Youknownothing, a 4-year-old filly trained by Miguel Clement, will travel to Laurel Park on Saturday and take on the boys in the $125,000 Maryland Million Turf. Poor weather and also-eligible runners may be the only thing capable of stopping the filly, who seems to hold a decisive advantage over seven male rivals in the main field. Clement described a rainy forecast as another headache while he prepared the filly for a number of changes at Laurel. The filly will add blinkers for the first time and cut back to 1 1/8 miles after three straight starts at 1 1/2 miles. “We have been trying to put some speed into her,” Clement said. “She’s a very good stayer, so we’ve been working a little bit sharper and shorter, with blinkers on, and we’ve been trying to put some speed into her to help out.” In April at Keeneland, Youknownothing was a distant runner-up in the Grade 3 Bewitch and did not race again until July. Back off the bench at Saratoga, she ran well to finish third by a half-length in a $115,000 allowance. In a $200,000 allowance at Kentucky Downs in August, she improved to finish second behind Stellify, the next-out winner of the Grade 3 Ladies Marathon Invitational at Kentucky Downs. :: Access morning workout reports straight from the tracks and get an edge with DRF Clocker Reports The Graham Motion gelding Hardspun Reason and Arnaud Delacour colt Fulmineo are coming out of stakes company, but both Maryland-bred runners will have to draw into the Maryland-sired field with the help of scratches. Ladies Maryland-bred mare Lifelovenlaughter may loom large as an also-eligible threat, but 3-year-old filly Mopo has the advantage of a guaranteed spot in the $125,000 Maryland Million Ladies on Saturday. The versatile turf runner has kept good company throughout her 2025 campaign and Mopo’s trainer, Phil Capuano, said that she is ready for her stakes debut. “If [Lifelovenlaughter] does draw in, then there’s really nothing I can do about it,” Capuano said. “You just hope that you get a good trip and you leave everything out there and just hope your horse runs her race.” Since switching to the turf in April, Mopo has drastically improved to become a contender in the Mid-Atlantic allowance ranks. Aside from an impressive maiden victory at Pimlico in May, she has finished second in 4 of 5 starts on the grass. Two of those defeats came against Brittany Russell filly In This Moment and she later ran behind Mischief in Motion, now a stakes winner for Mike Trombetta. Because Lifelovenlaughter is not Maryland-sired, the 5-year-old mare must draw in from the also-eligible list. After two restricted stakes victories and a hard-fought runner-up finish in the $100,000 Sensible Lady Turf Dash last month, she will be an overwhelming favorite for Trombetta if she makes the starting gate. Precious Avary always seems to save her best for this race. After winning the 2023 edition, the 5-year-old mare ran a stronger race in defeat behind heavy favorite Circle Home in 2024. Trainer Tim Shaw said that she is similarly prepared to tackle the event after a five-furlong prep at Monmouth Park last month. Turf Sprint After years of knocking around in the Mid-Atlantic turf ranks, Whenigettoheaven will enter his third Maryland Million Turf Sprint with a slight edge over familiar rivals. The 6-year-old gelding arguably ran the two best races of his career this summer and should be a dangerous pace presence on Saturday. “He’s proven to be tactical,” trainer Nolan Ramsey said. “Before I claimed him, he’d been kind of settling towards the rear of the field and making one run. And then once I got him, he started finding himself a little more forwardly placed.” In June, Whenigettoheaven returned to Laurel for the $100,000 Ben’s Cat and became a two-time winner of that race with a stubborn, three-quarter-length victory over Determined Kingdom. Those two rivals squared off again in the $100,000 Meadow Stable Handicap at Colonial Downs in August. This time, they dueled and Whenigettoheaven prevailed on the front end to win by a head. “We opted to give him a little bit extra time, come into the Maryland Million nice and fresh,” Ramsey said. Witty, the 2023 winner of the Turf Sprint, will return for a third straight year in search of an improved effort, having finished eighth in the race last year after a poor start. The popular deep closer has notched two stakes wins for trainer Elizabeth Merryman this year and is sure to do his best running late. Sprint Capuano and trainer Robert Bailes will square off again, this time with geldings sired by Great Notion, in the $100,000 Maryland Million Sprint, the final stakes on the card at Laurel Park Saturday. Slam Notion and Haileysfirstnotion are both key contenders in the field of nine local sprinters. Bailes kept Slam Notion at Colonial over the summer and momentarily switched him to turf before returning to dirt in early September. He made his starts on dirt in the $125,000 Star de Naskra and an $80,000 allowance, winning both seven-furlong sprints in comfortable fashion. While Bailes took his Great Notion gelding to Virginia over the summer, Capuano took Haileysfirstnotion to Delaware, where he extended his streak of first- or second-place finishes to six straight starts. After a 2 1/4-length victory in July, he returned last month and missed by a nose in a $100,000 statebred allowance. Juvenile stakes A stacked Maryland Million Day card at Laurel Park will also feature two $100,000 stakes for juveniles, the Nursery and the Lassie. Bailes has the favorite, Slewperstitus, in the Lassie, but Gary Capuano has the best chance of sweeping the two races. In the Nursery, Capuano entered second-time starters Big Cuddle and Buds Notion after similarly commanding maiden special weight victories at Delaware Park. Big Cuddle rallied from fifth to win his race by 2 1/2 lengths on Sept. 11, while Buds Notion went straight to the lead and kicked away to a 5 1/2-length score on Sept. 20. Any juvenile in the deep field of 14, along with two also-eligible runners, stands a chance at improving, but Capuano’s pair is coming off the flashiest debut victories. Lundi Loot, another Delaware shipper, finished second in his last two starts for Lynn Ashby and also seems to fit well. In the Lassie, Capuano entered Doc’s Miracle, who improved to finish second at 18-1 odds in the $100,000 Small Wonder at Delaware last month. The filly finally seems to be breaking through for Capuano after six career starts, but she will likely have to step forward again to contend with Slewperstitus. The filly kicked off a stint at Colonial with a bang in July, when she powered home to an 8 3/4-length victory in a restricted $90,000 maiden special weight. In the $100,000 Keswick on dirt and $125,000 Dolley Madison on grass, she finished second behind undefeated filly Just Philtored. She came up short by a neck in the Keswick and will return to dirt on Saturday. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.