ELMONT, N.Y. – Last weekend, owner Peter Brant and trainer Chad Brown won graded turf stakes for fillies or mares with Bleecker Street and Speak of the Devil in Kentucky and Virginia Joy in New York. Saturday, Brant and Brown will unveil their shiny new toy in the distaff turf division as Rougir runs in the Grade 3, $150,000 Beaugay Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Belmont Park. Rougir raced as a 3-year-old last year for trainer Cedric Rossi and the Chehboub family’s Le Haras de La Gousserie. She won three of six starts, topped by the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp. She then raced in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf where, after being taken up sharply early on, she raced in mid-pack and finished seventh, 7 1/2 lengths behind winner Loves Only You. :: Play Belmont with confidence: Get DRF Past Performances, Picks, Clocker Reports, and Betting Strategies. In December, Rougir went through the auction ring in Deauville at the Arqana breeding stock sale where she sold for the equivalent of $3,375,272 U.S. She was purchased by a partnership that included Brant, M.V. Magnier, and Michael Tabor. Sent to Brown at Payson Park in Florida, Rougir started working on March 6 and shows 10 breezes leading to her return on Saturday. “We know that she has some good form last year and it looked like maybe she needed a break after a long campaign,” Brown told the NYRA publicity department. ”We gave her extra time and brought her along slow. Her last string of works have been impressive and she has a nice turn of foot.” Brown and Brant also send out Lemista, a private purchase last year following her 3-year-old season racing in Ireland. In her first start in the U.S., Lemista finished second in the 2021 Beaugay. She finished last in the Grade 1 Diana and third in the Grade 1 Beverly D. Brown told NYRA publicity that Lemista came out of the Beverly D. ill and was given the remainder of the year off. The other five runners in the Beaugay are hard to separate. Plum Ali, who competed with the division’s best last year, came off a six-month layoff to win the Plenty of Grace Stakes by a half-length over the Brown-trained Technical Analysis at Aqueduct on April 16. Trainer Christophe Clement was pleased with that comeback effort from Plum Ali, but knows this is a tougher spot. Plum Ali, who will be ridden by Manny Franco, has the tactical speed to be forward if the pace is soft. “With the way she won last time, we have the right to run in a graded stakes in New York,” Clement said. “If we’re happy, then we’ll carry on that way. If we’re not happy, then we’ll go out of town.” Stolen Holiday looks like the main speed of the race, though this will be her toughest assignment in her ninth career start. High Opinion, twice second in graded stakes last year, got a useful prep when finishing fourth in a six-furlong allowance last month at Aqueduct. Our Flash Drive, a Group 3 winner at Woodbine, and Runaway Rumour, a three-time winner at Belmont, complete the field. The Beaugay, which goes as the 10th of 11 races, is the last of five stakes to be run on the card.