Clairiere to make 4-year-old debut Wednesday

Maybe you saw Clairiere’s robust-looking Fair Grounds work pattern and wondered where she’d make the first start of her 4-year-old season. Now, you have an answer.

Clairiere is one of seven older fillies and mares entered in the seventh race Wednesday at Fair Grounds. Well done to the track’s racing office making this high-end allowance race go (Clairiere qualifies under the nonwinners-of-four condition) and bringing an elite talent to a weekday racing program.

Clairiere, a Stonestreet Farm homebred trained by Steve Asmussen, never has started in an allowance race. She won her debut, a Churchill Downs dirt-route maiden race, in October 2020 and since has started in five Grade 1s and four Grade 2s.

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Clairiere, who won the Rachel Alexandra Stakes last winter at Fair Grounds, took down her first Grade 1 in the Cotillion last September at Parx Racing. She subsequently finished fourth, beaten less than one length, in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.