won the Kentucky Oaks four times and now run second in \u201cThe Run for the Lillies\u201d five times. The daughter of Dialed In picked up a check for $227,500 for her efforts and now has $484,910 in earnings after 10 starts.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>THE ALYS LOOK (third)\/WET PAINT (fourth)\/BOTANICAL (13th)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Trainer\u00a0Brad Cox<\/b>\u00a0reported that all three of his Kentucky Oaks runners were doing well Saturday morning although he had not had time to fully evaluate them yet.\u00a0The Alys Look<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Wet Paint<\/b>, the favorite, finished third and fourth respectively, while\u00a0Botanical<\/b>\u00a0was 13th, her first loss in her past five starts.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSo far so good,\u201d Cox said. \u201cThey all came back sound. I have zero clue where we\u2019re going next. Botanical looked like she got a bad break. I really expected her to break well and be close. Wet Paint was fine. No real excuse. I thought The Alys Look ran well. Just a little disappointing when you have the favorite and don\u2019t get the result you want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>DORTH VADER (fifth) \u2013 John Ropes<\/span><\/b>\u2019\u00a0Dorth Vader<\/b>\u00a0was back at Barn 41 Saturday morning following her fifth-place finish in Saturday\u2019s Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe enjoyed our time here in Kentucky and are proud of her,\u201d\u00a0Michael \u201cBo\u201d Yates<\/b>\u00a0said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>FLYING CONNECTION (sixth)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brad King, Randy Andrews, G. Chris Coleman, Jim Cone, Suzanne Kirby and Lee Lewis<\/b>\u2019\u00a0Flying Connection<\/b>, the pacesetter in Friday\u2019s Oaks, came out of the race fine and is slated to get a break.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe is leaving today and will go to a farm for three weeks and then go to Ruidoso Downs (in New Mexico),\u201d said\u00a0Oscar Rojero<\/b>, exercise rider and assistant to trainer\u00a0Todd Fincher<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>DEFINING PURPOSE (seventh)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Trainer\u00a0Kenny McPeek<\/b>\u00a0said his filly, owned by\u00a0Magdalena Racing, Collette Marie Vanmatre\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0James Ball<\/b>, came out of the Oaks in good shape after finishing seventh.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe is fine in the barn, eating well, with no problems,\u201d McPeek said at his barn Saturday morning. \u201cWe\u2019ll nominate her to the Delaware Oaks, the Indiana Oaks and Iowa Oaks. Then we\u2019ll see which one best suits her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>MIMI KAKUSHI (eighth)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum<\/b>\u2019s\u00a0Mimi Kakushi<\/b>\u00a0is scheduled to leave Monday and return to Dubai and rejoin the string of trainer\u00a0Salem bin Ghadayer<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mimi Kakushi received a ground-saving trip under\u00a0Mickael Barzalona<\/b>\u00a0just behind the leading trio until the far turn where she began to give way.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>WONDER WHEEL (ninth) \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/b>After finishing ninth in Kentucky Oaks 149,\u00a0D.J. Stable<\/b>\u2019s\u00a0Wonder Wheel<\/b>\u00a0returned to the barn doing wonderfully.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe came back great, cooled out, had playful energy,\u201d\u00a0David Carroll<\/b>, the assitant trainer for\u00a0Mark Casse<\/b>, said. \u201cShe took a bump out of the gate, but she never ran.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connections are still deciding what is next for the champion 2-year-old filly from 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>SOUTHLAWN (10th) \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Trainer\u00a0Norm Casse<\/b>\u00a0reported all was well with\u00a0Southlawn<\/b>\u00a0Saturday morning after the Oaks.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No immediate plans have been laid out for her next start.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>AFFIRMATIVE LADY (11th)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0—\u00a0AMO Racing USA<\/b>\u2019s\u00a0Affirmative Lady<\/b>\u00a0is scheduled to go to Keeneland on Sunday and then head to trainer\u00a0Graham Motion<\/b>\u2019s main based at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland later in the week.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe is good this morning,\u201d said\u00a0Alice Clapham<\/b>, Motion\u2019s longtime assistant. \u201cJohnny (jockey\u00a0John Velazquez<\/b>) said she broke well yesterday but then found herself at the back going into the first turn somehow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Breaking from post 13, Affirmative Lady shied from horses to her inside going into the first turn and was last in the field of 14 after a half-mile and never threatened.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b>PROMISEHER AMERICA (14th) \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/b>The day after finishing in the back of the Kentucky Oaks pack,\u00a0Hoffman Thoroughbreds<\/b>,\u00a0Tom McCrocklin<\/b>, and\u00a0Medallion Racing<\/b>\u2019s\u00a0Promiseher America<\/b>\u00a0enjoyed her morning grazing in the clover pasture outside her barn.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe is doing great,\u201d\u00a0Rodrigo Montecino<\/b>, the assistant trainer for\u00a0Ray Handal<\/b>, said. \u201cShe broke good but at some point decided she didn\u2019t want to run her race.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gazelle winner will head back to New York as connections figure out her next start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Saturday, May 6, 2023) – Basking in the attention of her fans, Pretty Mischievous, the winner of Kentucky Oaks 149, enjoyed her morning in trainer Brendan Walsh’s barn. “We are very proud of what she has accomplished and it couldn’t be more special winning this for Godolphin,” Walsh said. “There are some big races that we’ll look at coming up, but no decision has been made on her next start.” Breaking cleanly from the far outside post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,52,2044],"tags":[2178,2090,2173,2174,2172,2176,1722,2092,2177],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-events-magazine","category-events-magazine","category-magazine","tag-brad-cox","tag-brendan-walsh","tag-gambling-girl","tag-godolphin","tag-pretty-mischievous","tag-the-alys-look","tag-todd-pletcher","tag-tyler-gaffalione","tag-wet-paint"],"yoast_head":"\n