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Kentucky Oaks 2018

From sullen teenager to the Kentucky Oaks: Stepwise Farm’s New York-bred Midnight Disguise

On a cold March afternoon, Joan Taylor and Bill Wilmot stood in the paddock at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. They’d traveled nearly four hours from their farm in Saratoga Springs to watch Holiday Disguise, the 4-year-old filly they’d bred and sold as a weanling, run in the Heavenly Prize Stakes and try to…

March 26, 2018 in Kentucky Oaks 2018, New York-breds.

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