NEW YORK – It’s the biggest racing day of the year at Penn National on Saturday, with the Grade 2, $500,000 Penn Mile topping a card that includes seven other stakes. Santa Anita has a graded stakes doubleheader consisting of the Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Maria and the Grade 3, $150,000 Honeymoon. There are two other graded events Saturday – the Grade 3, $200,000 Pennine Ridge at Belmont and the Grade 3, $100,000 Arlington Matron at Arlington. Mighty Beau Stakes This is the supporting feature on the evening card at Churchill Downs, and though it’s not a graded race, the quality of its field says it’s at least a Grade 3, if not higher. Among the most prominent entrants are Bobby’s Wicked One, the winner of the Grade 3 Commonwealth Stakes two starts back and second to the brilliant Met Mile-bound Mitole in the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes most recently. This race also lured Will Call, a rapidly gaining second in the Grade 2 Woodford last fall, who was simply too close early and too wide when off the board most recently in the Turf Sprint at Churchill; Extravagant Kid, a multiple stakes winner who was a terrific third in last fall’s Woodford after being part of a scorching pace; and the highly accomplished mare Morticia, who is facing much tougher males this time but is in sharp form. I wouldn’t be surprised if any of the above won, especially Bobby’s Wicked One. Bobby’s Wicked One might be making his turf debut, but he’s by Speightstown, a fine grass sire, and is out of a dam who won on turf. Moreover, Bobby’s Wicked One’s full sister, Abracadabra, won three times on turf, twice in turf sprints. Al Stall, the trainer of Bobby’s Wicked One, has excellent numbers with horses trying grass for the first time and in turf sprints, and his colt has met better on dirt. That said, Om is the one for me. Om has spent the vast majority of his career racing in longer turf races in Southern California, with occasional success. But I think he’s been a turf sprinter at heart all along, and now he’s finally getting the chance to do what he wants. Om has had a few isolated opportunities in turf sprints and ran well, most notably in a brutal nose loss in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, where his rider lost his whip late, and in a sharp third in the 2017 Eddie D. Om is also poised to take a step forward Saturday night. He recently returned from an 8 1/2-month absence in the Opening Verse Stakes and prompted the pace, contended to deep stretch, and was not abused late in an outing he should only benefit from. Honeymoon Stakes Maxim Rate, Hostess, and Lady Prancealot have knocked heads of late in the Senorita and Providencia stakes, which were two distinctly different types of events, and not only because the Senorita was a one-mile race and the Providencia was at nine furlongs. The pace in the Providencia, in which Hostess got up to win a three-way photo over Maxim Rate and Lady Prancealot, was honest. The pace in the Senorita was very slow, and Maxim Rate, who was right on top of that slow early pace, prevailed over Lady Prancealot, who seemed to hang late after making a big, wide move on the far turn. I expect this race to be similar to the Providencia. The pace promises to be stronger than in the Senorita, and the distance is the same 1 1/8 miles of the Providencia. And I’m looking for Hostess to get the money, just like in the Providencia. Not only was Hostess’s closing kick significantly compromised by the slow pace in the Senorita, she was also caught four wide on the first turn and raced in traffic on the far turn yet still finished willingly. Penn Mile A Thread of Blue was denied his third straight stakes win in the American Turf last time when caught late by a colt who has a real nose for the wire in Digital Age. A Thread of Blue figures to be a handful in this spot, but I’m going with Forty Under. Forty Under was the beaten favorite in the Woodhaven Stakes most recently, but that was off a 5 1/2-month layoff and on a deep turf course. He has every right to improve, and a duplicate of his win in the Pilgrim Stakes last fall might well be good enough.