Already this year, trainer Brad Cox has won four stakes at three racetracks with four different 3-year-old-fillies, and Sneaky Good could be favored to further boost those numbers in the $400,000 Beaumont on Friday at Keeneland. Sneaky Good won a modest renewal of the Sandpiper at Tampa Bay Downs in December and in the seven-furlong Beaumont, can join On Time Girl, Paradise, Life of Joy, and Prom Queen as Cox-trained 3-year-old filly stakes winners this season. Life of Joy and Prom Queen start next in the Kentucky Oaks, and while Sneaky Good doesn’t rate in their class, many will judge her the most likely winner of the Grade 2 Beaumont, which lured seven. Sneaky Good, Flavien Prat riding for the first time, has merit but feels like an underlay. :: Keeneland Spring Meet! Get DRF Past Performances, picks, news, and more. In the seven-furlong Forward Gal on Jan. 31 – won by On Time Girl – she loomed at the head of the homestretch but quickly went flat, fading to a well-beaten third. Stretched to two turns March 1 in the Honeybee at Oaklawn, Sneaky Good pulled a favorable trip and ran creditably, checking in third behind two Oaks-quality fillies. Cox left Sneaky Good at Oaklawn, where she worked three times in March. Sticker Shock, beaten 21 lengths in the Fantasy, got the best of Sneaky Good in a March 20 team drill, and while Sneaky Good, going solo, hit the wire and galloped out with decent energy in her March 27 half-mile, she came under strong urging to do so. It’s hard to imagine anyone among this septet worked better for the Beaumont than Just Bluffing. Just Bluffing aced her debut Jan. 17 at Fair Grounds, stalking the pace and comfortably running down pacesetting Goodall for a 3 1/4-length score, and Goodall on March 14, romped in the Purple Martin at Oaklawn, earning a 94 Beyer Speed Figure. Meanwhile, Just Bluffing faced older rivals in her second start, a first-level Fair Grounds allowance, where she hooked into a speed duel and lost by nearly five lengths to 4-year-old Wondrous, who ran the race of her life. Just Bluffing’s only work since that Feb. 28 race, on March 28 at Churchill, suggests she could be ridden from off the pace again Friday. Just Bluffing, clocked in 48.20 for a half-mile, went past the finish line still well held and barely out of a gallop, but midway around the clubhouse turn her rider suddenly asked for run, and Just Bluffing gave it – explosively. A Fine Chardonnay, who could challenge for favoritism, looked less flashy but turned in her own solid half-mile Churchill work March 29. She went solo in a quick 47.40 but did so under the lightest of urging and with an easy stride. “I didn’t want her to do a lot or go too fast, but it looked like she didn’t do anything,” trainer Ian Wilkes said. A Fine Chardonnay began her career with two wins, and an eye-catching last-to-first allowance score at Keeneland’s fall meet led Wilkes to aim all winter toward the Beaumont. He brought the filly back from her winter break March 14 in the Any Limit at Gulfstream, where A Fine Chardonnay clocked the fastest final furlong, 12.33, while third behind two pace players in a fast race. “I didn’t have the screws tight for that,” Wilkes said. A Fine Chardonnay, last November took a step back, a distant third in the Fern Creek at Churchill, at 6 1/2 furlongs, her longest race. But Wilkes believes it was not the Fern Creek distance that produced regression and has no concern regarding the Beaumont’s seven furlongs. “She’s not a big, robust filly – light-framed, a plain Jane. She probably had just tailed off a bit in her form, her training last year,” Wilkes said. Unraced at 3, Baracca started her career with a six-furlong debut score followed by a seven-furlong allowance win. Seventh in the 1 1/16-mile Golden Rod, she cuts back in trip Friday and races for the first time in blinkers. “She didn’t quite stay in the Golden Rod,” trainer Brendan Walsh said. “We just put the blinkers on her last couple works to sharpen her up. I guess we’ll see Friday if it worked.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.