Five G scratched from Kentucky Oaks

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Five G, the Gulfstream Park Oaks winner, was scratched out of Friday’s $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks, trainer George Weaver said Thursday morning.

“She’s been off her feed the last couple of days. She didn’t train with great energy this morning. I wasn’t happy the last couple of days. We don’t feel good about it,” Weaver said. “This is the type of race where you’ve got be 110 percent, and we don’t feel like she is.”

Five G, who was in post 8, was listed at 12-1 on the morning-line. In three starts on the dirt this year, she won the Cash Run Stakes by nine lengths and finished second to Quietside in the Honey Bee Stakes before winning the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks.

Though she had been winning her races on the lead, Weaver was looking forward to Five G sitting just off the pace in the Oaks “and not have such a pressured situation." Of this strategy, he explained, “I think it would have opened up some new doors.”

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Weaver said he would monitor Five G before deciding when and where to ship her in the coming days.

“We’ll let her get back in the feed and go from there,” Weaver said. “We might get her checked out, pull some blood. She’s a very good filly. Whether we’re able to make some of the races in New York like the Acorn, we’ll just see how things go. But it’s not the right thing to do to let her run tomorrow.”

The scratch of Five G reduces the Oaks field to 13.

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