OZONE PARK, N.Y. – In two of the last three years, trainer Chad Brown has come within a nose of winning the Remsen Stakes with horses who would turn into Grade 1 stakes winners at 3. In Saturday’s 111th renewal of the Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen, Brown has two runners – Keewaydin and Aviator Gui – among the seven juveniles entered in the 1 1/8-mile race. It remains to be seen if either are as talented as Sierra Leone or Zandon, nose losers of the Remsen in their 2-year-old seasons but winners of the Grade 1 Blue Grass and, in the case of Sierra Leone, the Breeders’ Cup Classic, at 3. Keewaydin looks to be the faster of Brown’s pair as he comes out of a 1 3/4-length maiden win going seven furlongs on Oct. 12 at Aqueduct. That followed a close third-place finish in a six-furlong maiden race at Saratoga on Travers Day (Aug. 24) that proved quite productive. The winner, Tip Top Thomas, finished second in the Grade 1 Champagne. Rookie Card, the runner-up, has since come back to win a maiden by five lengths. Sovereignty, fourth in that Aug. 24 race, two starts later won the Grade 3 Street Sense Stakes. Keewaydin is by Instagrand, a one-turn stakes winner who twice was unsuccessful stretching out to 1 1/8 miles. Keewaydin is out of an unraced mare who has produced modestly accomplished sprinters. “The pedigree would certainly look a bit sprint [-oriented] top and bottom, but he’s a good-sized, physically imposing horse, so that gives you some confidence that he’s not limited in distance,” Brown said. “And, how he trains.” :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Aviator Gui, a son of Uncle Mo, rallied from last in a five-horse field to win an off-the-turf maiden race going one mile here Sept. 28. The second-, third-, and fourth-place finishers from that race each came back to win their next starts, all with career-best Beyer Speed Figures. Aviator Gui, meanwhile, finished fourth with a wide trip in the Awad Stakes on turf. “It’s whether he can step up on dirt. He’ll have no trouble at a mile and an eighth,” Brown said. Poster is trying dirt for the first time after winning his first two starts on turf. His connections, Godolphin Racing and trainer Eoin Harty, won last weekend’s Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill with a horse, First Resort, moving from turf to dirt though that horse had prior success on dirt. Harty believes Poster should not have a problem with dirt or the 1 1/8-mile distance. He said the horse has matured with racing. “He has certainly grown up a lot mentally, he’s a lot more focused in the mornings,” Harty said. “He was just young and dumb early on in his career. He’s a real looker too, all the girls love him. He’s the Fabio of racehorses.” The Maryland-based Studlydoright is already a multiple stakes winner in New York, having won the Tremont in June and the Nashua, a one-turn-mile race, at Aqueduct in November. This will be his first start around two turns, and trainer John Robb has said he’s looking forward to stretching the son of Nyquist out in distance. Tux, a debut winner going 6 1/2 furlongs here Nov. 9, Surfisde Moon, and Gun Trader complete the field. The Remsen offers qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby on a 10-5-3-2-1 scale. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.