Zagora Primed for Flower Bowl Invitational

Trainer Chad Brown has the European-bred duo of Dream Peace and Zagora primed for the Grade 1, $600,000 Flower Bowl Invitational, a 1 ¼-mile race on the inner turf course for fillies and mares.

Previously trained by Robert Collet, Etreham Farm’s Dream Peace won the 2011 Group 2 Prix de la Nonette at Deauville in France and has remained in the United States since finishing second in the Grade 1 Diana on July 28 at Saratoga Race Course. The Flower Bowl will be her first start for Brown.

Zagora, owned by Martin Schwartz, seeks her first Grade 1 win since taking the 2011 Diana. She is 4-0-1 in six starts this year, including a 1 ½-length victory on August 25 in Saratoga’s Grade 2 Ballston Spa presented by Jose Cuervo in course-record time.

I’m a Dreamer landed the biggest win of her career in her most recent start when she held on to take the Grade 1 Beverly D. by a head on August 18 at Arlington Park. Primarily campaigned in Great Britain, the Andrew Stone color-bearer will make another trip across the Atlantic to compete in the Flower Bowl.

Nahrain, heroine of the 2011 Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp, will make her first start in the United States since she was second in last year’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Churchill Downs. The Darley homebred seeks her first win of 2012.

Probables also include Hit It Rich and Bizzy Caroline, first and second in the Grade 3 Glens Falls on September 3 at Saratoga, and New York-bred star Hessonite. City to City, Kissable, and Mystical Star are possible.