Heavily-favored Shedaresthedevil added to her Kentucky Oaks resume with a dominant five-length victory over 14-1 Impeccable Style in Wednesday’s $200,000 Indiana Oaks at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino.

The Grade 3 victory was worth 20 points toward Kentucky Oaks qualifying and put Shedaresthedevil into third on the Oaks leader board with 90 points, trailing only her stablemate Bonny South (100) and Swiss Skydiver (a whopping 310).

“Super proud of her,” said Staton Flurry, co-owner of Shedaresthedevil. “She’s nice. I’d say we’re definitely in the conversation for the (Kentucky) Oaks right now. We’re for sure going to run, but I think we’re very well toward the top of being one of the top contenders. Hopefully she runs like she did today come the first Friday in September. It’s weird saying that. Let’s hope this year is the only time we have to say it.”

Shedaresthedevil certainly ran to her odds as the 3-5 favorite in the field of eight 3-year-old fillies to kick off a huge parlay for trainer Brad Cox and jockey Florent Geroux, who teamed in the next race to win the $300,000, Grade 3 Indiana Derby with Shared Sense. Cox, one of the leading trainers at Indiana Grand, won both stakes for the first time.

“We expected her to run well,” he said. “She’d been training the part since her last race at Churchill, where she ran a big race. It was a good trip, she responded well. I thought she looked great at the quarter pole. Florent had to kind of reach around and keep her alert the last sixteenth of a mile. He said she kind of got a little lost late. But when he asked her the last sixteenth, she really kicked on. Overall it was a big effort, exactly what we were looking for. I was real pleased with her.”

Geroux had Shedaresthedevil settled into second behind the speedy Miss T Too, taking command on the middle of the far turn and romping through the stretch to wrap up 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.50. She paid $3.20 to win. 

“It ran kind of the way we thought it was going to run,” Geroux said. “With Julien (Leparoux on Miss T Too) going to the front, I was able to sit second, and she was very relaxed and was able to keep up with the pace no problem. She was waiting a little bit down the stretch. Last time at Churchill she was a little more focused, because she’s there every day and here she didn’t know (surroundings) too much. She was waiting a little bit on horses and waiting for my signal to keep going. I gave her few taps at the eighth pole just to keep her focused, and it was just a matter of how many lengths by which she was going to win.”

Impeccable Style, with Indiana Grand’s leading rider Deshawn Parker aboard, put the most pressure on Shedaresthedevil and settled for second-best.

“It was a good race,” said Kenny McPeek, trainer of Impeccable Style as well as Swiss Skydiver. “The obvious favorite won it. But yeah, I was pleased. She’s a good filly… She is in the Fasig-Tipton sale Monday (in Lexington). So, I’m not sure exactly how that will go. They’ll probably put a high reserve on her.”

Bayerness, ridden by Rafael Bejarano, finished another 1 3/4 lengths back in third. 

“It’s her second time getting graded stakes-placed,” said trainer Cherie DeVaux. “She was third in the Dogwood. Both times she was the only one who came running at the end. She puts in her race every time.”

Fire Coral finished fourth, followed by Miss T Too, Gibberish, Spartanka and Alandra. Aurelia Garland, Lucky Betty and Tempers Rising were scratched.

Shedaresthedevil won her debut at Churchill Downs last year with trainer Norm Casse. She went out to California, where she was trained by Simon Callaghan and finished fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Put in the Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale, the filly was purchased for $280,000 by the partnership of Qatar Racing, Flurry Racing and Big Aut Farms and turned over to Cox.

This year Shedaresthedevil won Oaklawn Park’s Grade 3 Honeybee, was third in the Grade 3 Fantasy won by Swiss Skydiver and then took a Churchill Downs allowance race by six lengths. She now is 4-2-2 in nine starts, earning $501,768 with the $116,400 payday.

“Very, very proud of her,” Cox said. “I think she’s only going to get better with more distance and maybe even when she gets older.”

Live racing continues through Wednesday, Nov. 18. Action is held Monday through Thursday beginning at 2:20 p.m. Post times for the all-Quarter Horse programs is to be determined.