Fashion Plate to sell in November

ARCADIA, Calif. - Fashion Plate, the winner of two Grade 1 race for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita earlier this year, will not race before she is offered for sale in Kentucky in November, trainer Simon Callaghan said.

Fashion Plate is nominated for the $300,000 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 27, but will pass the race after finishing fifth in the Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 31, her third consecutive defeat. The Zenyatta Stakes field is expected to be led by the two-time champion Beholder.

“We wouldn’t run against Beholder unless we thought she was on top of her game,” Callaghan said. “I think the next step is the sale.”

Owned by Michael Tabor and Arnold Zetcher, Fashion Plate has won 3 of 8 starts and earned $471,250. She won the Las Virgenes Stakes and Santa Anita Oaks earlier this year. Callaghan said she sells as a racing or broodmare prospect.