Turnback the Alarm, Awad the Friday features

Piggybacking on the Breeders’ Cup, Belmont Park will run both the Grade 3, $200,000 Turnback the Alarm and the $100,000 Awad on Friday. The Turnback the Alarm, a 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares, has drawn a field of nine. Favoritism likely will go to either Delightful Joy or Pangburn.

Delightful Joy, a 3-year-old trained by Chad Brown, has won two races in a row. She rallied from well back to defeat 10 rivals in the $100,000 Monmouth Oaks in her last start Aug. 22. Prior to that, she won a first-level allowance over older rivals at Belmont.

Pangburn won a second-level optional-claiming race at Saratoga in her first start after being transferred to trainer Tony Dutrow. She was seventh most recently in the Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx.

Stiffed also is a contender here for New Jersey-based trainer John Mazza. She traded decisions with Got Lucky at Monmouth Park this summer, and Got Lucky has since finished second in the Personal Ensign and won the Spinster. Got Lucky is scheduled to run Friday in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

The Awad, a one-mile turf race for 2-year-olds, has drawn 13 entrants, including two for the main track only.

Brown has entered both Converge and Eidmilaad. Converge rallied from far back to win his debut at Belmont on Sept. 19. Eidmilaad, a half-brother to 10-time stakes winner Rutherienne, was an impressive maiden winner at Saratoga but finished ninth as the favorite in the Grade 3 Pilgrim on Sept. 26.

Don’t Be So Salty, trained by Gary Contessa, is the only two-time winner in the field. He is 2 for 4, having won a maiden turf sprint at Saratoga and a no-conditions allowance at Presque Isle Downs.

Trainer Antonio Sano sends in Imperial Warrior from Florida. He won a Gulfstream Park turf sprint in his debut and most recently finished a close second going a mile on turf in the $75,000 Armed Forces Stakes on Oct. 3.