Michael Dubb, William H. Lawrence, The Elkstone Group and Michael Kisber's Fitz Right (Charlatan) remained perfect in three starts at three in 2026, sitting a clean trip in clear air before powering past favored Lion Lake (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) to take Friday's GII Wonder Again Stakes on day two of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga. It was a record-extending seventh victory and fourth in the last five runnings for trainer Chad Brown in the Wonder Again, first contested in 2014.The narrow 3-1 second choice, Fitz Right was away without incident from gate two and was a forward factor for the opening few strides, but she was content to come back to Flavien Prat and sit third, as last-out Hilltop Stakes heroine Coach Mazzula (Authentic) matched motors with the 6-5 chalk through moderate fractions of :24.42 and :48.48.Fitz Right began to creep into contention, having bridged a five-length gap, with three furlongs to race, and sensing that he was about to have some company to his outside, John Velazquez went for Lion Lake–beaten a neck when third in the GIII Appalachian Stakes and GII Edgewood Stakes in her two most recent runs–once heads were turned for home.Lion Lake had a bit of a kick and met the outside challenge of Fitz Right, but the latter poked her head in front at the furlong grounds and edged clear. 'TDN Rising Star' Time to Dream (Not This Time) looked dangerous for a stride or two at the eighth pole, but she flattened out and could do no better than third.A Meadowlands maiden winner at second asking last September, Fitz Right–a $200,000 Keeneland September yearling–was a longshot sixth in the Chelsey Flower Stakes at the Big A Nov. 6 and called it a season. A 5 1/2-length allowance winner at Tampa Jan. 18, the chestnut proved a ready winner of the Apr. 26 Memories of Silver Stakes downstate in her most recent appearance. Wonder Again and Memories of Silver were two of the best turf distaffers campaigned by various members of the Phillips Family of Darby Dan Farm fame.“She [Fitz Right] got a dream trip with a nice pace duel in front of her between two good fillies,” Brown said. “There was no sure thing they would come back to us, but Flavien [Prat] saved all the ground, was able to get out and give her at least a chance. When the two fillies came to even terms at the end of the race, our filly just had a little more want. I'm very proud of her. She's really developed from two to three.”The conditioner said Fitz Right would very likely make her next start in the GI Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks over nine furlongs on July 4.“She trains here locally. She got a nice run over this turf course. It doesn't seem like a little more extra distance would bother her,” Brown said.Pedigree Notes:I'm a Looker, a $4,500 purchase as a yearling at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton February Sale and later dead-heat winner of the 2016 GIII Winning Colors Stakes for Glenmare Farm and trainer Patrick Dupuy, was purchased by Stonestreet for $475,000 at Keeneland November in 2017 and Fitz Right is the latest of four winners from the mare.The second dam is void of black-type, bar I'm a Looker, but third dam Ropa Usada, a half-sister to Mogambo, produced SW & GSP Our Josephina (Tale of the Cat), herself responsible for the late two-time Grade I winner Dortmund (Big Brown).The last-listed produce from I'm a Looker is the 2-year-old colt Anzac (Jackie's Warrior). Make it three in a row for FITZ RIGHT!Flavien Prat guides her to victory in the Grade 2 Wonder Again Stakes pres. by @Shift4 for trainer Chad Brown. pic.twitter.com/L9nbk6IITw— NYRA () (@TheNYRA) June 5, 2026 Friday, SaratogaWONDER AGAIN S. PRESENTED BY SHIFT4-GII, $300,000, Saratoga, 6-5, 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:40.39, fm.1–FITZ RIGHT, 122, f, 3, by Charlatan 1st Dam: I'm a Looker (GSW, $316,134), by Henny Hughes 2nd Dam: Our Mariella, by Victory Gallop 3rd Dam: Ropa Usada, by Danzig 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($200,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP).O-Michael Dubb, William H. Lawrence, The Elkstone Group,LLC (Stuart Grant) and Michael E. Kisber; B-StonestreetThoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-FlavienPrat. $165,000. Lifetime Record: 6-4-1-0, $301,950. *1/2 toEliminate (Curlin), SP, $274,195. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.2–Lion Lake (Ire), 124, f, 3, Dark Angel (Ire)–Urjuwaan (GB),by Cape Cross (Ire). (€150,000 Ylg '24 GOFORY). O-EmceeStable LLC; B-Camas Park, Lynch Bages & Summerhill (IRE);T-Brendan P. Walsh. $60,000.3–Time to Dream, 122, f, 3, Not This Time–Wild Silk, by StreetSense. 'TDN Rising Star'. ($750,000 Ylg '24 FTSAUG). O-RepoleStable; B-Maggie Gieseke (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $36,000.Margins: 1, 3/4, 2. Odds: 3.09, 1.34, 3.18.Also Ran: Coach Mazzula, Quiet Street, Call On Me, Tax Holiday (GB). Scratched: Pashmina, Soloist. Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.The post Charlatan’s Fitz Right Wins Third Straight In Wonder Again appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.