LOUISVILLE, Ky. – There was nothing modest about how She Feels Pretty finished her 3-year-old season. The filly turned seriously imperious, winning the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup by more than six lengths and the Grade 1 American Oaks by 2 1/2. Neither are expectations for her 4-year-old season modest when She Feels Pretty starts Friday at Churchill Downs in the $400,000 Modesty Stakes. “The Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf is the plan,” said Cherie DeVaux, who trains She Feels Pretty for Roy and Gretchen Jackson’s Lael Stables. “She’s really special. It’s an honor to have a horse like her.” One doesn’t expect to hook a potential divisional leader in a Grade 3 race. “It’s a very tough spot for a Grade 3,” trainer Graham Motion said. It’s so tough that Motion thought hard about whether to send Gimme a Nother from his Maryland base before deciding to run. Others harbor similar thoughts. Trainer Brendan Walsh hinted Tuesday morning that Waves of Mischief could be scratched. Pin Up Betty is cross-entered in Saturday’s Distaff Turf Mile. As of Tuesday, connections were keeping options open, according to trainer Mike Maker. The Distaff Turf Mile might be a softer spot, but one mile probably falls short of Pin Up Betty’s best distance. :: DRF Kentucky Derby Package: Save on PPs, Clocker Reports, Betting Strategies, and more. Takemetothebeach looks like a 30-1 shot and Birdie Rose three times that price, which leaves a core of She Feels Pretty, Gimme a Nother, and two Chad Brown trainees, Segesta and Saffron Moon. In her most recent outing, last July at Saratoga, Segesta finished in front of She Feels Pretty, one of two defeats that led DeVaux to start racing She Feels Pretty in blinkers. “She had a couple little minor issues and she’s come back great,” Brown said of Segesta. Brown had Segesta pointed to the Modesty through a Keeneland allowance prep last month, but the intended race got rained onto dirt, and now Segesta comes straight off a long layoff. “I think she’s a Grade 1-level horse at some point,” Brown said. Six-year-old Saffron Moon has raced only 11 times and has hit peak form this year, winning the Endeavour and the Hillsborough at Tampa Bay. Brown believes she needs only to run back to the Hillsborough, where she defeated Gimme a Nother, to contend – and thinks she will. “Now she’s strong,” Brown said. “She always had talent. We just didn’t know where she was going to take us with it.” Saffron Moon ran in the Hillsborough five weeks after the Endeavour. Gimme a Nother started for the first time since the previous April, when she still called her native South Africa home. Undefeated in seven starts there for trainer Mike de Kock, two-time Group 1 winner Gimme a Nother took a couple extra beats finding her best stride in the Hillsborough, just enough to keep her from catching Saffron Moon. Motion said the subsequent weeks have gone well for Gimme a Nother, a straightforward horse to train, and the trainer thinks Gimme a Nother can turn the tables on Saffron Moon. “In the end, she came over here as a star, so we’re going to give it a shot,” Motion said. But can she take down She Feels Pretty? A top 2-year-old, She Feels Pretty lost the Belmont Oaks Invitational and the Lake Placid as an odds-on favorite, prompting DeVaux to try blinkers, a move that pushed She Feels Pretty over the hump. She Feels Pretty, who last started Dec. 26, has won races from 5 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/4 miles. Her best days might still lie in front of her. “She’s doing awesome. She only had 30 days off, and then she was back galloping and doing work before she came to me,” DeVaux said. “She didn’t lose that much. She seems to get bigger and stronger.” No reason to effect modesty: She Feels Pretty feels like a budding superstar. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.