She Feels Pretty in top form for G1 Dunkin’ Diana
At 0h03, on July 12, 2025 • By Saratoga Race Course
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 of Fame rider John Velazquez, She Feels Pretty stalked over the yielding Mellon turf, edging Beach Bomb nearing the three-sixteenths en route to a half-length victory in a final time of 2:00.76.
“She’s doing well,” said DeVaux. “She’s trained well here since the New York, and she’s on track for this. She’s been very impressive this year.”
Impressive might be an understatement, seeing that She Feels Pretty annexed her seasonal debut by 2 1/4 lengths in a Churchill Downs nine-furlong turf record 1:45.51 in the Grade 3 Modesty in May. That triumph followed a pair of top-level scores to cap her sophomore campaign when adding blinkers in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup in October at Keeneland ahead of the Grade 1 American Oaks in December at Santa Anita Park.
“She has definitely been impressive,” DeVaux said. “She is proven at this distance. So, hopefully we keep on going with her winning streak.”
