Broodmare of the Year Leslie’s Lady passed away Monday at the age of 26. Yet the doyenne of Fred Mitchell’s Clarkland Farm will live long in pedigrees.

The Phipps Stable and Claiborne Farm have a promising older horse to look forward to for next year in Performer, who repelled a bid from the favored Tax to take Saturday's $203,200 Discovery (G3).

Jim Dandy (G2) winner Tax, unraced since a seventh in the Travers (G1), will return off a three-month freshening to face seven in Saturday’s $200,000 Discovery (G3).