In the most wide-open stakes of the holiday weekend, 10 sophomore fillies with various credentials will clash in the 66th running of the 1 1/8-mile Comely Stakes. The Grade 3, $300,000 Comely is the seventh of 10 races Saturday and the first leg of the late pick four. Post time is 2:50 p.m. Eastern. Peace and War is the only graded stakes winner in the field, having scored a 23-1 upset in the Grade 1 Alcibiades in her U.S. debut last fall. Plenty of others have run well in graded stakes, however, among them Wonder Gal and Temper Mint Patty, the one-two finishers in the Empire Distaff on New York Showcase Day at Belmont Park five weeks ago. Before winning the Empire Distaff, Wonder Gal had run in seven consecutive Grade 1 or Grade 2 stakes, including runner-up finishes in the Frizette and Mother Goose and a close third in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. After bleeding through Lasix in the Test, she returned to the New York-bred ranks for the first time since her 2-year-old debut and won the Empire Distaff off an 11-week layoff. “We gave her time [after the Test] and brought her back slowly,” said trainer Leah Gyarmati, adding that the Empire Distaff was “a perfect spot for her” and that she came out of the race well. This will be Wonder Gal’s second attempt at 1 1/8 miles after a fourth at the distance in the Gazelle to begin her season at Aqueduct’s spring meet. “Just to look at her, you’d say the longer, the better for her,” said Gyarmati. “The Breeders’ Cup was two turns, and she ran huge, and she was wide the whole way.” :: Bet the Comely Stakes with DRF Bets and get FREE access to this article and all of DRF Plus, including Aqueduct selections, video, and real-time analysis. After winning the New York Oaks by more than nine lengths, Temper Mint Patty was purchased by Mike Repole and given over to Todd Pletcher. She comes off runner-up finishes in the Charles Town Oaks and the Empire Distaff. “I thought she ran really well the last two times,” said Pletcher. “She was simply second-best in both spots. The first time we ran her [when third in the Fleet Indian], it almost seemed like a mile and an eighth was a tick too far for her, but she was coming off a bit of a layoff there, and she’s a filly that trains like she wants a mile and an eighth, so we’ll hope that’s the case.” Four fillies in the lineup have won 1 1/8-mile dirt races, and all did so at Saratoga this summer. Jc’s Shooting Star was a maiden when she upset the Fleet Indian at 18-1 for David Donk; Pangburn was a punctual optional-claiming winner for Tony Dutrow; and Shug McGaughey got wet-track maiden victories from Carrumba and Fast Retailing. While Fast Retailing has run only once since then, finishing third in a preliminary allowance, Carrumba comes into the Comely on a three-race win streak after taking two allowance races at Belmont, including a 99 Beyer Speed Figure in the mud. “I thought [Carrumba] ran fine going around two turns,” said McGaughey, who won the Comely with Private Light in 1993 and Boca Grande in 2007. “I don’t think distance will be a problem. We’ll see if she’s ready to step up to this type of company. She’s a talented horse, and she came out of her last race and trained remarkably well.” Forever Unbridled chased I’m a Chatterbox all last winter at Fair Grounds and stretches out after a better-than-it-looked fifth in the Raven Run while returning from a layoff.