Pure Fun draws post 7 for G1 KY Oaks

Pure Prize’s star 3-year-old filly Pure Fun drew post 7 of 11 3-year-old fillies entered in Friday’s $1 million Kentucky Oaks.

Pure Fun is one of ten stakes horses this year for her sire, who is Storm Cat’s leading active sire of 2-year-olds for the past two years. He stands this year at WinStar Farm for $7,500 LFS&N.

Pure Fun is the most experienced filly in the Oaks field, with 10 starts under her girth. Ironically, she has only one start on the dirt – a 9 1/4-length allowance victory over this same Churchill Downs track last Nov. 24. She subsequently shipped to Hollywood Park where she took the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet on Dec. 8.

This year Pure Fun has made two starts, finishing third in the Bourbonette Oaks (G3) at Turfway Park and then off the board against males in the Grade 3 Lexington S. at Keeneland.

Trainer Kenny McPeek was philosophical about Pure Fun’s last start.

“She came out of it good,” McPeek said of the Lexington. “I felt like she really needed the race over there. She was a bit behind the eight ball. We maybe laid her up a little longer than we should have or needed to. When we brought her back she gained more weight. The race did her more good than sitting on her and working her a couple more times so that sets her up good (for the Oaks).”

Pure Fun will be ridden Friday by Julien Leparoux.