The 138th running of the Kentucky Oaks has arrived and Grace Hall, winner of the March 31 Gulfstream Park Oaks, will break from post 2 as the 5-2 morning line favorite. The race will take place at 5:45 p.m. ET at Churchill Downs, Ky. on NBC Sports Network.
Grace Hall has never finished worse than second in her six starts, with additional victories in the Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga and the Blue Hen Stakes at Delaware Park at 2. The three-year-old filly will try to stretch that streak to seven by beating out 14 other three-year-old fillies in the nine-furlong (1 and 1/8 miles) race. The winner will win $600,000 out of the $1 million purse as well as the customary large garland of lilies appropriately called the "Lillies for the Fillies."
Anita Cauley's homebred filly On Fire Baby, winner of the Honeybee Stakes in her last start and the 4-1 co-second choice with Broadway's Alibi, will break from the rail of the May 4 race.
Oaks Lilly did not draw into the main body of the field and will serve as an alternate.
Here are the entries, jockeys, post positions and morning line odds for the 2012 Kentucky Oaks.
Post Horse Jockey Morning Line Odds
1 On Fire Baby Joe Johnson 4-1
2 Grace Hall Javier Castellano 5-2
3 Summer Applause Garrett Gomez 15-1
4 Eden's Moon Martin Garcia 12-1
5 Hard Not to Like Robby Albarado 20-1
6 Broadway's Alibi John Velazquez 4-1
7 Sacristy Mike Smith 50-1
8 Jemima's Pearl Joe Talamo 10-1
9 Believe You Can Rosie Napravnik 10-1
10 And Why Not Julien Leparoux 15-1
11 Karlovy Vary James Graham 20-1
12 Colonial Empress Corey Nakatani 50-1
13 Amie's Dini Jon Court 10-1
14 Yara Jesus Castanon 30-1
AE Oaks Lilly Rafael Bejarano 50-1
