Hat Creek Racing’s Percy’s Bar exited her 2¼-length victory over favored Zany in Friday’s Central Bank Ashland (G1) in good order with the next stop being the $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs on May 1.

“She will have all her works here,” trainer Ben Colebrook said. “She’s a Keeneland horse and she has already won at Churchill. We will wait until the last second to when we have to be there.”

Percy’s Bar received a ground-saving trip from jockey Luan Machado and came through a narrow opening approaching the top of the stretch to spurt clear and open enough daylight to fend off Zany.

“You could see that Luan was loaded, but I was concerned with the :50 (second half-mile) with a quality filly of (Mark) Casse’s (French Friction) on an unopposed lead and the short stretch,” Colebrook said. “I thought Zany was going to get the jump on us, so that was definitely the move.”

Colebrook praised Percy’s Bar’s courage to make her move in tight quarters along the rail.

“The last time she ran (in the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies-G1), she got bounced off the rail pretty good,” Colebrook said. “It took a lot of courage to stick her head in there and when she did, she just shot right on through.”

Trainer Todd Pletcher said Repole Stable’s Zany came out of the race in good order and a decision on where she would train for the Oaks “would be made this morning after talking with Mr. (Mike) Repole.”

“I thought she ran a good race and galloped out well,” Pletcher said. “The winner ran a good race and cut the corner on us (at the top of the stretch).”

Pletcher has won the Oaks four times, trailing only Woody Stephens and D. Wayne Lukas with five for the most all time. His first win came with Ashado in 2004 and was followed by Rags to Riches (2007), Princess of Sylmar (2013) and Malathaat (2021).