The Smart Money
2012 Kentucky Oaks Field
Results
| Finish | Horse | Win | Place | Show |
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| 1 |  #9 Believe You Can |
$29.60 | $11.80 | $6.40 |
| 2 |  #6 Broadway’s Alibi |
$6.00 | $4.20 | |
| 3 |  #2 Grace Hall |
$3.20 | ||
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Entries
| PP | ML | Horse | Jockey | Trainer |
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| 1 | 4-1 |  On Fire Baby |
Joe Johnson | Gary Hartlage |
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Action’s Line: Multiple Grade 2 winner at this track has been pointed here for a long time. |
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| 2 | 5-2 | Grace Hall |
Javier Castellano | Anthony Dutrow |
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Action’s Line: Grade 1-placed over this strip and now is better than last time here. |
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| 3 | 15-1 |  Summer Applause |
Garrett Gomez | Bret Calhoun |
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Action’s Line: Working well; added ground will help this filly immensely. Always running in the lane. |
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| 4 | 12-1 |  Eden’s Moon |
Martin Garcia | Bob Baffert |
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Action’s Line: Has yet to pass a horse in her career. Looks like a needs-to-lead type. |
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| 5 | 20-1 |  Hard Not to Like |
Robby Albarado | Gail Cox |
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Action’s Line: Bred to like the dirt, but picks a tough race to find out if she can handle it. |
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| 6 | 4-1 | Broadway’s Alibi |
John Velazquez | Todd Pletcher |
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Action’s Line: Is the speed of the race; first time testing two turns. Will be among favs, but buyer beware. |
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| 7 | 50-1 |  Sacristy |
Mike Smith | Wayne Catalano |
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Action’s Line: Yet to run two turns, but does have a win at Churchill. |
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| 8 | 10-1 |  Jemima’s Pearl |
Joe Talamo | Bob Baffert |
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Action’s Line: Ran well first time with Baffert. Training well and held her own in work with Bodemeister. |
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| 9 | 10-1 | Believe You Can |
Rosie Napravnik | Larry Jones |
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Action’s Line: Won, lost, won, lost, won … now loses? |
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| 10 | 15-1 |  And Why Not |
Julien Leparoux | Michael Matz |
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Action’s Line: Tough assignment off five-month layoff last out. She is training very well. |
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| 11 | 20-1 |  Karlovy Vary |
James Graham | George Arnold |
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Action’s Line: Only dirt try was this filly’s worst race, but she does come in off a Grade 1 victory. |
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| 12 | 50-1 |  Colonial Empress |
Corey Nakatani | D. Wayne Lukas |
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Action’s Line: The Lukas losing streak in graded stakes races continues. Maiden Special Weight necessary. |
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| 13 | 10-1 |  Amie’s Dini |
Jon Court | Ron Moquette |
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Action’s Line: Very consistent sort has done little wrong in her career. Looks like she’s sitting on a big run. |
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| 14 | 30-1 |  Yara |
Jesus Castanon | Jose Garoffalo |
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Action’s Line: She beat Grace Hall off a layoff, and that filly came back and beat her by 10 lengths. |
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| 15 AE | 50-1 |  Oaks Lily |
Rafael Bejarano | Timothy Hills |
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Action’s Line: The name fits, she doesn’t. |
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