Champion Vequist Tops 106 Early Nominees To Kentucky Oaks Sponsored by:
Vequist, with Joel Rosario aboard, winning the Juvenile Fillies
Champion 2-year-old filly Vequist, winner of the $2 million Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies (Grade 1), tops the roster of 106 early nominations to the $1.25 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1), North America s premier race for 3-year-old fillies that will be staged at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. on Friday, April 30.
Owned in partnership by Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Swillcan Stable and trained by Butch Reid Jr., Vequist was a dominant two-length winner of the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies. The daughter of Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist is based at Palm Meadows in South Florida and is entered in Saturday s $200,000 Davona Dale (G2) at Gulfstream Park.
Playing Favorites in the Pegasus World Cups
Playing Favorites in the Pegasus World Cups
21 January, 2021 5:50 PM
By J. Keeler Johnson ( Keelerman ) Twitter: @J Keelerman
We ve all heard the phrase chalk-eating
weasel to describe a horseplayer who isn t afraid to bet on favorites. It s a humorous
term, and certainly I ve been known to eat my fair share of chalk through the
years.
But chalk-eating weasel
doesn t really capture how heavily I ll be relying on favorites at Gulfstream
Park this Saturday. The
$3 million
Pegasus World Cup (G1) and the
$1
million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) are the highlights of the afternoon,
with a dozen runners slated to contest each race. Surely this is a prime