Lael Stables’ five-time Grade 1 winner She Feels Pretty, considered the top American runner to challenge the Europeans on Nov. 1 at Del Mar in the $2 million Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), continued her steady work pattern for the race by working a half-mile in :48 Friday morning.

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Working in company with Grade 3-winning stablemate Taking Candy, She Feels Pretty logged her fifth Friday half-mile breeze since winning the E.P. Taylor (G1) at Woodbine on Aug. 16.

“She has been working well, and I just need to keep her sound and happy,” trainer Cherie DeVaux said after the work.

She Feels Pretty is scheduled to work again here next Friday and then fly to Del Mar as part of a three-horse World Championships contingent for DeVaux, who collected her first Breeders’ Cup victory last year at Del Mar with More Than Looks in the FanDuel Mile (G1) Presented by PDJF.

Her other runners are expected to be Rebel Red (GB) for the Turf (G1) and Vahva for the PNC Bank Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1). Rebel Red worked a half-mile this morning on the main track in :48.80 in company with stakes winner Northern Invader. 

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Vahva is scheduled to work Saturday at 7:30 a.m.

Owned by his breeder, John Gunther, and Eurowest Bloodstock Services, Rebel Red had his second work since finishing fifth in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1) on Sept. 27.

“I was pleased with him this morning,” DeVaux said of Rebel Red, whose best finish in graded stakes this year was a second in the Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer (G1) at Saratoga on Aug. 9. “He has run some really good races and that puts him right there (with possible Breeders’ Cup entrants). The Joe Hirsch was a weird race with only five horses.”