Surprisingly heads a strong field of fillies and mares in Saturday’s Dahlia Stakes on the Laurel Park turf. The one-mile Dahlia is one of five $100,000 stakes on the card for 3-year-olds and up along with the Native Dancer at 1 1/8 miles, the King T. Leatherbury at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf, the Primonetta for fillies and mares at six furlongs, and the Henry S. Clark at one mile on turf. The stakes, originally scheduled for last Saturday, were postponed and redrawn after concerns about the condition of the main track forced the cancellation of five racing programs at Laurel. A Phipps Stable homebred by Mastery, Surprisingly is from the family of Grade 1 winners Point of Entry, Pine Island, and Pleasant Home. She’s lived up to her pedigree this year. Surprisingly captured the Grade 3 Endeavour on Feb. 4 at Tampa Bay Downs for trainer Shug McGaughey, then earned a career-best 90 Beyer when third in the Grade 2 Hillsborough on March 11. Trainer Graham Motion counters with two horses making their seasonal debuts with first-time Lasix. :: Bet the races on DRF Bets! Sign up with code WINNING to get a $250 Deposit Match, $10 Free Bet, and FREE DRF Formulator.  Sopran Basilea, a Group 2 winner in Italy, was purchased for $315,000 at auction in December. Motion entered Sopran Basilea in Friday’s Grade 3 Bewitch at 1 1/2 miles at Keeneland but will instead run here, weather permitting. As of Thursday morning, there is a good chance of Saturday afternoon thundershowers, and Motion won’t run Sopran Basilea if the Dahlia is taken off the turf. Motion believes the mile is sharp for Sopran Basilea, who earned her five wins at distances from nine to 11 furlongs. “We felt like it was a local race to get her started,” Motion said. “In the mornings, she shows enough turn of foot that you’d think she could handle it. She is a little aggressive in training, and that was another reason I was anxious about running 1 1/2 miles the first time.” Miss Carol Ann finished sixth in her North American debut last fall in the Grade 3 Pebbles during the Belmont at Aqueduct meet. “I thought it was a decent effort,” Motion said. “She shipped over that week for the race.” Motion feels the filly benefited from the winter off. “She’s filled out,” he said. “I think she looks like a different horse.” Deciding Vote won last year’s Dahlia off a layoff, a pattern trainer Edward Graham repeats in 2023. Deciding Vote is a stakes winner on dirt and turf and has performed well on wet grass. Double Fireball, Silver Currency, Takntothecleaners, Misty Mauve and Youens also are entered. Mit Mazel races main track only. King T. Leatherbury Trainer Michael Moore and jockey Andy Hernandez teamed up to win Monday’s Page McKenney Handicap at Parx with Twisted Ride. They’re back at it again with speedy That’s Right in the King T. Leatherbury. That’s Right, who wired the field in Parx’s Grade 3 Turf Monster on Sept. 24, finished fifth in his final start of 2022, the Carle Place at the Belmont at Aqueduct session. “He knows one way to run,” Moore said. “He’s going.” :: Get Daily Racing Form Past Performances – the exclusive home of Beyer Speed Figures Breakthrough took Monmouth Park’s Wolf Hill Stakes in gate-to-wire fashion last summer, then finished his season with a third-place effort in the Rainbow Heir there on Aug. 14. He can also be a forward factor in the Leatherbury. If the pace is hot, Determined Kingdom can threaten. This will be his first start since a sixth-place effort in the Meadow Stable at Colonial Downs on Sept. 7. “He was entered at Meadowlands,” trainer Phil Schoenthal said last week. “Something must have happened on the van ride up or in the stall because when we jogged him for the state vet, he was not sound. We couldn’t find anything wrong. He was fine in a couple of weeks, and we turned him out.” Determined Kingdom was entered on April 13 at Laurel, but Schoenthal said: “He was playing around, nicked a hind leg, and it blew up on him. I’m not worried about that at all now. He’s fine.” Can the Queen, E J’s Revenge, Boat’s a Rockin, Grateful Bred, Backnthewoods, and Showtime Cat are also entered. Alwaysinahurry, Synthesis, Breezy Gust, Stage Left, and Karan’s Notion are entered main track only. Primonetta Schoenthal is likely pleased that Prodigy Doll redrew post 4 in the Primonetta after she was assigned post 2 last week. “We’ve always felt and known that she does her best running on the outside of horses,” he said. Prodigy Doll enters in good form after finishing second in the Correction on March 11 at Aqueduct. Primonetta entrant Oxana captured the Roamin Rachel at Parx last fall, then placed in two more stakes before being put away for the winter by trainer Tim Hills. “I’d be very surprised if she needed a race,” Hills said last week. Trainer John Robb entered stakes winners Princess Kokachin and Street Lute along with razor-sharp Fuhgeddaboudit. Princess Kokachin finished second in both her starts this year, both at 5 1/2 furlongs, and looms a solid pace factor. “I think she’ll run her best race, but I think it’s a little too tough for her at three-quarters against that quality of horse,” Robb said. Street Lute, a stakes winner in 2020, 2021 and 2022, finished second against restricted competition in the Conniver on March 18. She’ll also be making her third start of the year. “She was just a dominant 2- and 3-year-old around here. Now she’s running against the real older horses, and that always catches up with them. On the other hand, she did need a couple of races,” Robb said. :: Take your handicapping to the next level and play with FREE DRF Past Performances - Formulator or Classic.  Jockey Xavier Perez chose Street Lute over Princess Kokachin, according to Robb. Fuhgeddaboudit steps up after three straight victories. “Her last two or three races have been good,” Robb said. “The bad news is she’s run herself out of conditions, and now she must step up.” Recent winner Moody Woman and New York shipper Easy to Bless complete the field. ◗ Motion-trained English Bee and McGaughey-trained Smokin’ T are prime contenders shipping from Gulfstream for the Henry S. Clark. “I do worry about him on soft turf,” Motion said of English Bee on Thursday, noting that the horse’s best races have come on “rock-hard” turf. Ocala Dream, You Must Chill, and Sky’s Not Falling deserve respect in the competitive field. Bodecream returns from a lengthy layoff for trainer Horacio De Paz. ◗ Nimitz Class has established himself as one of the top handicap horses in the region, and he will be a short-priced favorite in the Native Dancer. Trained by Bruce Kravets, Nimitz Class has earned triple-digit Beyers in his last two starts, both facile stakes victories at Laurel. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.