I'm off to Oaklawn to cover the Martha Washington Stakes, a points race for the Kentucky Oaks (sort of the female equivalent of the Kentucky Derby. It's for three-year-old fillies rather than colts). But, like the U.S. Women's Open, most people, including racing fans, don't give a fuck.
My goal is to write a lead worthy of posting here.
FUCK, WHO KNOWS?
HOT SPRINGS — Certainties are a rare quality in horse racing and virtually unheard of for racehorses who have just turned three years old.
Consequently, as jockey David Cohen maneuvered Power Gal, by Empire Maker, into position for an attempted pass of a three-horse wall in the final turn of the $125,000 Martha Washington Stakes for three-year-old fillies at Oaklawn Park on Saturday, he didn’t know exactly what to expect.
But experience with Power Gal in morning workouts did leave Cohen confident enough to say he wasn’t surprised as she passed, in order, Sheza Handfull, Taylor’s Spirit, and Marathon Queen as they neared the wire to win her first stakes start and earn 10 Road-to-the-Kentucky-Oaks points in the first of three significant Oaks preps at Oaklawn.
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