SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The $135,000 Shine Again for female sprinters did not draw sufficient entries to be carded, leaving Wednesday’s 10-race program at Saratoga without a flat stakes feature. The card is topped by a $120,000 second-level allowance/optional $62,500 claimer scheduled for 1 1/16 miles over the Mellon turf course. The race drew eight turf runners and six horses to run only if the race were to be rained off to the main track, an unlikely scenario given the forecast. Trainer Chad Brown and owner Peter Brant send out the coupled entry of Rocky Sky and American Bridge in this spot. Rocky Sky is dropping out of a fourth-place finish in the Miss Liberty Stakes at Monmouth Park where she was headstrong while kept wide by Hector Diaz Jr. In the stretch, Rocky Sky got boxed in between horses and was beaten 1 1/4 lengths by Whimsical Muse. Flippant, who finished third by three-quarters of a length over Rocky Sky that day, came back to win a $100,000 stakes at Horseshoe Indianapolis on July 9 with a career-high 90 Beyer Speed Figure. Irad Ortiz Jr. had ridden Rocky Sky in her two U.S. starts prior to the Miss Liberty, but Brown is putting Ortiz on American Bridge and Flavien Prat, who previously had ridden that horse, on Rocky Sky. :: DRF's Saratoga headquarters – Stakes schedule, previews, recaps, past performances, and more Prat rode American Bridge in a second-level allowance at Belmont Park on June 5. In what was her first start in nine months, American Bridge ran off to the lead early and opened up a 5 1/4-length advantage after a half-mile. She was still in contention to mid-stretch but faded to last during the final furlong. “That wasn’t the plan,” Brown said of the front-running tactics. “I decided to switch the jockeys around. Maybe they didn’t get along with them. I’d like [American Bridge] off the pace a little bit here.” American Bridge, a Great Britain-bred daughter of Kodiac, won a Group 3 stakes in Italy from off the pace. If American Bridge is taken off the pace, she likely will be following either Angel Palm and/or Juxtapose, who are both drawn to the outside. Angel Palm, a Great Britain-bred daughter of Dark Angel, won a first-level allowance on the lead going a mile at Belmont on May 14. She came back and finished fifth in her first try in this condition going 1 1/16 miles at Belmont on June 12. “I like her being up close on the lead like that,” said Brad Cox, trainer of Angel Palm. “Last time, we didn’t really get away as well as I expected or was hoping for. A mile and a sixteenth, she should hopefully be able to put herself up into the race.” :: Visit the Saratoga Handicapping Store for Past Performances, Clocker Reports, Picks, Betting Strategies and more. Juxtapose is going first off the claim for trainer Steve Klesaris, who took her for $40,000 at Belmont and is offering her for $62,500 here. The 6-year-old mare Bramble Bay is coming off a victory in a New Jersey-bred stakes at Monmouth on July 9. The seven-time winner is in for the claiming tag as is Princess Fawzia, third two back in this condition at Belmont. Poca Mucha and Movie Moxy complete the order of finish on turf. ◗ The first race on Wednesday’s card is the $75,000 Jonathan Kiser Novice Steeplechase Stakes. Howyabud seeks his third straight victory over jumps. Burn The Evidence is another seeking a third win over the jumps in limited tries.