Phillips Racing Partnership's homebred Time and Motion (Tapit) snapped 2015 Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse (City Zip)'s eight-race winning streak in the GII Lake Placid S. at Saratoga Aug. 21, and the two will get a rematch in one of the year's biggest prizes for sophomore filly turfers, the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Saturday at Keeneland. Gary Barber, Michael Ambler and Windways Farm's Catch a Glimpse drew the rail for the $500,000 test going 1 1/8 miles over the Keeneland lawn, while Time and Motion is set to break from post seven.
The pair will be joined in the starting gate by seven other rivals, including three runners exiting the Aug. 20 GI Del Mar Oaks–winner Harmonize (Scat Daddy), third-place finisher Stays in Vegas (City Zip) and fourth-place Mokat (Uncle Mo). The 'QEII' also features a pair of sharp recent stakes winners in Dueling Grounds Oaks victress Try Your Luck (Lookin At Lucky) and GII Sands Point S. heroine On Leave (War Front). Queen Caroline (Blame) also brings a four-race win streak into the QEII, including a score in the Sept. 7 Indiana Grand S. over a grassy mile. The field is completed by an intriguing Euro shipper in Lael Stables' Hawksmoor (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}), a Hugo Palmer-trained winner of the G2 German 1000 Guineas and recent fifth-place finisher in the G1 Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S. at Leopardstown Sept. 10.
If Time and Motion is able to find the winner's circle, it will mark the third overall QEII win for trainer Jimmy Toner, whose previous victories came with Tribulation (Danzig) in 1993 and stakes record-holder Memories of Silver (Silver Hawk) in 1996.
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