SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Sophie Doyle knew that trainer Larry Jones’s phone was constantly ringing this winter with calls from jockey agents wanting to know if he was considering making a rider change for his 3-year-old filly Street Band. Finally, after Doyle won the Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks on Street Band in March, Doyle said Jones told her, “That just put everybody to bed who kept ringing and asking to take you off.” “It’s really nice to have that kind of faith and trust from Mr. Jones,” Doyle said. :: Get PPs, Clocker Reports, picks, and more from DRF's Saratoga/Del Mar One-Stop Shop Doyle will be aboard Street Band for the eighth consecutive time Saturday in the Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. It will be Doyle’s first mount at Saratoga. “Finally, my time has come,” Doyle said Wednesday from Chicago where she rides regularly at Arlington Park. “I’m actually thrilled to be there this weekend.” Doyle, is the daughter of former trainer Jacqueline Doyle and sister to the Group 1-winning jockey James Doyle. In 2015, Sophie Doyle had success with the filly Fioretti, winning the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America at Keeneland and riding her in the Breeders’ Cup. She has two graded stakes wins and three victories overall on Street Band. Doyle was on Street Band for her 3 1/2-length victory in the Grade 3 Indiana Oaks on July 13. That race came after Street Band finished seventh – elevated to sixth via a disqualification – in the Kentucky Oaks after an extremely wide trip. Jones said that Street Band was a difficult filly for other riders, but when he put Doyle on the two got along almost immediately. “We’re two fiery redheads. We got that common streak together,” Doyle said. “We get along really well. That’s one of the main reasons I’ve tried to be on Street Band throughout all her workouts. She is a little bit quirky. It can just take one other person to get on a horse like her, not get along with her, and a freak accident happens and it sets you back.” In order to be on Street Band for her workouts at Churchill Downs this summer, Doyle drives 10 hours round trip from Chicago. “I feel like it’s part of the job,” Doyle said. “There have been a few jockeys who have been asking to work her, so I just make sure I secured the deal. Larry would say, ‘It’s okay, we can get somebody to breeze her once or twice and you can come in for the big works.’ I just ring him up and ask, ‘What time are we going out in the morning?’ ” Doyle was aboard Street Band on Monday when she worked five furlongs in 59.80 seconds at Churchill Downs. “That was the best work she’s done since the Kentucky Oaks,” she said. “The way she relaxed and traveled for me is the way I hope she would go when she runs in the Alabama.” Street Band figures to be fourth or fifth choice in the Alabama, a 1 1/4-mile race topped by Dunbar Road, winner of the Grade 2 Mother Goose; Point of Honor, winner of the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan; and Lady Apple, winner of the Grade 3 Iowa Oaks. Also entered in the race were Champagne Anyone, Ulele, Off Topic, and Kelsey’s Cross. Jones, who along with his wife, Cindy, is part-owner of Street Band, believes Doyle has plenty of talent and just needs the opportunity. “There are a lot of people in this business that know how to do things that just don’t get the opportunity to go and show themselves and succeed,” Jones said. “Until Hard Spun came along my owners always needed to get along to somebody else. Until you get a chance to hang onto a good horse you can’t prove yourself. My feeling is whoever gets you to the dance, that’s who you dance with.”