Favorites look solid in all four stakes on Wednesday card

If the morning-line odds serve as a guide, four restricted stakes races Wednesday at Indiana Grand are all but a foregone conclusion.

Unbridled Beast is listed at even-money for the $100,000 Unreachable Star, Expect Indy is a 2-5 shot in the $100,000 Lady Fog Horn, Betsdownletsride is a daunting 1-5 on the line for the $75,000 Crown Ambassador, and Hungarian Princess is the morning-line 2-5 chalk for the $75,000 Indiana Stallion Fillies.

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All four races are for horses bred in Indiana and by Indiana-registered stallions. The Indiana Stallion (race 7), for 2-year-old fillies, and the Crown Ambassador (race 10), for 2-year-olds, are carded at six furlongs. The Lady Fog Horn (race 9), for fillies and mares, and the Unreachable Star (race 11), for 3-year-olds and up, will be contested at 1 1/16 miles.

Unbridled Beast might have some vulnerability in the Unreachable Star. This 3-year-old gelding has only recently ascended into stakes ranks, and while he has reeled off four straight wins, including an easy victory Sept. 16 in the Gus Grissom Stakes over similar competition, only his last two starts come close to standing out in this field. Rocky Rush and Redskiesatnight, who both come out of a turf stakes race, could mount a serious challenge.

Betsdownletsride does look especially formidable in the Crown Ambassador. A gelding by Sangaree trained by Cipriano Contreras, Betsdownletsride is 3 for 3, and after his debut win he defeated open allowance horses and won the Hillsdale Stakes, a less-restricted race for Indiana-breds than the Crown Ambassador. He has speed and the rail and can sit behind dueling rivals if the speed drawn to his outside goes hard to the front.

Expect Indy, a 7-year-old trained by Contreras, is an eight-time winner at Indiana Grand, where she has banked nearly $500,000, winning statebred-restricted stakes both short and long. Her sprint ability might have declined slightly with age, but last out, in the 1 1/16-mile Richmond Stakes, Expect Indy made short work of a field similar to the one she meets Wednesday. Pretty Assets is the choice to run into the exacta and provide, perhaps, just a touch of value.

Hungarian Princess was a fairly generous 2-1 when she romped Sept. 30 in the City of Anderson Stakes, but her odds-on favoritism in the Indiana Stallion Fillies might tempt one to play against her Wednesday. Hungarian Princess as of press time Monday showed no workouts since the Sept. 30 City of Anderson, and in her previous start had raced far less effectively. Granted, that was an open allowance race won by Coach, who captured the Rags to Riches Stakes on Sunday at Churchill Downs, but even between that Sept. 15 race and the City of Anderson, Hungarian Princess was given a workout by trainer Kim Hammond.

Amazing Gal could post an upset. She scored a breakout victory in her most recent start, and while that was a two-turn turf race, Amazing Gal raced for the first time in blinkers, and perhaps it was the equipment change as much as the surface and distance that produced the improved performance.

First post for this appealing 12-race card (race 12 is for Quarter Horses) is 2:05 p.m. Eastern. There’s a slight chance of showers during the afternoon.