A little more than a month after Lush Lips (GB) gave trainer Brendan Walsh his fourth Keeneland Grade 1 victory with a score in the 2025 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Dixiana, Walsh watched the filly enter the sales ring for the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Did Walsh think that would be the last time he saw Lush Lips?

“We didn’t want to lose her,” Walsh said.

And he didn’t as William Shively’s Dixiana Farms purchased Lush Lips for the sale-topping price of $3.7 million and kept her with Walsh.

“We were delighted,” Walsh said Wednesday morning. “She is probably worth more now than she was then.”

Lush Lips has enhanced her value with victories in the Mrs. Revere (G2) at Churchill Downs and the Honey Fox (G3) Presented by MyRacehorse at Gulfstream Park. She will go for a fourth consecutive victory in Saturday’s 38th running of the $650,000 Jenny Wiley (G1).

Only one filly has won the Queen Elizabeth II and then come back the following spring to win the Jenny Wiley and that was Rushing Fall in 2018-2019.

“The goal is the Breeders’ Cup (here Oct. 30-31) and we know she likes the course,” Walsh said. “There is a long way to go and we will see how things go in the interim. I expect her to take a step forward Saturday.”

Tyler Gaffalione, who has been aboard for Lush Lips’ past three victories, has the mount Saturday from post 7.

Lush Lips is not the only Walsh entrant in the Jenny Wiley riding a win streak into the race.

Farfellow Farms’ Expensive Queen (IRE) is 2-for-2 this year with her most recent win coming in the Albert M. Stall Memorial (L) at Fair Grounds.

An allowance winner here last spring in her U.S. debut, Expensive Queen finished fourth in the Gamely (G1) at Santa Anita before going to the sidelines for nearly eight months.

“She had some foot issues last year and we gave her some time,” Walsh said. “She came back fine and should be a factor Saturday.”

Luis Saez, who has been aboard for all three U.S. wins, has the mount from post 1.