HORSE RACING: She Feels Pretty in Top Form for G1 Dunkin’ Diana

HORSE RACING: She Feels Pretty in top form for G1 Dunkin’ Diana

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Lael Stables’ She Feels Pretty brings a four-race win streak, including three of her four top-level scores, into Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Dunkin’ Diana, a nine-furlong inner turf test for older fillies and mares, at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Cherie DeVaux, the 4-year-old Karakontie chestnut won the 1 3/16-mile Grade 1, $750,000 New York presented by Rivers Casino last out on June 6 here. Under returning Hall o…

She Feels Pretty Seeks Toughest Divisional Test Yet In Diana

The GI Dunkin' Diana Stakes has run through the Chad Brown barn for the last three years and while Brown has two solid entries here, the race runs through the rail-drawn Cherie DeVaux starter She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}). The 4-year-old Lael Stables-owned filly has won four straight dating back to last year, including three Grade I races over several of the rivals she'll line up against Saturday. For reference her last two 1 1/8-mile race…

She Feels Pretty taking on tough Brown duo in Diana

Saturday, She Feels Pretty goes for her fifth consecutive win and her fifth career Grade 1 success when she heads a six-horse field entered in the $500,000 Diana Stakes at Saratoga.

Division rankings: She Feels Pretty is in Saratoga spotlight

The first 10 starts of She Feels Pretty’s career have gone about as smoothly as possible, seven wins in three seasons, and a résumé that quietly has become elite.The daughter of Karakontie has pulled off something no U.S.-based turf filly has done since Rushing Fall, winning a Grade 1 at ages 2, 3 and 4. Rushing Fall took it one step further with a Grade 1 at 5, but She Feels Pretty is already in rare air.  She Feels Pretty, my top-ranked turf f…

She Feels Pretty Racks Up Another Grade 1 Triumph In Soggy New York