High Dollar Woman rings up win in Indiana Oaks (G2)

Super Saver’s High Dollar Woman turned in a superlative performance in Saturday evening’s $200,000 Indiana Oaks (G2), sprinting to the front and repelling all her challengers to get her first stakes victory.

Not necessarily known as a front-runner, jockey Joe Rocco nevertheless got his filly out to the front almost immediately and covered the first half-mile in :48.04. Sweetgrass, who was always her closest pursuer, made a final try for the lead in mid-stretch, but High Dollar Woman turned her back and prevailed in 1:43.49 for the 1 1/16-miles on the sloppy track (VIDEO).

“I thought (All Day Alice) would be on the lead,” Rocco said, “but I hustled (High Dollar Woman) out of there a little bit and then she was just there in the front. I let her get comfortable and she had plenty to come home for the drive. I thought we’d be close—not necessarily in front, but that’s how it worked out.”

Bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm, High Dollar Woman is out of the stakes-placed Fusaichi Pegasus mare Melissa Jo, sister to two multiple stakes winners who also has produced stakes-placed winner Joedini.

Owned by Alex and JoAnn Lieblong, High Dollar Woman’s slate stands at 3-1-0 from seven starts. She has now earned $210,945. The Lieblongs bought High Dollar Woman for $675,000 at last year’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training.

High Dollar Woman is part of Super Saver’s first crop, which has turned out to be one of the best ever by a Derby winner and includes the likes of Grade 1 horses Competitive Edge and I Spent It. Super Saver is available this year to southern hemisphere mares for $20,000 live foal.