The Saturday card at Colonial Downs is a fitting closer to the track’s comeback meet. It includes two steeplechases, five Virginia-restricted stakes, and all 11 races are on turf. This year’s 15-day meet is the first Thoroughbred session at Colonial since 2013. Track management and the Virginia Equine Alliance hope to double the number of dates next year while keeping the purse structure steady at $500,000 per day. The Saturday purse total is $760,000. Rain from Hurricane Dorian is expected to blow through the region from Thursday afternoon to midday Friday, but AccuWeather is forecasting partly cloudy skies and a high in the mid-80s for Saturday. First post is 5 p.m. Eastern. The stakes are the Bert Allen and Brookmeade at 1 1/8 miles, and the Punch Line, Camptown, and Jamestown at 5 1/2 furlongs. The Jamestown is for 2-year-olds, the others are for 3-year-olds and up in open and female divisions. Bert Allen: The 1 1/8-mile race has an eight-horse field that includes the first six finishers from the one-mile Edward P. Evans Stakes on Aug. 10. River Deep ran too well to lose the Evans, and in the end he didn’t. Speed Gracer, last to the stretch, finished well to overhaul pacesetting River Deep by a length. But he came inward in the final sixteenth, bumping another late-runner, K D’s Cat Bird, who had to steady and finished fourth. Speed Gracer, who has always had trouble winning – he is now 2 for 25 – was disqualified and placed behind K D’s Cat Bird. The win was River Deep’s eighth from 22 starts. River Deep should be able to control the pace in the Allen, just as he did in the Evans. The extra furlong will test him, though, and at the same time work to the advantage of Speed Gracer. River Deep won last year’s Allen at Laurel Park by 8 1/2 lengths as the 4-5 favorite. Jamestown: The 5 1/2-furlong juvenile sprint has a field of nine but looks like a two-horse race between the promising 2-year-olds Embolden and Bella Aurora. Embolden, a son of The Factor, finished second on dirt at Monmouth Park in his debut and then won by 10 lengths over the Colonial turf on opening day, Aug. 8. Embolden was a $95,000 purchase at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. sale in April, and the horse that beat him at Monmouth, Meru, was a $300,000 buy at that same auction. Embolden is trained by Mike Stidham, who has been on quite a roll. Since Aug. 24, Stidham has gone 11 for 27 (40 percent). He won the Virginia Oaks and Kitten’s Joy at Colonial last Saturday, and on Sunday won the Sorority at Monmouth and the Ontario Jockey Club at Woodbine. Bella Aurora, a filly, races in the Jamestown for Mike Trombetta, who also is on a hot streak. Trombetta is 6 for 19 (31 percent) since Aug. 24 and 11 for 36 (30 percent) since Aug. 15. He won the Grade 3 Saranac at Saratoga with Global Access last Saturday and the La Lorgnette at Woodbine the following day with Souper Escape. Bella Aurora comes into the Jamestown off a two-length maiden win over the Laurel turf. Punch Line: Seven of the nine entrants in the 5 1/2-furlong Punch Line met in the Meadow Stable here Aug. 10, including one-length winner Elusive Mischief, who is based in Kentucky with trainer Ian Wilkes. Elusive Mischief was 2-5 in the Meadow Stable and will be well bet again. He is 2 for 2 in Virginia-restricted company, having won the Punch Line in 2018. His strongest challenge seems sure to come from Boldor, whom Steve Asmussen ships in from Churchill Downs. Boldor, a 3-year-old, will be making his turf debut and first start since finishing sixth in the Grade 3 Southwest at Oaklawn Park in February. In his prior start, he finished third, beaten a half-length, in the Smarty Jones at Oaklawn. Camptown: What the Beep was a 6-5 winner of the M. Tyson Gilpin stakes here Aug. 10 for trainer Karen Godsey and owner-breeder Eagle Point Farm, drawing off to a one-length win. She will need her best in this 5 1/2-furlong sprint, a race in which she finished a clear second a year ago. Trainer Vladimir Cerin sends Holly Hundy in from Southern California and has named Kent Desormeaux to ride. She most recently finished fourth in optional-claiming company at Del Mar. She won back-to-back five-furlong turf sprints at Santa Anita in the spring. River Gal shortens up from a mile after finishing a close third in the Nellie Cox. River Gal had a shot at the win in the final sixteenth but was outfinished by her older rivals. The shorter distance should give her more punch when she needs it. Brookmeade: Tryon Summer went wire to wire to win the one-mile Nellie Cox after being allowed to dictate a leisurely pace, but faces new challengers in this race as she stretches out to 1 1/8 miles. Trainer Robert Hess Jr. sends in Seaside Dancer, whom he claimed for $50,000 in June at Santa Anita. In her first start for Hess, Seaside Dancer won a $25,000 starter race at Parx Racing. She has good route speed and is riding a five-race win streak. Barclay Tagg ships the closer Ferdinanda south from New York. Ferdinanda finished second by a neck in a second-level optional claimer on Aug. 1 at Saratoga.