Homeowners Roy and Gretchen Jackson of Lael Stables, who captured the 2006 Kentucky Derby (G1) with the ill-fated Barbaro, have additionally loved success in one other top-tier race for 3-year-olds: the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T). They first received it with the Examine the Label when it was referred to as the Backyard Metropolis Stakes in 2010 and skilled a second victory a decade later with Magic Perspective below the race’s present title.
On July 6, the Jacksons intention for a 3rd win within the now-$500,000 race when coach Cherie DeVaux begins their gifted She Feels Fairly in opposition to eight different 3-year-old fillies within the 1 3/16-mile outer turf check in the course of the Belmont on the Large A meet. She faces a top-class discipline that features three abroad raiders: Enjoyable With Flags , Secret Satire , and Cinderella’s Dream .
A winner of her first two begins final 12 months, together with the Natalma Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine, She Feels Fairly began as the favourite within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) final 12 months at Santa Anita Park and ran a large, without-cover third, crushed a half-length.
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Freshened in the course of the winter and early spring, she romped by 5 3/4 lengths within the Might 17 Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in her lone begin at age 3. That stakes race, like her begins within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and Natalama, got here at a mile, leaving her a query mark at Saturday’s longer distance.
“We’re going to discover out if she will be able to deal with it,” DeVaux mentioned. “She has not appeared distance-compromised proper now, as of but, so it will likely be fascinating to see how she handles it.”
She Feels Fairly, favored at 2-1 odds on the morning line below common rider John Velazquez, is certainly one of two starters for DeVaux, who additionally runs Blue Heaven Farm’s Sy B , a 15-1 outsider below Tyler Gaffalione.
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Godolphin’s Cinderella’s Dream is the 9-2 second alternative after checking in seventh within the One Thousand Guineas (G1) at Newmarket Might 5 for coach Charlie Appleby. Appleby’s go-to rider, William Buick, is on the town Saturday to trip the Shamardal filly and Legend of Time within the $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T) earlier on the cardboard.
“Cinderella’s Dream did effectively in Dubai, so she’s tailored to that flat, round-track type of racing,” Appleby mentioned. “I believed she ran a creditable race within the Guineas and I really feel the step as much as this journey ought to swimsuit. Her coaching at Saratoga, the place she’s been for a while, has gone effectively. She’s achieved all the pieces that must be achieved down there. I really feel she’ll be a giant participant on Saturday. She’s bought loads of expertise below her belt and fast floor will swimsuit her, as effectively. These tight tracks will swimsuit her, as she’s a neat filly.”
She is certainly one of two Saturday starters exiting group 1 races in Britain, the opposite being Man Brook’s Secret Satire , who ran tenth within the Might 31 Oaks (G1) at Epsom Downs after profitable the Musidora Stakes (G3) at York a begin earlier for coach Andrew Balding.
Enjoyable With Flags involves america through France, the place she was grade 3-placed. The Jerome Reynier trainee races for house owners Madaket Stables, Michael Kisber, Gainesway Secure, and Erika Gilliar.
In addition to She Feels Fairly, the opposite high American-trained runners are Edgewood Stakes (G2T) winner Dynamic Pricing , 2023 Jessamine Stakes (G2T) winner Buchu , and Surprise Once more Stakes (G2T) winner Segesta .
Entries: Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks Invitational S. (G1T)
Belmont on the Large A, Saturday, July 06, 2024, Race 9
- Grade I
- 1 3/16m
- Outer turf
- $500,000
- 3 yo Fillies
- 4:42 PM (native)
