Queen Elizabeth winner Cambier Parc done for the year, will race at age 4

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Cambier Parc is finished racing for the year after ending her 3-year-old season with a second straight Grade 1 victory for her high-profile connections.

Owned by the OXO Equine of Larry Best and trained by Chad Brown, Cambier Parc dominated the final Grade 1 race of the Keeneland fall meet, leading throughout Saturday in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. The daughter of Medaglia d’Oro earned a career-high 91 Beyer Speed Figure in prevailing by a length over Castle Lady. In her previous start, Cambier Parc rallied from well off the pace to win the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks.

Brown said in the immediate aftermath of the QE II that he was inclined to stop on Cambier Parc and send her to Florida over the winter ahead of a 4-year-old campaign that will begin at Gulfstream Park or next April at Keeneland in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley. Brown’s assistant Whit Beckman confirmed that plan Sunday.

“They’ll all get a break,” said Beckman, also referring to the stable’s two other QE II runners, Cafe Americano (fourth) and Regal Glory (sixth).

Brown, the Eclipse Award-winning trainer the last three years, tops the Keeneland standings with six wins as the 17-day meet reaches its midpoint Wednesday. He has Focus Group as one of the top contenders here Thursday in the Grade 3 Sycamore and another trio of 3-year-old fillies Friday in the Grade 3 Valley View – Blowout, Catch a Bid, and Turf War – as well as Royal Charlotte in the Grade 2 Raven Run on Saturday.

The stakes schedule ends with the Grade 3 Dowager on Sunday and the Grade 2 Fayette on closing day, Oct. 26.

Lady Prancealot, the lone scratch from the QE II, is among an oversubscribed field of 15 entered in the Valley View.