Dave Litfin

  The main track is fast and the turf courses are firm for Saturday's 10-race card, highlighted by the Grade 2 Vagrancy Handicap (9th) for fillies and mares.   Hilda's Passion, who set the pace and finished second while against the grain of a strong outside closer's bias in the Humana Distaff last out, will be odds-on in the 6 1/2-furlong Vagrancy as she spots four rivals anywhere from 6-10 pounds. Post time is 5:17 p.m. Eastern.   There is a $300,000 guaranteed late pick-4 that begins with race 7 at 4:12 p.m.  

  Javier Castellano, who swept both ends of yesterday's early daily doube to kick off a 5-for-8 afternoon, has struck early and often again by riding the $11.20 double of River Fancy (1st, $5.80) for Dominic Galluscio and Algorithms (2nd, $3.40) for Todd Pletcher.   Algorithms, a Bernardini colt that took all the money in the 2-year-old maiden dash and won impressively, was Castellano's seventh winner from his last 10 mounts.  

  The main track is fast and the turf courses are firm for Friday's card, where the richest races are a $60,000 maiden special-weight dash for 2-year-olds (2nd) and the $60,000 Wandering Cloud overnight stakes (8th).   Todd Pletcher sends out two of the five juveniles in race 2, with Behemoth breaking from the rail and Algorithms from the outside in a five-horse field.   Ava K. will be favored over five rivals, including returning Maid of the Mist winner Sentimental Lass, in the Wandering Cloud.

  When you're hot, you're hot, and Javier Castellano has been on fire today. Settling into a perfect stalking trip sitting third behind a speed duel, he brought first-time starter Who's On the Case (7th, $12.60) from off the pace to take over inside the eighth pole, and then held off a late inside run from Outlaw Cody Z to win for the fifth time from six mounts on the card.  

  Javier Castellano has won with four of his first five mounts on the card. After accounting for both ends of the $47.20 early double on Starsilouette ($7.50) and Socialsaul ($11.40), he finished third with All About Alex in race 3, and then won the fifth and sixth races with Those Lion Eyes ($3.40) and Unaccountable ($6.50).