Four Graces

Four Graces won her career debut by 1 ½ lengths March 1, 2020, at Gulfstream Park. She faded to fourth in her second start when stretching out to a mile at Gulfstream in April. Trainer Ian Wilkes put her back in a seven-eighths of a mile sprint for her third race and she dominated May 16 with a 1 ¾-length allowance victory under Julien Leparoux.

The dark bay or brown filly by Majesticperfection made her stakes debut in the Grade 3 Dogwood Stakes June 6 at Churchill Downs, and she led from start to finish in a 2 1/2-length win. A little more than a month later, she returned for the Grade 3 Beaumont Stakes Presented by Keeneland Select during Keeneland's short July meet, and shook off early pace pressure from Grade 1 winner Wicked Whisper to post another impressive 4 3/4-length win, setting a stakes record and a track record at Keeneland of 1:24.90 for the approximately seven furlongs and 104-foot distance.

The Beaumont was Four Graces’ last win of 2020 as she finished second in the Grade 2 Eight Belles Stakes Presented by Twinspires.com and then seventh in the Grade 2 Lexus Raven Run Stakes. She only raced once in 2021, finishing fourth, but returned to more activity at age 5 in 2022, making five starts through the first half of the year, four of those coming in graded stakes. The mare finished second in two of those graded events, the Grade 2 Inside Information Stakes and the Grade 1 Derby City Distaff Stakes Presented by Kendall-Jackson Winery.

Grade 3-placed winner Ivory Empress, by Seeking the Gold, is the dam of Four Graces as well as multiple graded stakes winner McCraken, the runner-up in the 2017 Haskell Invitational Stakes. Ivory Empress is a half-sister (same dam [mother], different sire [father]) to Grade 1 winner Mea Domina.