While waiting for the off these are my distance calculations for the Oaks

Filly___________My Calc___Sire____________RP Sire__Damsire_______RP Sire__RP Calc

BANOFEE____________9.4____Hurricane Run_____10.7___Anabaa___________8.3_____9.9
GERTRUDE VERSED____8.9____Manduro___________10.6___Polar Falcon_____8.5_____9.9
LIBER NAUTICUS____10.4____Azamour___________10.5___Daylami_________11.6____10.9
MADAME DEFARGE_____9.7____Motivator_________10.8___Zafonic__________8.7____10.1
MISS YOU TOO______10.7____Montjeu___________11.7___Peintre Celebre_10.5____11.3
MOTH______________10.0____Galileo___________11.1___Seattle Slew_____8.9____10.4
ROZ________________9.1____Teofilo___________10.7___Anabaa___________8.3_____9.9
SAY_______________10.6____Galileo___________11.1___Dynaformer______11.4____11.2
SECRET GESTURE____10.1____Galileo___________11.1___Danehill_________9.2____10.5
TALENT____________10.4____New Approach_______9.3___Peintre Celebre_10.5_____9.7
THE LARK___________8.9____Pivotal____________7.8___In The Wings____11.8_____9.1

My Calc is my calculation of the average winning distances of the sire, dam's sire, dam's dam's sire, weighted 1.0, 0.5, 0.25.  Individual sire AWDs (= my decision) from various sources.
RP Calc is a calculation of the [(RP Sire AWD X 1) (sire) + (RP Sire AWD (dam's sire) X 0.5)] / 1.5.
What I do is give more weight to the sire's AWD (100%), and 50% to the 2nd generation sire, (and 25% to the 3rd gen sire).

Newer sires like New Approach might not have enough runners (or older runner).  This might give dodgy AWD figures.
US sires like Seattle Slew might also give dodgy AWS stats as they have had few runners over here.

Banoffee for me. I remember watching the race and thinking he was in all sorts of trouble, but as soon as she got in to clear air she took off. I think she's the each way play in the race.

Had a flutter on Moth.

secret gesture is a false fav in my book, I have her 5th in my ratings and there is every prospect she won't even place

Taken another look at this race through fresh eyes and I think that I have been guilty of overlooking the obvious which is that Secret Gesture really may be as good as she looked at Lingfield. The rain through the day makes time ratings very difficult to be confident about but what I can be confident about is how the horse finished the race. Despite the ground going soft, she covered the last 3f in under 36.0 which is pretty fast even on good ground, but she did it seemingly without coming off the bridle. She had bags in reserve. As for the ground, well the ground will not be as slow toady and looking at her action, she should be even better on better ground. No doubts about the trip given her pedigree and if she can handle Lingfield she can handle Epsom.What's more, the horse who finshed 11 lgtns behind her managed to come 3rd in the G2 Italian Oaks. At £150,000 to the winner and £36,000 to the 3rd (Secret Gesture picked up £22,000 at lingfield for winning)that's form due some respect.

Of the others, well neither Moth not Lieber Nauticus appeal on the figures at all and I would prefer Talent and Banoffee as dangers.

I still think it's between Moth and Liber Nauticus. Can't be massively confident as I don't have a great deal between them but I've backed Moth and included her in a double with BOM.

Be very surprised if the winner does not come from the 1st 3 in the betting.
Only having a small interest in the race for ££.
Moth to win, & place bet on Liber.
Gd luck all.

Me neither, even though she was possibly unexposed I would never have backed her. No excuses for Moth and SG ran better than I expected, well done winners.

Initial time rating is that that was a moderate race

Yes, Sandown, wondered if you'd had a few quid on. Like you say, can only be a preliminary rating but looks poor. I'd say a bit better than the previous 2 runnings (could hardly be worse really), but gotta go back to Eswarah to find another as poor. It's getting to be a bit of a disappointing race quality wise, not that backers at that price will be too bothered about that

Simon Rowlands ‏@Rowleyfile 1h
Remarkably slow closing sectional in The Oaks.

yeah will be interesting to see how it pans out in future races,think a few didn't run to form or handle the track tbh.

Looks to me like they went too strong a pace, thereby favouring those who came from rear.

Winner looked quite good I thought. She pounded them in the end.

They did seem to go a bit to hard from the off, especially on g/s ground, which did rather set things up for the held-up horses. The winner did travel well & ran out a ready winner.
There did not look to be any hard luck stories having viewed the race a few times, apart from "Frank" Spencer finding his normal trouble in-running on the 3rd (The Lark).
Don't think Moth saw the trip out & 10f will be her trip & the Stoute filly needs more time & a more galloping track, prob not see the very best of her till next year.

Do you think the draw cost her then Sisyphus?