Although Laurel has four $100,000 stakes on a card that might be run in snow, Santa Anita and Gulfstream have center stage Saturday when it comes to graded action with Grade 3 stakes doubleheaders at both venues. Santa Anita’s main events are the $200,000 La Canada and the $100,000 Las Cienegas. Unfortunately, rain is forecast from Friday night through the weekend and threatens to put a damper on the proceedings. Gulfstream’s stakes are the $150,000 Marshua’s River and the $100,000 Tropical Turf. Marshua’s River Stakes I’m Betty G and La Signare have the best class lines in this event, but I’m not sold on either. I’m Betty G competed in graded stakes two and three starts back, something few others in this field have done, and she won three straight before that, including stakes at Canterbury and Ellis Park. But even though she had some stretch trouble when dropped to an overnight stakes last time out at Fair Grounds, I’m Betty G’s form still looks like it is going in the wrong direction. As for La Signare, she beat the then very highly regarded Significant Form when she won the Grade 3 Wonder Again last June, but did so after establishing a clear, uncontested, and absolutely walking early lead. La Signare went from the lead to finish last in the subsequent Belmont Oaks and now makes her first start in six months. Valedictorian might not class up on paper to some others here, but she is my play. Valedictorian won two straight, including the All Along Stakes, before she competed in the Claiming Crown Tiara most recently, and she ran a big race, finishing second. Valedictorian did all the dirty work in the Tiara, keeping the 3-5 favorite Starship Jubilee, who won the Grade 2 Canadian two starts earlier, honest on the front end. Valedictorian wound up beating Starship Jubilee back to fourth, but after her early efforts, she couldn’t resist the late charge from the perfectly set up second choice Peru. Valedictorian doesn’t have to worry about keeping an odds-on favorite honest this time, and with a more favorable pace scenario, is taken to get the money. Say Florida Sandy Stakes This New York-bred event is the headliner at Aqueduct, and it’s a competitive race, in which betting value can be had. Gold for the King is an obvious win threat as all four of his last fast-track starts were sharp and include two blowout scores. Syndergaard will have his supporters, as his determined victory most recently in his first career start on the Aqueduct main track was his best performance since his nose loss in the 2016 edition of the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes. And Celtic Chaos has some appeal moving back in with statebreds off a gaining fourth in the Fall Highweight last time out. But Honor Up is the one I want. Honor Up has raced in career form since moving into the Michelle Nevin barn last fall, winning 2 of 3 starts for his new trainer and finishing a sharp second in the other. Honor Up always had the makings of a good colt, finishing a game second early in his career to Audible, who, of course, went on to win the Grade 1 Florida Derby and finish a good third in the Kentucky Derby. As for Honor Up, he’s most effective when he can settle and make one off-the-pace run, and there should be enough pace in this spot to allow him to employ that approach. Native Dancer Stakes This is one of the quartet of stakes at Laurel, and Rich Daddy’s near miss in the Claiming Crown Jewel most recently at Gulfstream makes him the one to beat. That said, Rich Daddy was perfectly set up pace-wise in that race, and the 97 Beyer Speed Figure he earned that day came in his final start as a 7-year-old and was the highest in his 57-race career. All of that raises the distinct possibility of a form regression. If I can go with Honor Up at Aqueduct, then I can go with Stan the Man here considering he is the only one to have beaten Honor Up since the latter’s barn switch. Stan the Man, overmatched in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile last time, is admittedly a question mark going this 1 1/16-mile distance. However, he figures to pull a great trip chasing the speedy Saratoga Jack, who habitually gets shaky down the stretch, and may inherit a stretch lead he may not relinquish.