Beaute Cachee gets career-best 100 Beyer in Jenny Wiley

The Grade 1 Just a Game over one mile at Saratoga on June 7 could be the next stop for Beaute Cachee, who ran the race of her life posting a 25-1 upset of last Saturday’s Grade 1 Jenny Wiley. Leading from just after the start under Frankie Dettori, Beaute Cachee won by 1 1/2 lengths and earned a 100 Beyer, easily a career best.

Trainer Chad Brown said no plans have been set for the mare, who came out of the race in good shape.

Brown’s other three Jenny Wiley runners ran below their best form, particularly Gina Romantica, seventh in her first start since a good fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

“She had two Grade 1s at Keeneland and we went in there really liking her chances. She just didn’t fire. She did get real upset in the paddock,” Brown said.

Brown has nothing set in stone for Gina Romantica or fourth-place Surge Capacity, whose chances were hurt by a poor start. Fluffy Socks, who was seventh, is the only one of Brown’s Jenny Wiley quartet possible for the Distaff Turf Mile next month at Churchill Downs.

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Meanwhile, Brown on Saturday plans to give leading Kentucky Derby hope Sierra Leone his first timed workout since the colt won the Blue Grass Stakes on April 6. The work is “weather-dependent,” Brown said, but there’s next to no chance of rain Saturday morning at Keeneland.

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