LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Derby is loaded with tradition, part of which dictates that usually only colts run in America's greatest race.

The fillies have their own showcase on Derby eve, the Kentucky Oaks.

But Larry Jones, Kentucky born and bred, doesn't give a hoot about that particular ritual.

So expect to see filly Eight Belles in the starting gate for Saturday's 134th Derby, surrounded by 19 boys.

"The best way to get me to do something is usually to tell me I can't do it," Jones said Sunday.

The 51-year-old trainer plans to enter the gray filly in the Oaks as a backup, but said, "We intend to run Eight Belles in the Derby."

And why not?

The filly with the four-race winning streak turned in Sunday's second-fastest workout, running 5 furlongs in 58.20 on the dirt at Churchill Downs.