Be Your Best returns to New York in Wonder Again

Be Your Best, who won the P.G. Johnson Stakes at Saratoga last summer, returns to New York and is the only stakes winner among eight 3-year-old fillies entered in Thursday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Wonder Again Stakes.

After winning the P.G. Johnson, Be Your Best finished third in the Miss Grillo at Aqueduct and finished her 2-year-old campaign with a ninth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

She made her 3-year-old debut in the Grade 2 Appalachian at Keeneland, where she finished seventh. Trainer Horacio De Paz indicated she likely needed that race.

Be Your Best will take on a trio of runners from the barn of Chad Brown, who has won four of the first nine runnings of this race. Brown will send out Revalita, runner-up in the Grade 2 Edgewood at Churchill on May 5, and maiden winners Prerequisite and Venecia.

Spansive, 2 for 2 for Todd Pletcher, Allamericanbeauty, an allowance winner in April at Keeneland, Juniper’s Moon and Thirty Thou Kelvin complete the field.

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