After placing in two Grade 1 races at Saratoga, Maryland-bred Post Time returns to Laurel Park for Saturday’s $100,000 Polynesian for 3-year-olds and up at a one-turn mile.

The winner of Laurel’s Grade 3 General George on Feb. 17 and Aqueduct’s Grade 2 Carter on April 6, Post Time rallied for second in Saratoga’s Metropolitan Mile before finishing third in last month’s Whitney. The Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile remains under consideration for the 4-year-old Frosted colt, who campaigns for Mrs. Ellen Charles’s Hillwood Stable.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Lady Mary appears to have found a soft landing spot in which to make her North American debut when she faces 10 rivals in Saturday’s Grade 3, $350,000 Jockey Club Oaks Invitational at Aqueduct.

A glut of turf stakes, many with more money and prestige than this one, has left the Jockey Club Oaks a bulky field of 11 but only one stakes winner, and that runner, Caldwell Luvs Gold, won those stakes on dirt against New York-breds.

Closethegame Sugar and Skelly are coming off runner-up efforts in Grade 1 sprints at Del Mar and Saratoga, respectively. On Saturday, they meet at Churchill Downs for the $300,000 Louisville Thoroughbred Society Stakes at six furlongs.

Last year, Auguste Rodin was 3 when he won his fourth Group 1 race in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown Racecourse in Ireland. Auguste Rodin added a fifth top-level win in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita two months later in his next start.

On Saturday, Economics and Los Angeles, two exceptional 3-year-olds, start against older horses for the first time in the $1.37 million Irish Champion Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf.

The hard-knocking Louisiana-bred Free Like a Girl’s popularity grew when she appeared at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby weekend and gamely chased home a champion. The mare returns looking to earn her first career graded stakes win, and push her already-sizeable bankroll past $2 million, in Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 Locust Grove Stakes, for fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles.

Although he is a sprinter in his first route, even though he is an allowance runner in his first stakes, and despite finishing last in his most recent start, Man O Rose looks formidable in the $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes on Saturday at Los Alamitos.

Lone speed always commands respect, and Man O Rose could be loose on the lead when he goes long in the stakes for older statebreds. After winning 6 of 11 sprints, Man O Rose will test his stamina at one mile in the E.B. Johnston for California-breds.

A three-race winning streak from January to June has left Pattys Saint as the nation’s leading Quarter Horse older filly or mare. She can all but clinch the title of 2024 champion aged mare with a win in the $125,000 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap on Saturday evening at Los Alamitos.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Charlie Appleby has a Godolphin runner for each of the Grade 1 2-year-old stakes on the Woodbine Mile undercard – Al Qudra in the Summer and the filly Mountain Breeze in the Natalma.

The $500,000 events are Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re in qualifiers. Appleby swept both one-mile turf routes in 2021 and has won each race twice for Godolphin.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Patches O’Houlihan will shoot for his third win in a row while attempting to capture the Grade 3, $150,000 Vigil for the second year in a row on Saturday’s Woodbine Mile undercard.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Canadian Horses of the Year Moira and Fev Rover will renew their rivalry on the Woodbine Mile undercard Saturday in the Grade 1, $750,000 E.P. Taylor, a 1 1/4-mile turf route with a stellar six-horse field of fillies and mares.