Bellarchi struck late under Joanna Mason to win the Listed Queen Charlotte Fillies’ Stakes at Chester on Saturday, giving trainer Grant Tuer a sharp black-type success on the rescheduled seven-furlong contest.
The five-year-old mare, sent off at 11/2, was recorded as racing wide before making rapid headway inside the final furlong and leading towards the finish. She beat Dash Of Azure by half a length, with Circe a neck further back in third after the seven-runner race was run on good ground, good to firm in places.
The race had extra administrative context after being moved from its original Chelmsford slot earlier in the month, but Bellarchi gave it a clean sporting headline at Chester. The official result details from Sporting Life’s Queen Charlotte Fillies’ Stakes result listed the off time at 15:33 and the winning time as 1m 24.39s.
Late Burst Gives Tuer Mare Listed Breakthrough
For Mason, it was a composed ride in a race that became compressed late, with several fillies still holding claims inside the final 110 yards. Bellarchi had arrived in form after two wins from her previous three starts, and this step into Listed company now reads as a timely career-best.
For Tuer, the result strengthens a productive summer profile and gives Bellarchi a more valuable page as a mare who has proved she can carry handicap momentum into stakes company.
