While Saturday may be Kentucky Derby Day to some, the afternoon has significance as well in the Standardbred industry. Notably, three divisions of Pennsylvania Sire Stakes races are on the card at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, with last year's champion Louprint's much-anticipated sophomore debut occurring in one of three $41,121 divisions of the Bye Bye Byrd for sophomore colt and gelding pacers. Trainer Brian Brown has no illusions, yet remains confident that his Wild Bill Wyatt can at least be competitive against Louprint and perhaps any other horse in this division. Wild Bill Wyatt landed post three in Saturday's ninth race and second Sire Stakes division, while the champion Louprint starts from post eight. "I'm not saying we can go with Louprint right now," Brown said quite frankly. "But my horse has improved an awful lot since last year and he's getting better every week." Last year Wild Bill Wyatt went winless in seven starts, though he did hit the board in five of those races. Things have been dramatically different in 2025 as the altered son of Sweet Lou has won both starts at The Meadows in preparation for his initial stakes engagement and has not only gained a new speed record but has displayed a racing style not accessible to him as a freshman. "You couldn't put him on the front-end at all last year," said Brown. "This year he's just fine." A 1:52 1/5 victory on April 24 at The Meadows is proof positive that Wild Bill Wyatt is going in the right direction, and that's a good thing for Brown, who despite last year's disappointment, saw much potential. "His attitude has gotten better, and he's learned what he's supposed to do out there," said Brown, categorizing the changes that have him more than optimistic this week and throughout the sophomore stakes season. "I raced his brother," Brown said. "He had speed but a bad attitude." While Wild Bill Wyatt was winless last year, the same can't be said for Louprint, who won seven of his 10 starts as a freshman, completing the season with a victory in the Breeders Crown that propelled him to the Dan Patch Award as tops in the 2-year-old male pacing division. Louprint has had two qualifiers in preparation, with the last coming on April 22 at The Meadows, a 1:52 2/5 mile cut out with pilot Ronnie Wrenn Jr. coaxing him through a 27 1/5 final quarter. A 1:48 4/5 winner at The Red Mile as a freshman, Louprint will be a heavy favorite in this division. The Burke-trained Railroad Station (post one) has an inside track in the first Sire Stakes division (race eight). Also by Sweet Lou, Railroad Station finished on the board in 10 of his 14 starts as a freshman but didn't get the luck of the draw in major year-end contests, drawing post 10 in the Breeders Crown and post eight in the Governor's Cup. ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter The third $41,121 division goes as race 10 on Saturday's 14-race Meadows program that offers an early 11:30 a.m. start, and includes last year's Pennsylvania Sire Stakes final champion Papi's Rocket (post six), one of two in the field for the sport's leading trainer Ron Burke. Go Go Grasshopper, second in that Sire Stakes championship a year ago, makes his sophomore debut in this division from post five following three qualifiers for trainer Joe Bongiorno. Bobby Weiss champion Charge Me Up (post four) ships west and takes a big step up in class but has been rock solid this year for trainer Nick DeVita. In addition to the first leg of the Sire Stakes, The Meadows Saturday program is supported by five $20,000 divisions of the Pennsylvania Stallion Series, and trainer Brown has a pair among the entries that are moving in the right direction. "I think he's going to be a nice racehorse," said Brown of Goodbye Stranger (post four) from the third race Stallion Series split. "He had a chip in a knee last year; that's why he didn't race." Goodbye Stranger, a colt from the first crop of Tall Dark Stranger, won for the first time in just his second start at Harrah's Hoosier Park on April 19. The colt has some impressive bloodlines as just the third foal from the $1 million winner Solar Sister. Damn The Torpedos is another potential "nice horse" for Brown. The Always B Miki-sired gelding drew post two in Saturday's fifth race and comes off a 1:54 victory on April 24 over the same surface. Brown is putting the finishing work on many of his 2-year-olds at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, where he sets up shop. In addition to a solid group of Ohio-sired horses, he has a couple of colts with Grand Circuit aspirations. "I have a Captaintreacherous colt that Doc Egloff thought would be in my price range and was a nice horse. He was absolutely right," said Brown, referring to Jackaroo, a colt purchased for $52,000 at the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale. "I've got a Sweet Lou colt named Blue Indigo that's a brother to that nice filly Joe Holloway raced, Blue Pacific," said Brown. Blue Indigo is the fourth foal and first colt from the dam Miss Jones and was a $70,000 Harrisburg purchase last fall.