Lightly raced Stoneway Farm homebred Ahh Chocolate (Candy Ride {Arg}) faces a solid group of 10 foes, but has a good shot to earn her first graded stakes tally in Saturday's GII Indiana Oaks. A rallying debut winner sprinting at Fair Grounds in February, she added a Keeneland allowance on the stretch out in April. The bay ran extremely well to be third considering circumstances in Pimlico's GII Black-Eyed Susan S. May 15–she was hung very wide throughout behind a glacial pace set by upset winner Keen Pauline (Pulpit). Second that day was Include Betty (Include), who put herself into the running for champion 3-year-old filly with a powerful last-to-first score in the GI Mother Goose S. last month. Oceanwave (Harlan's Holiday) was just a neck second to Include Betty in the GIII Fantasy S. at Oaklawn in April, before rallying from far back to be seventh in the GI Kentucky Oaks May 1. She was most recently fifth in the GI Acorn S. at Big Sandy June 6, and will likely need to show more early interest to give herself a chance here. Conversely, likely longshot All Day Alice (Posse) might have things her own way up front. She donned cap and gown two back sprinting May 30 over two easy next-out winners, and was third–one spot behind Emmajestic (Zensational– after setting an honest pace when stretching out at Churchill June 20. Pangburn (Congrats) missed GIII Iowa Oaks glory by just a nose June 27, and was a half-length in front of Sweetgrass (Street Sense) in third. The latter is one of two for trainer Ian Wilkes, who also sends out GI Ashland S. third Silverpocketsfull (Indian Charlie).
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