Epsom Oaks Odds - Opera the Star at the Top of Market for Fillies' Second Classic

Run at the end of May this year, the Epsom Oaks still sees 58 fillies potentially in contention for the third Classic of the season in Great Britain. Unsurprisingly, it is Ballydoyle who hold sway in the ante-post markets with impressive Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Opera Singer at the head of the betting for Aidan O’Brien.

After a sedate start to her racing career, Opera Singer really took off at the end of her juvenile season, winning her last two starts by a combined 11½ lengths. Her Racing Post Ratings improved throughout the season, each start seeing her going up by at least 8lb every time though she is a half sister to a number of horses who were only at their best over 1m.

Her stablemate Ylang Ylang is favourite for the 1,000 Guineas and second in here. She also claimed her first Group 1 at the end of her juvenile season, battling on gamely to win the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket. However, she certainly is bred to stay further and her efforts towards the end of 2023 firmly suggested she will end up being ideally suited by a middle distance trip.

No other filly in the ante-post market possesses a best price shorter than 20/1 just under two months out from the race. Next in is John & Thady Gosden’s Regal Jubilee for Cheveley Park Stud. Her pedigree should ensure she sees this trip out very nicely and her form improved takingly towards the end of the season, in which she won the Listed Montrose Fillies’ Stakes.

Both Dance Sequence and One Look are prominent, like Ylang Ylang, in the 1,000 Guineas betting and are fillies whose best distances are as yet unknown after only two winning starts each. Fallen Angel and See The Fire are others in the top ten in both the Newmarket and Epsom markets.

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