Minding heads Oaks entries for O'Brien Ante-post favourite Minding is the star name among 61 entries for the Investec Oaks at Epsom. The daughter of Galileo claimed back-to-back Group One prizes in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and the Fillies' Mile last season and heads the betting for both the Oaks on June 3 and the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 1. Minding is one of 16 entries for Aidan O'Brien, who has saddled five previous winners of the mile-and-a-half Classic. Ballydoyle, Coolmore and Alice Springs are also among the potential raiders from County Tipperary. First-season trainer George Scott has entered impressive Kempton winner Cajoled. The High Chaparral filly is owned and bred by the Niarchos family whose colours were carried by 2007 Investec Oaks heroine Light Shift, trained by the late Sir Henry Cecil. Scott spent two years as assistant trainer to Lady Cecil before embarking on his own training career. Scott said: " We have been really happy with Cajoled over the winter and made the decision after she won her maiden that we would wait for the turf. "It is a bit of a speculative entry off a mark of 73, but she is well-bred and deserves an entry at this stage. "I am going to start her in a little handicap somewhere, hopefully win that and then squeeze in a trial before Epsom if we get that far. "We are pretty realistic about it because she has got a hell of a long way to go to be in that bracket, but when you train for owner-breeders like the Niarchos family, they are in the game to produce horses like her and we would kick ourselves further down the line if she wasn't entered." Other contenders include Godolphin's First Victory, the Jim Bolger-trained Turret Rocks and Andastra from Ralph Beckett's yard. This year sees The Queen celebrate her 90th birthday and she has an Oaks entry in the William Haggas-trained Daphne, who made one appearance at Newbury last season. Her Majesty has won the Classic twice, thanks to Carrozza (1957) and Dunfermline (1977). There are two entries from France in the Aga Khan's unraced Eneryda (Mikel Delzangles) and The Juliet Rose (Nicholas Clement), a maiden winner at Saint-Cloud in November. Kenny McPeek supplies a rare US-trained entry with Dothraki Queen.
