Saratoga: Immersive, La Cara, Milady meet again in CCA Oaks

Eclipse Award winner Immersive gets a rematch with fellow millionaire La Cara and her lone conqueror Take Charge Milady when they go Saturday in the Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks for six 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga.

Entries were taken and post positions were drawn Sunday for the 1 1/8-mile race. Immersive and her regular jockey Manny Franco drew post 1. La Cara and Dylan Davis will go from post 6. Take Charge Milady and Kendrick Carmouche will break from post 4. The CCA Oaks will be run around two turns on the main track.

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Last year’s champion juvenile filly, Immersive is coming off the only loss of her career. She finished second by a neck to Take Charge Milady in the black-type, $175,000 Monomoy Girl Overnight Stakes on June 14 at Churchill Downs. That was her 2025 debut after bone bruising put her on trainer Brad Cox’s bench for more than seven months. The Godolphin homebred daughter of Nyquist went 4-for-4 as a 2-year-old including wins in the Spinaway (G1) at Saratoga, the Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar.

La Cara, Tracy Farmer’s homebred Street Sense filly, has won two of her last three starts. She sandwiched victories in the Ashland (G1) at Keeneland and the Acorn (G1) on June 6 at Saratoga around a weakening ninth-place result in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs. Trained by Mark Casse, she finished fifth to Immersive in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, their only meeting until now. La Cara also had stakes victories in the 2024 Pocahontas (G3) at Churchill and the Suncoast in February at Tampa Bay Downs.

Take Charge Milady tries for her third stakes win to go with the Martha Washington in January at Oaklawn and the Monomoy Girl. She is trained by Kenny McPeek, who won the CCA Oaks last year with eventual horse of the year Thorpedo Anna.

Sweet Seraphine, who finished first last month in the Wilton at Belmont at the Big A, also was entered as were last year’s Frizette (G1) winner Scottish Lassie and maiden winner Dry Powder.