Her dam was Star Fairy, a daughter of The Satrap, the 1926 English Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse who was a son of the great The Tetrarch.
Fairy Chant was bred by William du Pont, Jr., and raced under the banner of his Foxcatcher Farm for trainer Richard E. Handlen.
In that race, she took on a field of nine fillies and beat two stakes winners in True Call and Discerning.
She won in a final time of 1:49-4/5 for the mile and a sixteenth over dirt with jockey Ralph Neves in the irons.
She finished in the money 62% of the time, earning a win, place or show check in 26 of 42 career races.