Only four go in Temperence Hill

ELMONT, N.Y. – Thanks to a pair of supplemental nominations, Saturday’s co-feature, the $200,000 Temperence Hill Stakes at 1 5/8 miles on dirt, filled with four horses. It will go as the third race on the 10-race card, and show wagering will not be permitted.

V. E. Day, last year’s Travers winner, will seek to end a five-race losing streak in the Temperence Hill. Two starts back, V. E. Day finished second in the Grade 2 Brooklyn here at 1 1/2 miles and then came back to finish fifth behind Honor Code in the Whitney at Saratoga.

V. E. Day blew out four furlongs in 50 seconds over the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga on Wednesday.

His competition will include Tacticus, who won the Birdstone Stakes at Saratoga going 1 3/4 miles last out. The two supplemental nominees were Indycott, claimed for $50,000 by Danny Gargan out of a win Aug. 10, and Slim Shadey, who finished fourth, beaten 20 1/2 lengths, in last year’s Temperence Hill.