Modesty Stakes

Pretty is as pretty does. And what Lael Stables' She Is Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}) does, she does with routine brilliance. Pretty good. Pretty convincing. Pretty devastating. And pretty much the one they'll be trying to beat in the top-level middle-distance contests to come over the summer and fall in the distaff turf division following a comprehensive victory in Friday's GIII Modesty Stakes at Churchill Downs on her seasonal debut. Sent off at skinny, yet reasonable odds of 3-5--a penny shy of 4-5--the $240,000 Keeneland September graduate raced outside in the second...