Best Bets for the Kentucky Oaks: Wet Paint, Gambling Girl

• Wet Paint is the current favorite to finish first with +300 odds at the 2023 Kentucky Oaks.
• Gambling Girl to finish in the top three with +425 odds is one of the best bets of the race.
• Over the last three years, one pre race favorite has finished first at the Kentucky Oaks.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As the Kentucky Oaks is the third most popular horse race by attendance, there are many different ways to wager on the individual horses. Legal sports betting sites offer odds on the winning horse, along with the finishing position of the top thoroughbred fillies.

2023 Kentucky Oaks Odds by Gate Number

• 1. Mimi Kakushi +3300
• 2. The Alys Look +2000
• 3. Gambling Girl +1600
• 4. Southlawn +700
• 5. Wonder Wheel +1200
• 6. Botanical +500
• 7. Wet Paint +300
• 8. Promiseher America +2500
• 9. And Tell Me Nolies +1600
• 10. Flying Connection +2000
• 11. Defining Purpose +1400
• 12. Dorth Vader +2500
• 13. Affirmative Lady +1000
• 14. Pretty Mischievous +1100
• 15. Taxed +2000
• 16. Julia Shining +1600
• 17. Hoosier Philly +2500

Betting on the Favorite at the Kentucky Oaks

Wet Paint is the current favorite at legal horse betting sites to win and is accompanied by a trainer and a jockey that know how to win races at the highest level. Flavien Prat is the Wet Paint’s jockey for the race. While he has never won finished first at the Kentucky Oaks, he has a 2019 Kentucky Derby and a 2021 Belmont Stakes first place win under his belt.

Brad Cox is Wet Paint’s trainer and is a big part of why the horse is favored to win the Kentucky Oaks. Cox has trained two Kentucky Oaks winning horses; one in 2018 and another in 2020. He also has two Triple Crown race wins in 2021 from the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes.

Over the last three years, Malathaat in 2021 was the only pre race favorite to win, with +250 odds. 2022 saw Secret Oath win the race with +600 odds, as the third favorite before the race began. 2020 saw a massive underdog finish first at the Kentucky Oaks, with Shedaresthedevil finishing in first with +2000 pre race odds.

Best Kentucky Oaks Underdog

Gambling Girl at +425 to finish in the top three is one of the best underdog bets on the 2023 Kentucky Oaks. The filly has one of the best horse trainers in the world with Todd Pletcher and a two-time Triple Crown race winning jockey in Irad Ortiz Jr. that won the 2022 Belmont Stakes with Mo Donegal.