RAGS TO RICHES WINS KENTUCKY OAKS.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI Sports Editor Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Now is Michael Tabor Michael B. Tabor (born October 28, 1941, in East London, United Kingdom) is a businessman and a very prominent owner of Thoroughbred racehorses. Tabor was the owner of a successful chain of English betting shops and used his wealth to enter the sport of Thoroughbred horse sorry he didn't enter Rags to Riches in the Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. and make it a battle of the sexes? No, Rags to Riches' co-owner said Friday evening, he's a traditionalist. Maybe someday she'll run against colts. But not before she'd won the biggest race for 3-year-old fillies. That race turned out to be no contest as Santa Anita product Rags to Riches and jockey Garrett Gomez won the $589,200 Kentucky Oaks by 41/4 lengths as Octave completed a Todd Pletcher- trained exacta ex·act·a n. A method of betting, as on a horserace, in which the bettor must correctly pick those finishing in the first and second places in precisely that sequence. Also called perfecta. in front of a Derby-eve crowd of 100,075 at rainy Churchill Downs. "We might think about stepping up (to face males) now," Tabor said, without saying when. Rags to Riches, who went from a maiden to a 51/2-length Santa Anita Oaks Santa Anita Oaks is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Open to three-year-old fillies willing to race 8.5 furlongs (1 1/16 miles) on the dirt, it currently offers a purse of $300,000. winner in California this winter, rallied from the outside and kicked away in the Kentucky Oaks and stopped the clock in 1:49.99 for 11/8 miles on a sloppy track. That's one of the faster recent Oaks. Doug O'Neill- trained Mistical Plan finished fifth at 24-1 and 2-year-old fillies champion Dreaming of Anna Dreaming of Anna (foaled February 5, 2004 at Lantern Hill Farm in Midway, Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred filly racehorse. She was sired by the outstanding English and American stud, Rahy out of the Broad Brush mare, Justenuffheart, who was a multi graded stakes race winner finished sixth in the field of 14. Rags to Riches, a winner of four races in a row since a losing debut last June, paid $5. Her victory could be seen as a good omen for a number of Derby horses: Any of Pletcher's five, but specifically Circular Quay, with whom Rags to Riches trains in tandem workouts and who will be coming off an eight-week layoff as she was; and maybe Curlin, whose 10-week rise from maiden to major-race winner has been called too quick but is similar to hers. Pletcher won his second Kentucky Oaks, having done it in 2004 with Ashado and John Velazquez. Pletcher said of Rags to Riches: "She's an unbelievable filly, a true superstar. . . . We'll savor this one. But the one tomorrow is the one." |
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