With the Kentucky Oaks - the premier race of the year for three-year-old fillies - closing in, Robert Criscola offers his picks and predictions regarding the Top 3 finishers, including analysis of Thorpedo Anna.There's no calm before the storm on the day before the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, as over 100,000 people will crowd the grounds on Friday afternoon when the 150th Kentucky Oaks takes place.
Thorpedo Anna retains the services of jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. here, and her final tune-up work at Churchill was a sharp one. Trainer Ken McPeek has placed second in the Oaks three times, but this might be the year he gets over the hump.Tarifa has lost only one race in her five-start career, and it came in her only try at Churchill Downs.
The Chad Brown pupil has run only once in 2024, settling for second in the Grade II Gulfstream Park Oaks after holding the lead in the final furlong. Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. sent her into the six-path to make her late run, and No. 12 Power Squeeze was able to beat her with a better-timed ride under Daniel Centeno. Tyler Gaffalione picks up in the mount on Ways and Means on Friday, and he knows the Churchill course as well as any rider in this field.
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