Alto Belle to face six in Busanda

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Alto Belle, an 18 1/2-length winner of a maiden race at Aqueduct in November, heads a field of seven entered for Saturday’s $100,000 Busanda Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct.

The Busanda, run at a mile and 70 yards, is the first of three races on this circuit that offer qualifying points to the Kentucky Oaks on May 6 at Churchill Downs.

Alto Belle is trained by Todd Pletcher, who has won three straight and four of the last five runnings of the Busanda. In 2013, he won it with Princess of Sylmar, who went on to win the Kentucky Oaks.

Completing the field are Flora Dora, the winner of the My Dear Girl Stakes as a maiden; Arch or Nothing; Dreams to Reality; Kentucky Road; Scatoosh; and the maiden She’s So Fine, third to Scatoosh in her only start.

◗ The Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan Stakes, which was scheduled for Monday but was canceled due to high winds, has been rescheduled for Sunday. It will be open to original nominees and redrawn Thursday.