ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Saratoga-based She Feels Pretty returns to the scene of her first Grade 1 victory on Saturday to contest the $750,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes on the King’s Plate undercard at Woodbine. The 1 1/4-mile main turf event is a Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In qualifier for the Filly and Mare Turf, and She Feels Pretty should be odds-on in the compact but quality field of seven. Trainer Cherie DeVaux shipped She Feels Pretty here in 2023 for the Grade 1 Natalma, which she won for fun going a mile on the main turf. She’s since captured five stakes, including a trio of Grade 1s at three different tracks. The 4-year-old had a four-race win streak snapped most recently when a narrowly beaten second in the Grade 1 Diana at Saratoga. DeVaux opted for the Grade 1 Taylor over the Grade 2 Flower Bowl on Aug. 30 at Saratoga. There’s no rain in the Toronto weather forecast until late Saturday night, and the high probability of getting the filly’s preferred firm ground at Woodbine was appealing. “We had both races open on the table and we were just leaving it up to her to decide which race,” DeVaux said. “She’s training extremely well right now. I just didn’t want to wait too long for the Flower Bowl.” :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Ready for Shirl won the local prep for the Taylor, the Grade 2 Canadian. She upset the South African champion Gimme a Nother by closing from off a slow pace under Emma-Jayne Wilson in the 1 1/8-mile event. She was previously a fast-closing second over a speed-favoring course in the one-mile Nassau Stakes. “She’s actually put weight on since the Canadian,” trainer Roger Attfield pointed out. “It’s always been difficult to keep weight on her. She’s looking really well.” Attfield, 85, said the Taylor distance is a question mark for the Charles Fipke homebred, who is out of 2011 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Perfect Shirl. “I’ve always thought she could go farther when I was training her in her younger days,” Attfield said. “It’s been a progression from the Nassau to the Canadian. There’s a lot of difference between a mile and an eighth and a mile and a quarter. I think she can [run on] or obviously I wouldn’t try it.” Javier Castellano subs for the injured Wilson on Ready for Shirl, who breezed an easy half-mile in 49.40 seconds over the turf training course last Sunday. “It went very well,” Attfield said. “We weren’t doing anything very seriously. She galloped out great. All is looking good.” English shipper Diamond Rain is coming off a Group 3 score going 1 1/4 miles on a synthetic surface at Newcastle, which came on the heels of a listed stakes win on the grass at Haydock. Her connections – Godolphin, jockey William Buick, and trainer Charlie Appleby – have won a host of major grass stakes at Woodbine over the years. Caitlinhergrtness, last year’s King’s Plate winner and Canadian champion 3-year-old filly, won her season opener on Tapeta in the Grade 3 Belle Mahone before a flat eighth-place finish in the Grade 2 Nassau. Most recently, in the Grade 3 Trillium on Tapeta, she was caught in late stretch by Literate after making a wide bid and had to settle for second as the 3-5 favorite. “I was a little displeased by her trip,” trainer Kevin Attard said about the Trillium. “It just didn’t go our way. “I would have liked to have seen a better race from her in the Nassau. We’re going to throw our hat in the ring and see how it shapes up. Hopefully, the 10 furlongs on the [main turf] will suit her well. She’s in good order.” The Taylor is one of just four Lasix-free races during the Woodbine meet, and Caitlinhergrtness is going off the diuretic. “For her, it’s not a big deal,” Attard stressed. Flavien Prat will ride Caitlinhergrtness, replacing Rafael Hernandez, who retains the mount on Venencia. Venencia rallied outside from sixth to finish a close third with the addition of Lasix in the Canadian. Previously trained by Chad Brown, the French import is competing beyond 1 1/8 miles for the first time in her debut for trainer Mike Doyle. Trainer Marty Drexler entered Literate and Hurricane Clair, who figures to set the pace in her first attempt against open stakes company. “We’re going to let her run,” Drexler said. “If she can make the lead, or be close at least, I think what we’ve ultimately [determined] is she’s a horse that wants to be up there. If you take too much run out of her, I think she’ll stop on you.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.