QE II Challenge Cup 2016: Odds and Picks

Tomorrow’s $500,000, Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup is loaded with talented three-year-old turf fillies. Catch a Glimpse will renew her recent rivalry with Time and Motion in the 1 1/8 miles race at Keeneland. For more on the field, check out Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup should decide things from Zipse at the Track.

Post positions and odds for the QE II are below as seen on the HRN Stakes Tracker.

Catch a Glimpse suffered her second defeat ever from 10 starts, and her first defeat on the turf, last time out in the Grade 2 Lake Placid when Time and Motion sped by at the last minute. Before the Lake Placid, Catch a Glimpse was on an eight race win streak, including Grade 1 wins in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and the Belmont Oaks Invitational. The City Zip filly has proved to be another top turf horse for Mark Casse’s stable, and has blossomed even more at age three after earning 2015 Canadian Horse of the Year at age two.

After finally nabbing Catch a Glimpse, Time and Motion looks to steal the spotlight for the second time in a row. Time and Motion ran fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last year, and met Catch a Glimpse again in the Belmont Oaks, where she ran second by half a length off a three race win streak. The improving daughter of Tapit then got a neck in front of Catch a Glimpse at the wire in the Lake Placid, which was run at the same distance as the QE II.

On Leave has also been on the rise. She comes in off a win in the Grade 2 Sands Point, which was her fourth straight win. Three other fillies enter the QE II off wins in their last race. Harmonize got up in time to take the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks by a head, Try Your Luck won the Dueling Grounds Oaks by 7 ½ lengths after being disqualified from first to third in the Grade 3 Pucker Up, and Queen Caroline tries graded company for the first time after taking the Indiana Grand Stakes for a four race win streak.

By Christine Oser