| Purrfect Bluff, ridden by Stewart Elliott, takes part in the post parade before winning race 6 by a neck. Like all of the races on Ladies' Day, this one, a five-furlong allowance moved from turf to dirt, was open only to female horses. |
| A racing fan, dressed in pink for Ladies' Day, watches horses enter the paddock. |
| Alexandra Rylee, in the walking ring before race 7, was scratched from the seven-furlong contest for two-year-olds after incurring a slight injury in the starting gate. |
| First Love awaits the start of race 7. She finished last of seven. |
| Dixie City, Angel Arroyo up, wins the seventh race by five lengths. |
| Even the programs were pink for Ladies' Day. |
| Honor Hymn, with Hiram Rivera, wins race 8 . . . |
| . . . and Crimson Glory, Joel Rosario up, is fourth. The five-furlong event, originally scheduled for turf, was run on the dirt. |
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Spacy Tracy finds herself in the winner's circle after race 9. She beat five others in the mile and one-sixteenth contest, which was moved from turf to dirt. |
| Blind Luck, having won nine of her thirteen lifetime starts, including the Kentucky Oaks and the Alabama, enters the paddock as the favorite in the grade II Cotillion Stakes. |
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Havre de Grace (with jockey Jeremy Rose) gets ready to face Blind Luck for the third time, after losing to her by a nose in the Delaware Oaks and by a neck in the Alabama. |
| Awesome Maria joins the post parade for the $750,000 Cotillion. |
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Bonnie Blue Flag (#4, with Kendrick Carmouche), Absinthe Minded, and Awesome Maria are at the front of the five-horse field at the start of the Cotillion. |
| Approaching the finish, Havre de Grace has the lead. Blind Luck, after trailing for much of the mile and a sixteenth, tries to catch her. |
| Jeremy Rose looks back at the rapidly approaching Blind Luck. |
| Blind Luck, ridden by Joel Rosario, takes second as Havre de Grace hangs on to win by a neck. |
| The Cotillion gave Havre de Grace her third win in seven starts. |
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