Free Like a Girl headed to Honeybee
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Free Like a Girl, a multiple stakes-winning Louisiana-bred based at Delta Downs, is being pointed to the Grade 3, $300,000 Honeybee at Oaklawn, trainer Chasey Deville Pomier said Thursday. The Honeybee is a Kentucky Oaks points race that shares a card with the Rebel next Saturday at Oaklawn.
Free Like a Girl, a five-time stakes winner, worked a bullet three-eighths in 36 seconds Friday at Delta Downs.
“We want to see what we’ve got,” Pomier said. “My dad is there, so we’ll send her up a little early and let her train over the track a little bit.”
Pomier, the daughter of trainer Carl Deville, said regular rider Pedro Cotto Jr. was committed as of Thursday to Free Like a Girl in the Honeybee.
Trainer Steve Asmussen said multiple stakes winner Optionality is being pointed to the Honeybee. Oaklawn racing secretary Pat Pope said Thursday that other probables are Secret Oath and Yuugiri.
First post for the card will be noon Central, and it will be stocked with allowance and maiden special weight races alongside the stakes, Pope said.