Next for Didia could be Diana Stakes or Beverly D.

Didia did not linger in Saratoga Springs following her satisfying victory Friday in the Grade 1, $750,000 New York Stakes, and whether she returns to Saratoga this summer has yet to be determined.

Both Didia and her trainer, Ignacio Correas, shipped back to Lexington, Kentucky, on Saturday. That’s where Correas, for the most part, keeps his stable, and where Didia did all her work for the New York. The mare, bred in Argentina and a star filly there during the early portion of her career, earned a career-best 100 Beyer Speed Figure winning the New York by 1 1/2 lengths. Didia won the Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf in January and was third in the Jenny Wiley in April at Keeneland, but both those 1 1/16-mile races were part of Correas’ long-range plan to get Didia to the New York, over a 1 3/16-mile distance that better suits her, in top order.

Correas has his eye on the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf in November at Del Mar, but what Didia does in the nearer term remains uncertain. The two races under consideration, Correas said, are the Diana Stakes on July 13 at Saratoga and the Beverly D. on Aug. 10 at Colonial Downs. The Beverly D. might be the more likely spot not just because it gives Didia more time to come back to a peak, but also because Correas said he has a minor obsession with winning the Beverly D.

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Didia in fact went to Colonial for the 2023 Beverly D., but Correas had to scratch the mare. Before leaving Keeneland, Didia had suffered a laceration on her head; Correas hoped she’d be able to overcome it, but after Didia trained at Colonial and appeared uncomfortable, Correas took her out of the race. In 2017, when the Beverly D. was run at Arlington, the defunct track that created the race, the Correas-trained Dona Bruja finished second by a half-length after looming a winner in midstretch.

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