Lael Stables’ grade 1 winner She Feels Fairly has been made the 5-2 morning-line favourite in a deep area of 10 3-year-old fillies assembled for the $750,000 Queen Elizabeth II Problem Cup Stakes (G1T) Oct. 12 at Keeneland.
Winner of the Natalma Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine as a 2-year-old and favored when third, crushed only a half-length, in final 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T), expertise has by no means been the query for the Karakontie filly who has received half her six profession begins and by no means completed worse than third.
However coach Cherie DeVaux thinks there nonetheless could possibly be extra there, and after a pair of losses at lower than even-money, DeVaux will add blinkers to She Feels Fairly in Saturday’s invitational 1 1/8-mile turf check.
“Her final two races, she appears to be ready on the opposite horses,” DeVaux stated. “She’s a horse that works rather well within the mornings, and it is exhausting to give you a solution to resolve that. I am hoping the blinkers assist her fear about her race and never the horses subsequent to her. She has at all times proven lots of expertise and an immense quantity of skill.
“She has executed lots of altering bodily. She has stuffed out, and he or she’s a good looking massive filly now, and that is not what she was like as a 2-year-old. We’re attempting to get her to take that subsequent leap the place she places her head down and runs by the wire.”
Her competitors consists of the filly who beat her by a neck final time within the Lake Placid Stakes (G2) at Saratoga Race Course—Flanagan Racing’s Grayosh . That Yoshida filly is considered one of two entrants for coach Chad Brown, who has received this race a report 5 occasions together with in 2022 with Gina Romantica and the earlier 12 months with Shantisara .
Brown’s second entrant is Klaravich Stables’ Oversubscribed . A stakes winner and by no means worse than second in 4 lifetime begins, the British-bred daughter of Too Darn Sizzling most not too long ago completed second within the Lake George Stakes (G3) at Saratoga. Oversubscribed was hard-held early within the Lake George and rallied by site visitors within the lane. She will get a rider change to Irad Ortiz Jr. Saturday. The filly that bought the leap on Oversubscribed and received the Lake George—Resolute Racing’s Pounce —is again once more, too.
The second and third decisions on the morning line come from Europe, they usually have robust firm strains. Highclere Thoroughbred Racing’s Soprano received the Prix de Lieurey (G3) going a mile at Deauville Aug. 15, and most not too long ago completed third, crushed 1 1/2 lengths within the mile Matron Stakes (G1) at Leopardstown. The Matron runner-up was Irish One Thousand Guineas (G1) winner Fallen Angel whereas the winner was four-time group 1 winner Porta Fortuna , who completed second, a head in entrance of She Feels Fairly, in final 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup.
Additionally coming from Europe is The Aga Khan’s Candala . Winner of the mile Prix de la Grotte (G3) at Longchamp this spring, the Frankel filly most not too long ago completed third, crushed 2 1/2 lengths, within the Prix Alec Head (G2) at Deauville. The winner, Pleasant Soul , returned to beat older within the prestigious Prix de l’Opera (G1) Oct. 6 at Longchamp.
The QEII area additionally consists of WinStar Farm and Sienna Farm’s Caitlinhergrtness , an Omaha Seashore filly who beat the boys within the King’s Plate Stakes, restricted to Canada-breds, final out at Woodbine.
Entries: Queen Elizabeth II Problem Cup S. Offered by Dixiana (G1T)
Keeneland, Saturday, October 12, 2024, Race 8
- Grade IT
- 1 1/8m
- Turf
- $750,000
- 3 yo Fillies
- 4:44 PM (native)
