Qatar Racing's Peace and War (War Front) tuned up for a start in Saturday's GI Ashland S. with a two-furlong breeze at Keeneland Thursday. The GI Darley Alcibiades S. heroine was clocked in :23.40 for the quarter-mile with Tegan Clark aboard.
“It is too close to the race to do more than that,” trainer Olly Stevens said. “I just wanted to get a good eighth of a mile. I am still trying to figure out if she is as good as she was last year.”
Peace and War was using the Oct. 3 Alcibiades as a springboard to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, but her juvenile campaign was cut short by an injury and the Ashland will be her first start back.
“She hasn't grown any and that still gives me a few nervous moments when I think about it,” Stevens said. “But then I watch her train and know that I am in good shape.”
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