New Money Honey settling in at Keeneland for Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup

LEXINGTON, Ky. – New Money Honey is among the Chad Brown contingent that has settled in at Keeneland, as the star turf filly looms the biggest name for the final Grade 1 race of the fall meet, the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup.

New Money Honey, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last fall and the Belmont Oaks in July, is one of 11 3-year-old fillies whose connections have accepted invitations to the 34th QE II, to be run next Saturday, Oct. 14.

Owned by eFive Racing Thoroughbreds, New Money Honey will be returning to turf after Brown gave her a first opportunity to show what she could do on the dirt in the Aug. 19 Alabama, a Grade 1 race in which the Medaglia d’Oro filly finished fifth. Since the Alabama, New Money Honey had four breezes at Belmont prior to being shipped here.

Brown also will be represented in the 1 1/8-mile QE II by Uni, a British-bred filly who rallied to win the Grade 2 Sands Point last month over the Belmont Park turf as the favorite.

Keeneland officials originally invited 13 for the race, but the connections of two European fillies declined.

In alphabetical order, here is the updated list of invitees for the QE II, for which entries will be drawn Wednesday: Beau Recall, Con Te Partiro, Daddys Lil Darling, Dream Dancing, La Coronel, Madam Dancealot, New Money Honey, Proctor’s Ledge, Unforgetable Filly, Uni, and Wuheida.

The QE II is the biggest of three stakes to be run here next week, with the others being the Grade 3 Jessamine on Wednesday and the Grade 3 Franklin County on Friday.