Pamela Amato, a former emergency financial manager for tiny Three Oaks in southwestern Michigan, said when she took the job in 2009, she did not jump straight into the finances.

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Prior to Oaks, three-time Derby winner Baffert said in the paddock that he liked the chances of another of Pletcher's horse, the undefeated Verrazano.

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Moore, 26, has been champion jockey three times while Dunlop won the Oaks in 2004 with Ouija Board.

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