Luminous Beauty set to shine in Listed $200K Schuylerville
At 0h04, on July 2, 2026 • By Keith McCalmont, Saratoga Race Course
Luminous Beauty will look to make her stakes debut a winning one in Friday’s Listed $200,000 Schuylerville to kick off the July 4th Racing Festival on Opening Day of the 46-day summer meet, at Saratoga Race Course.
The Schuylerville, a six-furlong sprint for juvenile fillies, is slated as Race 9 on Friday’s 11-race card which also features a pair of $150,000 restricted turf tilts in the one-mile Wild Applause in Race 8 and the 1 1/16-mile Saranac in Race 10. First post is 1:10 p.m. Eastern.
Luminous Beauty [post 8, Flavien Prat], trained by Jena Antonucci for horseOlogy Racing, Fred Rosen, Steve Dervenis and Cliff Racing, earned a field-best 77 Beyer Speed Figure for her second-out graduation sprinting 5 1/2-furlongs on June 4 during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.
The Flameaway dark bay exited post 2-of-8 under Flavien Prat and showed the way through splits of 22.20 seconds and 44.88 over the fast main track, opening up a 3 1/2-length advantage at the stretch call en route to a 6 1/4-length score in a final time of 1:03.34.
Antonucci said Luminous Beauty is a versatile type that doesn’t necessarily need the lead.
“She’s very good minded. It just worked out that way with the kind of break she had. Flavien was able to get her to relax and just cruise around there,” Antonucci said. “If she ended up having something to sit off of or go to the front, I don’t think it would matter for her. That racetrack was pretty fast, and it really carried them well that day. She ran well.”
The maiden score followed a solid debut on May 15 at Churchill Downs where Luminous Beauty brushed with a rival leaving post 5-of-8 and pressed the early speed of the Wesley Ward-trained mutuel favorite Lady Chanel. Luminous Beauty took over at the three-sixteenths and looked to put the field away but was caught inside the final sixteenth by the rallying Pierette, who is entered in Sunday’s Debutante at Churchill.
“We were very proud of her effort there,” Antonucci said. “She did pretty much all the heavy lifting that day, putting a very prepared Wesley Ward filly away and then just getting beat there late was a tough beat for her. I think she learned a lot from it, and it obviously tightened her up for her next start.”
Luminous Beauty has trained into her stakes debut at Saratoga where she worked a bullet five-eighths in 59.46 over the main track on June 24.
