Bolting to the front from the far outside post in the reduced field of five in the 5½-furlong dash, Chalon breezed to a one-length victory over Bronx Beauty, with Delacour now setting his sights on getting an elusive graded stakes victory for the 6-year-old daughter of Dialed In-Fall Fantasy by Menifee.

Chalon, supplemented to the Incredible Revenge, now sports a 9-7-1 line from 21 career starts and inched closer to becoming a millionaire with the $45,000 winner’s share of the $75,000 purse boosting her career earnings to $971,895.

After a rare clunker in her seasonal debut on June 27 at Belmont Park, when she was a badly-beaten sixth, Chalon has now won two straight.

“She’s a really neat mare,” said Delacour. “When we brought her back at Belmont this year she didn’t like the track, it was a little deep, and she was pinched inside. That’s the only time she didn’t fire. But other than that she shows up. I was glad we were able to get into the race after it came off the turf but the question mark was the track. She has never run on a sloppy track. So going in you don’t know.”

Chalon, ridden by Paco Lopez, quickly shook off any early challenges and controlled the race through fractions of :22.74 to the quarter and :46.40 to the half. Final time for the 5½ furlongs was 1:05.32.

“She had a lot of early speed today,” said Lopez. “I normally want to be second or third early with her but she wanted the lead. She was like a bullet today so I just let her go.

“I know her very well. I have won a couple of good races with her but this is the first time she wanted to lead this early. It was a short field and we weren’t sure about the slop so I just let her go. She handled it very well. She’s a nice mare. Very consistent. She tries very hard all the time.”

Though Chalon has been graded stakes-placed multiple times – including a near miss in the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, when she was beaten a head in the Grade 1 race — that first graded stakes victory has escaped her so far.

“The hope is we can finally get her a graded stakes win,” said Delacour. “So we will point her to the (Grade 2) Honorable Miss at Saratoga (on Sept. 6).”

Chalon, owned by Lael Stables, returned $3.40 as the favorite. Sunny Dale finished third, 1¼ lengths behind Bronx Beauty.