The Grade 1, $500,000-dollar Diana Stakes is Saturday at Saratoga.
Trainer Chad Brown will try to Win the event for the 10th time in his career.
The 1 1/8-mile turf race drew a talented field of six fillies, which includes a pair from Brown’s barn.
Brown has Won the last three editions of the Diana along with eight of the last nine, and all nine of his Victories have come since 2011.
The Diana field includes two horses with career earnings above $1 million. Four of them are Grade 1 Winners and the other two have Grade 3 Victories.
Together the field has 33 1st-place finishes with earnings of more than $5.04 million.
Here is a look at the field for the Diana Stakes:
1. SHE FEELS PRETTY [ML 1-1] Trainer: Cherie DeVaux. Jockey: John Velazquez. She comes to the Diana riding a four-race Win streak that includes three Grade 1s at three tracks from coast to coast, the New York Stakes at Aqueduct in June, the American Oaks at Santa Anita in December and the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Keeneland in October.
2. CHOISYA [ML 10-1] Trainer: Simon Crisford. Jockey: Luis Saez. Made 18 starts in England but did not Win at the group level until she went to Meydan and Won a pair of Group 2 races at the beginning of 2025. She came to America and became a Grade 1 Winner in the Jenny Wiley at Keeneland. Last out CHOISYA finished a tired 7th in the Just A Game (G1) on a yielding turf course.
3. LADY CLAYPOOLE [ML 15-1] Trainer: Robert Baltas. Jockey: Joel Rosario. Began her career with four starts in England and then came to America. She broke her Maiden in her ninth overall start, which was at Santa Anita in March 2024. LADY CLAYPOOLE needed eight starts to Win at the Allowance level and then Won two in a row in late winter. In March she Won the Santa Ana (G3) and then was 2nd in the Gamely (G1), all at Santa Anita.
4. EXCELLENT TRUTH [ML 7-2] Trainer: Chad Brown. Jockey: Flavien Prat. The first of the Chad Brown runners in the field. She began her career in France, where she Won three times including a Group 3 at Deauville. Last summer she was 2nd in the Prix Rothschild (G1), her final European race. EXCELLENT TRUTH finished 2nd in her only two starts in America in the Jenny Wiley and the Just A Game behind horses who are in this Diana field.
5. DYNAMIC PRICING [ML 9-2] Trainer: Chad Brown. Jockey: Dylan Davis. The second of two in this race for Brown. This filly is in the best form of her career with a May Victory in the Beaugay (G3) at Aqueduct, and she beat her stablemate EXCELLENT TRUTH in the Just A Game to become a Grade 1 Winner. She shows three turf works at Saratoga in preparation for Saturday.
6. BE YOUR BEST [ML 4-1] Trainer: Saffie Joseph Jr. Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr. Became a Grade 1 Winner in the Gamely at Santa Anita in a seven-horse field. She Won three Graded Stakes in a row from November to January in the Long Island (G3), the Seewanee River (G3) and the Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G2). This 5-year-old is in the best form of her career and prefers to run as part of the early pace. She will be facing the strongest field of her career.
The Diana Stakes is slated as race eleven on a card of twelve with a scheduled Post Time of 6:15.
Best of luck however you play it.
