Like so many grass races this Hawthorne meet, two Illinois-bred stakes on Saturday fell victim to wet conditions. The Illini Princess and the Buck’s Boy both were moved to dirt because of a sodden turf course, and both races, packed with statebred talent, were considerably weakened. Goneghost won the Buck’s Boy by 5 1/4 lengths over Devileye, a talented 3-year-old who took his first loss in six starts. In the Illini Princess, trainer Chris Block decided to leave Prado’s Sweet Ride in despite her long record on turf and short history on dirt, and Prado’s Sweet Ride responded with a 13 1/4-length win, running faster than Goneghost did two races later. “I’d run her twice on dirt before, and she held herself together pretty well,” said Block, who trains Prado’s Sweet Ride for Darrell and Sadie Brommer. “On top of that, she’d been training really, really well over the Hawthorne surface.” Prado’s Sweet Ride, a 5-year-old homebred by Fort Prado, won for the seventh time in 23 starts – and she’s not done yet. “She’s going to run one more year and then be a broodmare,” said Block. “We’re going to see how she comes out of this and train her for a couple weeks, then decide whether we find something else this year. Ultimately she’ll have a break in Ocala and race at Tampa next year.” In Cammack, Block appeared to have a live runner for the Buck’s Boy, but the surface switch forced a scratch. Cammack will instead proceed directly to the Claiming Crown on Dec. 2 at Gulfstream Park, Block said. Dirt feature Friday Hawthorne has gotten in only 14 grass races during the meet, which started Oct. 6, and while the track has been wise about not carding turf races that never had a chance to happen, there is turf on the menu for Friday’s nine-race card (first post 3:10 Central). The intended grass races are the first and the third, while the feature, race 8, is a second-level allowance with a $25,000 claiming option carded for one mile 70 yards on dirt. A competitive field of eight is entered, but St. Louie Guy looks best, perhaps at a square price. St Louie Guy, a 3-year-old, mainly has sprinted during a 16-start career, but he turned in one of his best races when stretched to two turns last spring at Hawthorne, and comfortably won a two-turn mile this past summer at Fairmount.