Thread: American Oaks
View Single Post
  #2  
Old 06-26-2006, 09:45 AM
zippyneedsawin's Avatar
zippyneedsawin zippyneedsawin is offline
Oaklawn
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 2,064
Default

Lady of Venicehas been invited, I haven't heard if she'll run yet though. Here's the list of nominees(from a DRF article):

The 14 invitations to the Grade 1 American Oaks were issued on Sunday to 3-year-old fillies from six countries.

Aside from Attima, the locally based hopefuls include Foxysox, Proxenia, and Galileo's Star, who were second through fourth in the Honeymoon Handicap; and Sol Mi Fa, who won the Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Oaks in her U.S. debut on May 29.

The shippers from other circuits are Lady of Venice, the winner of Saturday's Grade 3 Regret Stakes at Churchill Downs; Perilous Pursuit, who won the Late Bloomer Stakes at Belmont Park on June 11; the unbeaten Pine Island, who has yet to run in a stakes; and Wait a While, winner of the Sands Point Stakes at Belmont Park on June 3.

The international team is led by Dionisia, who won Sunday's Group 1 Italian Oaks. The others are Arravale, a two-time stakes winner from Canada; the Japanese stakes winner Asahi Rising; Fauvelia, a stakes-placed filly from France; and Queen Cleopatra, who was third in the French Oaks on June 11 and is trained in Ireland by Aidan O'Brien.

The list of starters is subject to change. Since the race was launched in 2002, the list of starters has changed between the time that invitations were issued and race day because



http://drf.com/drfNewsArticle.do?NID=75645&subs=0&arc=1
__________________
Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems. -Homer Simpson
Reply With Quote