October, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Delacour Hoping Magic Attitude Can ‘Bounce Back’ In Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup

Lael Stables' Magic Attitude (GB), the likely favorite for Saturday's 37th running of the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana, arrived at Keeneland Tuesday morning following an overnight van ride from the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland.

A Group 3 winner as well as a Group 1 runner-up this year in France, Magic Attitude dazzled in her U.S. debut, winning the Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1) on Sept. 19 by 2¼ lengths with a last-to-first move in the stretch.

“I was thinking they are going slow and they are all going to kick,” trainer Arnaud Delacour said of the 1¼-mile race. “It was a good effort from her and I think she appreciated the firm ground.”

The 1 1/8-mile Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup comes three weeks after the victory at Belmont, repeating a time frame Magic Attitude had this summer between her runner-up finish at Chantilly in France in the Saxon Warrior Coolmore Prix Saint Alary (G1) and fifth-place finish in the Prix de Diane (G1).

“It probably will be her last race of the year, and the question is the three weeks (between races),” Delacour said. “Will she bounce back well? So far, she has been showing all the right things, and she had a nice maintenance move the other day (a half-mile in :51 on the dirt at Fair Hill).”

Also arriving Tuesday morning was Lael Stables' Chalon, who is entered in Friday's 24th running of the $150,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County (G3) going 5½ furlongs on the Keeneland turf course.

The 6-year-old mare, who has compiled a 22-9-8-1 record for earnings of $991,895, will be making her turf debut in the Buffalo Trace Franklin County.

At Keeneland, Chalon has three runner-up finishes in four Grade 2 races on Keeneland's main track in her career. She was scratched from Saturday's Skipat (L) at Pimlico.

“We have always wanted to try her on the grass and there is no better place to try than here at Keeneland,” Delacour said.

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Spinster Winner Valiance to Fasig-Tipton November

Sunday’s GI Juddmonte Spinster S. winner Valiance (Tapit–Last Full Measure, by Empire Maker) will be offered at the Nov. 8 Fasig-Tipton November Sale after an anticipated start in the GI Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff Nov. 7. She will go through the ring as a racing or broodmare prospect consigned by Meg Levy’s Bluewater Sales.

A Todd Pletcher trainee for the partnership of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Martin S. Schwartz, and CHC Inc., Valiance is riding a three-race win streak into the Breeders’ Cup. She came into the Spinster off a score in Monmouth’s Eatontown S. Aug. 29, which had followed an allowance/optional claimer win on the turf at Colonial Downs July 28. She also won the Open Mind S. on the Monmouth turf last year as a 3-year-old. Valiance goes into the Breeders’ Cup with an 8-6-0-0 record and earnings of $469,575.

“It is always exciting to offer fillies in top current form,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “A daughter of Tapit with a fantastic pedigree will be highly desirable to the sport’s leading buyers and owners.”

Valiance is out of the GI Madison S. winner Last Full Measure, who hammered for $1.5 million while in foal to War Front at the 2014 Keeneland November sale. Valiance’s granddam, Lazy Slusan (Slewvescent), was a dual Grade I winner in 2001.

The Spinster winner previously sold for $650,000 as a yearling at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale to Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Marty Schwartz.

“She’s been a joy to be associated with, taking us to the top of the mountain,” said Eclipse Thoroughbred’s Aron Wellman. “Valiance is regally bred, a gorgeous physical, and she’s a top-shelf performer on dirt and turf. We are hoping for another positive result in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and to then showcase her at the historic Newtown Paddocks.”

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Recent Grade 1 Winner Valiance To Sell At Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Valiance, winner of the Grade 1 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes this past weekend, will be offered at this year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the company's Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky.

Bluewater Sales will consign the four-year-old old filly on behalf of owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Martin S. Schwartz, and CHC Inc.

Valiance, trained by Todd Pletcher, has won six of her eight career starts to date and earned $469,575. She has won her last three starts since this summer, including the Eatontown Stakes on Aug. 29, followed by the Juddmonte Spinster Stakes on Oct. 4. In the Spinster, she defeated a top-class field that included Grade 1 winner Ollie's Candy, and recent Kentucky Oaks victress Shedaresthedevil.

Valiance's next anticipated start is the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff on Nov. 7 in Lexington.

“Eclipse has been fortunate to sell several seven-figure mares, including a $3 million sales-topper, at Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars and it's only fitting for Valiance to be one of the next in line,” said Aron Wellman, President and Founder of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners. “Our partnership, including Marty Schwartz and her breeder, China Horse Club, acquired Valiance at the Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale and she's been a joy to be associated with, taking us to the top of the mountain. Valiance is regally-bred, a gorgeous physical, and she's a top shelf performer on dirt and turf. We are hoping for another positive result in the Breeders' Cup Distaff and to then showcase her at the historic Newtown Paddocks.”

A daughter of leading sire Tapit, Valiance was purchased for $650,000 at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale. Her dam Last Full Measure, by Empire Maker, captured the Grade 1 Madison Stakes on her way to career earnings of $293,245. Valiance's second dam, Lazy Slusan, was a multiple Grade 1 winning distaffer and millionaire.

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