Undefeated.

That word captures one’s attention and applies to Newstead Stables’ Laurelin (IRE), the morning line favorite in a field of nine 3-year-old fillies for Saturday’s 42nd running of the $800,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana.

“I don’t think I have had a horse start a career 5-for-5,” trainer Graham Motion said. “I had Confessional, but she started out with Bill Mott.”

A graded stakes winner, Confessional won her final five races — with two Keeneland stakes wins for Motion — and nine of her final 10 starts in 2000 and 2001.

Laurelin comes into Saturday’s race off a victory in the Saratoga Oaks Invitational (G2) on Aug. 9. She will be partnered again by Kendrick Carmouche.

“It definitely adds pressure being undefeated other than what you put on yourself,” Motion said. “We have always really liked her, and it is not a surprise she has done well.”

Laurelin won both of her races in 2024 before getting five months away from competition before returning in April to win the Memories of Silver (L) at Aqueduct.

“We gave her the winter off and didn’t go to Florida with her,” Motion said. “The owners have been very patient.”

Motion, who won this race with Film Maker in 2003, indicated Saturday’s race most likely would be the final start of the year for Laurelin with plans to return to the races next year at 4.