soothsay

It was a competitive race at the top of the stretch and until the final sixteenth when Soothsay pulled ahead to win by half a length.

Soothsay paid $10.40 and $3.60.

However, trainer Richard Mandella, seemed to hint Soothsay would not be going on to the Kentucky Oaks, the biggest race for 3-year-old fillies.

But, he added, the ability to soothsay where a young man is going to be five years from now requires the scout to dig even deeper.

He began to soothsay whether he should go or not.