SINCE she was placed in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in 2016 as a two-year-old, Lys Gracieux has always performed competitively and consistently at the highest
level. She had to be content with the runner-up spot on five separate occasions before making her Group 1 breakthrough in the Queen Elizabeth II in November of 2018.

Beaten on her first two starts in 2019, normal service then seemed to have resumed for the daughter of Heart’s Cry. But very few could have foreseen, nor predicted, her rise to the pinnacle of racing in Japan and further afield in the latter half of the year.