Most Victorians Generally refer to "The Races" as the horse racing carnivals during spring. The most popular ones being Derby Day, Melbourne Cup, Caulfied Cup and Oaks Day.
The winner of the AJC Oaks in 2008 was Heavenly Glow! (The horse I was going for!)
I assume you meant the Kentucky Oaks and it was Bold 'n Determined
Rachel Alexandra
The Epsom Oaks.
Five, they are The derby, St ledger, The oaks, the 1000 guineas and the 2000 guineas.
Epsom Downs
st leger
Tannin
"War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull has 320 pages in the paperback edition.
The short (and not sarcastic, either--is: all of them). Horse racing is comprised of many types and levels of races and the Commonwealth of Kentucky is host to all of them at its four racetracks: Churchill Downs (Louisville), Keeneland (Lexington), Turfway Park (Florence) and Ellis Park (Henderson). The most famous of the races however are obviously the Kentucky Derby held on the First Sat. in May at Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Oaks, for 3 yr. old fillies held the Fri. before Derby day. Other famous races held in KY include the Stephen Foster Handicap (Churchill), the Bluegrass Stakes (Keeneland) and the Lanes End (Turfway). And these are just a small sampling. There are horse races held in Kentucky on roughly 300 out of 365 day per year!
The winner of the Kentucky Oaks 2014 receivedd US$600,000 or 60% of the million dollar purse. Of course the owner must share some of theat with the trainer and the Jockey.