Bellarchi will be competing in the Aston Martin Surrey Stakes at Epsom on Friday, and she brings experience to the table.
After a hectic juvenile season in which she placed several times in races lasting five, six, and seven furlongs, and won three races, the Grant Tuer-trained mare has now raced nineteen times.
She has been in excellent form this year for her owners, Nick Bradley Racing, having won twice at Southwell and Ascot before moving up to the Listed division at York last time out.
She finished sixth out of nine in the Sky Bet Fillies Stakes over a mile, but she didn't feel embarrassed and will return at the same spot on Oaks Day.
“She’s a good filly, I think she’s way overpriced,” Bradley said of the chestnut. “At York, she was too far back, which was a combination of jockey error and my error. We tried to adopt similar tactics to Ascot, but the pace wasn’t there to be run at. We’ll sit close, I think the Stuart Williams filly looks smart and I like the Eve Johnson Houghton horse as well. She will definitely outrun her odds, I would like to think she’ll finish in the top three and I’d be disappointed if she didn’t. She has probably run more than the rest of the field put together. Do I think she can win off her mark? Yes, absolutely. Could she win? If things go her way. She looks exposed but a lot of this field has potential rather than have already done it, to me she has already done it. She’s overpriced, she’s drawn well, I think she goes there with a good each-way chance.”