SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Chad Brown’s quartet of 3-year-old fillies entered for turf in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Lake Placid Stakes at Saratoga have combined to win three stakes this year. While that’s not surprising, it is noteworthy that none of those horses were favored when they won.

As was the case in the Grade 3 Lake George here July 21 – when Brown-runners finished 1-2-4-5 topped by 5-1 winner Surge Capacity – Brown has four of the eight runners entered for turf in the Lake Placid, scheduled for 1 1/16 miles. So, who might the value of the Brown quartet be Saturday?

Millionaire Field Pass is the 2-1 morning line favorite in Saturday’s Find Stakes for 3-year-olds and upward at Laurel Park. The Find is one of two $75,000 stakes for statebred or sired performers scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the turf along with the All Brandy for fillies and mares.

Trained by Michael Maker, Field Pass has been a consistent performer. Second in the Grade 3 With Anticipation at Saratoga at 2, he enjoyed his best season the following year with Grade 3 victories at Turfway, Keeneland, and Woodbine.

R Adios Jersey will be racing without blinkers for the first time in the $65,000 Sheer Drama, which is part of the Rainbow 6 jackpot sequence that will have a mandatory payout Saturday at Gulfstream Park. The estimated pool is $1.5 million.

The Rainbow 6 has not been solved over the last 20 cards. The pool heading into Saturday's card is $338,577, according to a press release from Gulfstream. 

The Rainbow 6, which is a 20-cent bet, will cover races 5-10 on Saturday.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Apart from one curious exception, Del Mar Oaks winners can come from anywhere – shippers from New York, invaders from Europe, and allowance and stakes runners from California.

But when an eclectic, mostly local field of 3-year-old fillies run a mile and one-eighth on turf Saturday in the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Oaks, the likely favorite will aim for an unlikely feat. Anisette, impressive recent winner of the Grade 2 San Clemente at Del Mar, faces nine rivals and a historical challenge – San Clemente winners almost never repeat in the Del Mar Oaks.

Provost is the runner to beat in Saturday’s feature at Emerald Downs. The 6-year-old son of Street Boss, trained by Justin Evans, meets a field of five other $10,000 claimers in the one-mile race.

“I think he’s very versatile and can go either sprint or route,” Evans said. “Ideally he can set his own pace and make things happen on the front end.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Saturday’s Grade 2 King Edward is a prep for next month’s Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, and Shirl’s Speight needs to get a race under his girth more than any other horse in the one-mile turf event to set him up for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup qualifier.

Third-year trainer Lindsay Schultz stands an upset chance to post her first graded stakes win when she sends Whelen Springs out Saturday in the Grade 3, $250,000 Philip H. Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Schultz’s charge must beat likely odds-on favorite Zozos, a 4-year-old Munnings colt who also seeks his first graded win. Zozos’s trainer, Brad Cox, won his first graded race in 2014 and has 22 such victories in 2023.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Surge Capacity and Tax Implications, who ran one-two in the Grade 3 Lake George here on July 31, along with Aspray and Prerequisite give trainer Chad Brown four of the eight runners entered for turf in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Lake Placid Stakes over 1 1/16 miles.

Aspray won the Hilltop at Pimlico before finishing fourth in the Belmont Oaks. Prerequisite ran second in the Belmont Oaks after winning the Grade 2 Wonder Again.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After just missing pulling off a 10-1 upset in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks here on July 22, Sacred Wish will come back for another upset bid when she meets Wet Paint and eight others in Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/4 miles.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Arcangelo on Wednesday had his fifth and final workout in between his Belmont Stakes victory on June 10 and the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Aug. 26, breezing five furlongs in 1:01.56 over Saratoga’s main track.