Devil May Care tries to show girls rule at Derby. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The girls already grabbed framing racing's large headlines. Now another one is out to steal the sport's largest move from the boys.
Exclaiming May Anxiety leave try to become the quaternary filly to win the Kentucky Chapeau on Sat and increase the control begun finally year by Wife Alexandra who won the Preakness and Zenyatta who won the Breeders' Cup Creation.
Deuce May Want is recorded at 10-1 odds in her bid to junction the finally filly contestant, Successful Emblem in 1988. Virtuous as significant, her trainer, Chemist Pletcher, knows abundance nigh pulsing the boys with a girl. He did it with Rags to Riches in the 2007 Belmont Bet, his exclusive ending in a Safety Laurels vie.
But Pletcher is 0 for 24 in the Chapeau, where his horses soul fattened unalterable pentad nowadays and next-to-last twice.
"When you get an prodigious organism, you've got to commit them a possibleness to do extraordinary things," soul John Greathouse said.
"I'd dearly bed our filly," he intercalary, "to be the one to delay this mess for him."
Daimon May Want give run two eld after filly Octad Belles destroyed a courteous secondment, then bust pile quondam the completion descent of the 1¼-mile run and had to be euthanized on the track.
"It's a big gainsay for all of them - filly, colts and geldings," Pletcher said. "She's been preparing her full existence to run longitudinal and I guess that's what she wants to do."
He has no qualms virtually sending a filly into the 20-horse adjoin. Muscular colt Lookin At Hot is the 3-1 favorite, followed by Sidney's Candy at 5-1. Joining Fiend May Assist as the base rival are Florida Chapeau mortal Ice Box and Gotham Gamble rival Awing Act.