Trainer Peter Miller has run two horses in his career at Laurel Park but is taking aim at three of Saturday’s five $100,000 stakes. Miller finished second with his first two Laurel starters on Feb. 16 when Spiced Perfection missed by a head to Late Night Pow Wow in the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie and Gray Magician was runner-up to Alwaysmining in the Miracle Wood. On Saturday, Miller will send out Del Mar Futurity winner Nucky in the Heft Stakes and solid favorite Threefiveindia in the Dave’s Friend. His third entrant, Major Cabbie, has been rerouted to the Native Dancer after going to his nose at the start of last Saturday’s Queens County Stakes at Aqueduct, unseating his rider as the 6-5 favorite. He galloped with the field early and was caught by an outrider along the outer rail nearing the far turn. He will likely be the second or third betting choice to Monongahela in the 1 1/8-mile Native Dancer. “He didn’t do much running in New York, so we’re going to wheel him back,” Miller said. The Saturday stakes are surrounded by two allowances and an optional claimer on a nine-race card. The only claiming contest is the first, which goes at 12:25 p.m. Nucky lit up the board to the tune of $72 in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity. It should be noted that was the race in which 1-2 favorite Eight Rings ducked inward leaving the backstretch chute, bumping Storm the Court. Both horses lost their riders. Eight Rings returned to win the Grade 1 American Pharoah and Storm the Court went on to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Off his Futurity victory, Nucky was sent off at 16-1 in the Sept. 27 American Pharoah but finished eighth and came out of the race with a splint problem. “We backed off him and fired the splint, and he seems to have come back fine and is training great,” Miller said. Nucky, 2 for 6, is the only graded stakes winner in the seven-furlong Heft, but faces some promising runners in Monday Morning Qb, Hopeful Treasure, and the Claudio Gonzalez-trained duo of Lebda and Romanoff. Lebda finished third to Dennis’ Moment in the Iroquois Stakes at Churchill Downs in September. He was purchased earlier this month by Euro Stable for $100,000 out of the Joseph Besecker dispersal and returned to Gonzalez’s stable. Monday Morning Qb, who is trained by Butch Reid, has the high Beyer Speed Figure in the field, an 85 in his 2 1/4-length maiden win at Parx Racing last time out. Hopeful Treasure earned a second-best 84 for trainer Michael Pino in a Laurel optional-starter victory. In the Heft’s sister race, the Gin Talking, Cofactor will put a three-race winning streak on the line against nine rivals. Trained by Kelly Breen, Cofactor has won a Monmouth maiden race, a Keeneland optional claimer, and the Smart Halo Stakes at Laurel in succession since finishing third in her debut. To keep her steak alive, Cofactor will have to overcome post 1, which can be tricky at Laurel. Her chief rivals include Precious, who is 2 for 2, including a win in the Pennsylvania-bred Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies. She is trained by John Servis, who won the 2016 Gin Talking with Ms Locust Point and the 2015 running with Cathryn Sophia. Threefiveindia, who runs in the six-furlong Dave’s Friend, and Native Dancer favorite Monongahela have found new life since changing barns. Threefiveindia had lost nine straight races for Chad Brown and Phil D’Amato before Miller claimed him for $40,000 at Los Alamitos in September. He has since galloped to a pair of optional-claiming victories, earning a 98 Beyer last time out. The biggest threat to Threefiveindia is Home Run Maker, who will be making his first start since June for Jeremiah Englehart. Home Run Maker reeled off three straight wins earlier this year at Laurel, then failed to hit the board in three starts before going to the sidelines. Home Run Maker has worked six times since Nov. 10. Monongahela, who was privately purchased by Michael Dubb and partners and transferred to Jason Servis for his 2019 campaign, has won two of his last four starts since Servis changed his running style and began putting him into his races earlier. He captured the Grade 3 Iselin at Monmouth in June and the Swatara at Penn National on Thanksgiving Eve in his most recent effort, earning a 104 Beyer. Alwaysmining, who knocked out six straight wins in Maryland before finishing 11th in the Preakness, makes his second start off a layoff in the Native Dancer. He ran well in the Maryland-restricted Bender Memorial going six furlongs in his comeback but flattened out late and finished fifth, beaten two lengths. That race should set him up nicely for Saturday. The final stakes of the day is the Willa On the Move, a six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares. Majestic Reason and Las Setas finished second and fifth last time out in the Maryland-restricted Politely but have upside Saturday. Las Setas, making her first start in more than six months and first against older rivals, set the pace in the six-furlong Politely but weakened in the final furlong. She should benefit from the exercise. Majestic Reason prompted Las Setas early but was shuffled back to last in the five-horse field when two horses made mid-race moves. She tried hard down the lane but was no match for Anna’s Bandit, who was winning her sixth consecutive race. Last True Love is in good form for trainer Flint Stites, enters off a win in the Mahoning Valley Distaff, and will likely be a better price than the top pair.