Harvey's Lil Goil

9) HARVEY'S LIL GOIL (American Pharoah–Gloria S, by Tapit)
O-Estate of Harvey A. Clarke & Paul Braverman. B-Harvey A. Clarke (KY). T-Bill Mott. Lifetime Record: SW, 3-2-0-0, $96,600.
Last Start: 1st Busanda S., AQU, Feb. 2
Next Start: GII Gazelle S., AQU, Apr. 4
Equineline PPs. KY Oaks Points: 10.

With three starts, a maiden win and a stakes win, on paper, she looks a lot like stablemate Lake Avenue. Both have also won at nine furlongs.

Harvey's Lil Goil made her way into the Kentucky Oaks Top 10 with a runaway win in the Feb. 2 Busanda S. at Aqueduct. Because the Busanda is an ungraded stakes run in the middle of the winter in New York, it's fair to question the quality of the competition she beat, but she certainly did it the right way, winning by 7 1/2 lengths after hesitating at the start.

She's still got a lot to prove and needs points to guarantee a spot in the Oaks, but Mott is not going to push her.

“She won the Busanda off a seven-week layoff and with little training,” he said. “I think she will be ready to run in the Gazelle. I'm thinking that if I put two more races into her before the Oaks it would be more than necessary. I want to save enough horse because she might be an Alabama-type filly because it looks like distance is not an issue for her. I want to save something for a little later in the year.”

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