Grammy Girl will go for her third straight stakes victory in the Grade 3 Vagrancy on Sunday at Aqueduct. The consistent 5-year-old mare has been on a tear for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. and will enter the 6 1/2-furlong sprint with plenty of familiarity. A consistent allowance performer for most of her career, Grammy Girl shipped to Laurel Park last year and ended her 2025 season with a triumphant return to stakes company. Coming off a nine-day turnaround made little difference as she powered home to upset Takethemoneyhoney in the $100,000 Willa On The Move. A short turnaround was followed by a much longer layoff, but the winter break didn’t deter Joseph. In April, the trainer kept his mare in New York for her first graded stakes, and she quickly proved that she had not lost a step, powering home to win the Grade 3 Distaff by 1 1/2 lengths. “She’s obviously in good form and she ran well the last time off the layoff,” Joseph said. “Sometimes, when they get form and get a layoff, you never know how they’re going to come back. But she came back just as well.” For the first time in months, Grammy Girl will enter a start without significant questions to answer. She is a proven commodity in the Vagrancy, one of four graded stakes winners in the field of seven older fillies and mares, and should be a potent contender. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Joseph also entered Mystic Lake, who scratched from a statebred stakes at Gulfstream Park last weekend in favor of this race. The 11-time stakes winner will try to bounce back from a poor effort in the Grade 1 Madison at Keeneland last month, her worst race in more than a year. “She didn’t run,” Joseph said. “Her game is to be forwardly placed, on the lead or just there, and she was way out back. Obviously, the race came back fast, but she wasn’t in the spot to have a chance.” Kappa Kappa, a Pennsylvania-bred filly trained by Butch Reid, also skipped a statebred stakes at Parx Racing in favor of the Vagrancy. Last year, she pulled off a stunner in the Grade 2 Raven Run at Keeneland, dueling gamely to win at 27-1. “It looks like seven-eighths to a one-turn mile are the kinds of races we’re going to be concentrating on,” Reid said. “She’s trained up to it beautifully. We’ve got a series of works, and we couldn’t be asking her to do any better.” Praying also earned the score of her career at Keeneland last year, winning the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America before finishing seventh in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint for trainer Robert Medina. Like Mystic Lake, she is coming off a dull effort in the Madison. The four graded stakes winners could have their hands full with local contender With the Angels. The New York-bred filly keeps finding more for Linda Rice and earned a 93 Beyer Speed Figure when she romped in the $125,000 Correction in March. “She ran a big race that day,” Rice said. “I thought it was her best effort so far. We decided to give her a little extra time between races off that superb effort and we are ready to go this week.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.