Consistent Field Pass looks to get back on track in Find Stakes

Millionaire Field Pass is the 2-1 morning line favorite in Saturday’s Find Stakes for 3-year-olds and upward at Laurel Park. The Find is one of two $75,000 stakes for statebred or sired performers scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the turf along with the All Brandy for fillies and mares.

Trained by Michael Maker, Field Pass has been a consistent performer. Second in the Grade 3 With Anticipation at Saratoga at 2, he enjoyed his best season the following year with Grade 3 victories at Turfway, Keeneland, and Woodbine.

Field Pass captured the Grade 3 Baltimore-Washington International at Pimlico and the Grade 2 Seabiscuit at Del Mar at 4 and was placed first via disqualification in last year’s Texas Turf Classic at Lone Star.

Winless from two starts in 2023, Field Pass drops into a restricted stakes for the first time.

:: Bet with the Best! Get Free DRF PPs and Cashback when you wager. Join DRF Bets.

Sky’s Not Falling is no stranger to state-sired competition as he captured the Maryland Million Turf Sprint at 5 1/2 furlongs last fall. Although the Seville gelding has spent most of his career at shorter distances, he won an allowance at a mile May 6, and exits a third-place finish in the Prince George’s County at nine furlongs.

“I was a little surprised,” trainer Michael Trombetta said about Sky’s Not Falling’s success at longer distances. “That mare has been very, very good to [owner Larry Johnson]. I’ve had several stakes horses out of that mare, and they’ve done both distances.”

Brittany Russell sends out two runners with contrasting styles. The Addison Pour is a late-running, long-striding Tonalist gelding that has cracked the board in all three turf starts. Wish Me Home, claimed for $40,000 out of a runner-up effort, captured his first start for Russell, a first-level allowance, in gate-to-wire fashion.

Wicked Prankster utilized pacesetting tactics to notch the Maryland Million Turf last fall. Although the gelding has yet to win in 2023, his speed coupled with the inside post virtually assures him a spot as a strong pace player.

Crabs N Beer, B Determined, Tom Hagen, My Boy Paddy, and Tappin Cat also are entered. Galerio is entered main-track only.

All Brandy

Coconut Cake finished a close third in last year’s All Brandy Stakes and was tabbed the 9-5 morning line choice in the 2023 edition.

Trained by Tim Keefe, Coconut Cake rallied from off the pace to take the restricted Jameela at six furlongs July 1, then didn’t have the easiest trip two weeks later when wide in the open Big Dreyfus.

Keefe believes that Coconut Cake gets along exceedingly well with jockey Sheldon Russell, who was aboard for both of the mare’s stakes victories.

“She had a nice little work last Sunday on the grass,” said Keefe. “Sheldon worked her, and everything is going well.”

Thegirlfromireland has won two of her last three for trainer Graham Motion, and the 3-year-old tries stakes company for the first time after a solid first-level allowance win June 23.

Except Temptation, Downtown Katie, Police Woman, Gold Digging Broad, Amplio Esquema, Chelichna, and Dry Well are also expected. Intrepid Daydream and Malibu Beauty are entered main-track only.

:: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.