Race 10 at Colonial Downs | Saturday, August 1 | Post Time 5:03 PM Eastern

Beverly D. Stakes – Grade 2| Purse $500,000 | One and Three-Sixteenths on Turf | Fillies and Mares, Three-Year-Olds and Upward

Top Win Contender(s): Gimme a Nother (9), Pin Up Betty (7)

For exacta in second: Crevalle d’Oro (5), Stellify (8), Way to Be Marie (12)

Gimme a Nother won all seven of her races in South Africa, including two Group 1 stakes through April 2024. She was sent to the U.S., where she took nearly a year to acclimate. She started her U.S. racing career finishing second by less than a length in the Grade 2 Hillsborough Stakes in March 2025 and then second again in the Grade 3 Modesty Stakes. She missed by a head in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes last July, and won her last race of 2025, the Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes in September. She started 2026 by winning the Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes on June 13, ridden out, which tells me she had a full tank of gas. She is moving back to Group 2 stakes, where she could win her 10th career race.

Pin Up Betty (7) won the Anchorage Stakes on June 27, where she bid three paths wide and drew off to win easily. In 2025, she won the same race and the Grade 3 Mint Julep Stakes in June, and she just missed by a neck in the Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile Stakes in May. She lost seven races between the Anchorage last year and the same race this year, but she is back in top form and has a shot to win again.

Crevalle d’Oro (5), Stellify (8), and Way to Be Marie (12) have all won stakes races, but none have won a race higher than Grade 3. Crevalle d’Oro won her last stakes race in December, the Suwannee River Stakes. She then missed by a half-length in the Grade 2 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational. In her most recent race, she finished fourth in the Grade 3 Honey Fox Stakes. She has to improve to be a contender, and she has run five times as many races as she has won.

Stellify would be a top contender if she weren’t coming off a nine-month layoff. She won four straight races from May through September last year, including the Grade 3 Ladies Marathon Stakes. She led from the start in her last three wins, but two other horses in this race also run that way (Storm Miami and Achieve). As a fresh horse, she will be fast early but probably needs a race before she is in her best form.

Way to Be Marie gets the outside post, but she is a stalker so that isn’t an issue. She won the non-graded Tom Benson Memorial Stakes in 2025 and again in March of this year. Those were the only races she won in 10 races across 2025 and 2026. She also finished second and third six times, so she could be in the exacta or third in the trifecta.

Win bets: Gimme a Nother (9), Pin Up Betty (7) at odds of 5 to 2 or higher.

Exactas: Gimme a Nother (9), Pin Up Betty (7) over Gimme a Nother (9), Pin Up Betty (7), Crevalle d’Oro (5), Stellify (8), Way to Be Marie (12)