_Will you kindly give me some facts about the race called the Oaks? It
is to settle a bet. I have always understood that the Oaks is a race
run two days after the Derby as a kind of consolation for those horses
which were unplaced in the Derby; but a friend says that he believes
I am mistaken and that the Oaks is for three-year-old fillies.--M. S.
(Hartlepool)._
Your friend, I am told, is right. You must have been confusing oaks with
acorns.