Rainha Da Bateria Exits Jessamine in Good Order

Three Chimneys Farm’s Rainha Da Bateria, the last-to-first winner of Wednesday’s JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G3), came out of the race in good order.

“She will stay there at Keeneland and then ship to California,” trainer Graham Motion said by phone of the filly who earned a berth in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) on Oct. 31.

“I was surprised at the low number (speed figure) she got for the race … I think it was 66 … but the way she did it was very impressive,” Motion said. “It makes sense to go on (to the Breeders’ Cup).”

On Saturday, Motion will try for his second victory in the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Lane’s End (G1) for 3-year-old fillies.

“Daring Dancer is on the way there now,” said Motion, who took the 2003 race with Film Maker.

Owned and bred by Sagamore Farm, Daring Dancer won the Appalachian (G3) on firm ground here in the spring and has won four of six starts with her lone setbacks coming in stakes at Belmont.

“She is doing well,” Motion said. “I just don’t think she handled Belmont at all.”

Source: Keeneland