Thorpedo Anna headlines the Grade 1 CCA Oaks on Saturday at Saratoga
By NY Hot List staff | Thursday, July 18, 2024
The Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga features Thorpedo Anna who is the clear leader of the 3-year-old filly division based on her three open-length victories this year in the Acorn (G1) and the Kentucky Oaks (G1).
The five-horse field, which will race 1 1/8 miles, includes two other Grade 1 winners and the only horse to beat Thorpedo Anna in her six-race career.
Trained by Ken McPeek, Thorpedo Anna has been racing and training at Saratoga since just before her victory in the Acorn during the Belmont at Saratoga meeting in June.
“She’s done great here and she goes out the first set. She’s been happy,” said McPeek. “She does everything we ask her. She likes her work and she’s an easy filly to be around. She eats extremely well, which is not something that all fillies do. She’s aggressive in the feed tub at night, and that makes our job a lot easier when she’s like that.”
$500,000 CCA Oaks (G1) at Saratoga, Saturday, Race 11, 6:17 pm ET.
(3) Thorpedo Anna comes to the CCA Oaks (G1) as the undisputed leader of the 3-year-old filly division based on her impressive victories in her last three starts in the Acorn (G1) at the Belmont at Saratoga meeting last month, the Kentucky Oaks (G1), and the Fantasy (G2). She won all three by more than four lengths. She has only one loss in six career starts and that was last year in the Golden Rod (G2). (1) Candied is one of the other Grade 1 winners in the field having taken the Alcibiades (G1) as a 2-year-old. This year she was fourth in the Ashland (G1) and had a recent victory in the Lady’s Secret at Monmouth Park. (4) Leslie’s Rose was second behind Thorpedo Anna in her last two starts in the Acorn and the Kentucky Oaks. Before that she won the Ashland (G1) at Keeneland. (5) Intricate is the last horse to defeat the top choice and that happened last year in the Golden Rod. This year she has three starts without a victory but was second in June in the Monomoy Girl at Churchill.
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