NEW YORK – Keeneland’s Grade 2, $250,000 Lexus Raven Run Stakes is the only graded event on Saturday’s stakes schedule. Otherwise, it’s statebred day, with the Empire Showcase at Belmont; the $100,000 California Flag as the headliner at Santa Anita; and the Maryland Million program at Laurel. Laurel management, in particular, deserves a tip of the hat for producing a card with field sizes of 9, 16, 14, 13, 14, 15, 12, 16, 11, 12, and 10. That’s quite a feat these days.

Raven Run Stakes

Belmont Park | Race 4 | Post Time 2:34 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs 

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Race 3:
Frost Wise (#4)

The Pace Projector is predicting that she will be on the lead in a situation favoring the front-runner.

Has contested a fast pace (indicated by red color-coding in the PPs) in three of her last four starts.

DRF Formulator Fact: Over the past five years, Michael Dilger is 10 for 27 (37 percent, $6.81 ROI) with last-out maiden winners on the dirt.

4-1 on ML

Belmont Park | Race 9 | Post Time 5:19 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs

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Mo Town
Trainer: Anthony Dutrow
Last race: Oct. 12, 8th
Finish: 1^st by 6 ½
Beyer: 100
Last year's Remsen winner, he has been one of the more notable busts of the 2017 3-year-old crop, but he may have found a new home on grass following blowout score in turf debut with a 100 Beyer.

Race 6
Chasindamoney (#3)
Was off slowly and green through the early stages of his debut.
Is bred to be a nice horse since his dam is a half-sister to turf millionaire Lubash.
DRF Formulator Fact: Over the past five years, Linda Rice is 10 for 27 (37 percent, $3.12 ROI) when adding blinkers with second-time starting maidens.
8-1 on morning line

UNAPOLOGETIC
Trainer: Bill Spawr
Last race: Oct. 15, 1st
Finish: 4th by 2
Beyer: 92
This N2X turf veteran got stuck on the inside, blocked from five-sixteenth to eighth pole,  and was one-paced late. Nine furlongs was perhaps too short, follow at a longer distance.

SUMMER’S INDY
Trainer: Phil D’Amato
Last race: Oct. 15, 3rd
Finish: 2nd by 3 1/4
Beyer: 72

TimeformUS Speed Figure report for stakes races for week ending Oct. 15, 2017

Woodbine

Grade 1 Canadian International S
1/2 150
1m 138
Fin 132
Top 3: Bullards Alley 132, Oscar Nominated 116, Flamboyant 115
Note: All turf stakes at Woodbine run on a soft course this week; 10 3/4-length win was second largest margin of victory in a Grade 1 race this year (Paradise Woods, Santa Anita Oaks) – largest on turf; winner had lost 15 consecutive races

Oct. 14

Belmont
Futurity (race 8)

Belmont | Race 8 | Post Time 4:46 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs

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