LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Two recent winners – one on a class drop, and one on class raise – will go postward as top contenders Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Louisville Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Spanish Jazz figures to be tough to handle when he runs in a first-level allowance race at Northlands Park Saturday. The six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew six horses and has been slotted as the second of eight races carded. Post time for the first race is 1 p.m. Mountain.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Rockin Cherokee figures to feast on what will likely be a hotly contested pace in a $15,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up at Hastings Saturday. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint drew eight horses and goes as race 6 on the seven-race card, which begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific.

Missy Rules and Ile St. Molly, who both stretched out from sprints to win divisions of the one-mile Our Mims Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on opening day at Delaware Park, will be nominated to the $75,000 Go for Wand Stakes on June 15.

The mile-and-70-yard Go for Wand is the local prep for the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks at 1 1/16 miles on July 13.

Making her first start beyond 6 1/2 furlongs, Missy Rules posted a 3 1/2-length triumph in the first division.  Her time of 1:38.88 for the two-turn mile translated into a 65 Beyer Speed Figure. She is now 3 for 4 at Delaware.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Strut the Course, a smart winner of her 2013 debut at seven furlongs, will look to punch her ticket to the June 9 Woodbine Oaks with a strong performance here in Saturday’s $125,000 Lady Angela.

“I liked the way she won; she was supposed to win it like that,” Barbara Minshall, who conditions the homebred Strut the Course for John Unger, said of the filly’s 5 1/4-length win over first-level restricted allowance company here May 5.

Little Polka Dot has her work cut out for her as the 5-2 morning line favorite in Saturday night’s $50,000 Opelousas Stakes at Evangeline Downs. The one-mile turf race for fillies and mares drew a field of nine, seven of whom come off first- or second-place performances on the grass.

Saturday’s featured $60,000 Wild Rose, a 1 1/16-mile event for fillies and mares at Prairie Meadows, brings together five runners all looking for a breakthrough versus stakes-level competition.

The Wild Rose is the local prep race for the $100,000 Iowa Distaff, one of six open stakes races comprising the Iowa Festival of Racing on June 28-29.

Maude S, an Arlington shipper trained by Jim DiVito, and Itsabeautifulthing, a relatively new member of Donnie K. Von Hemel’s Churchill Downs-based string, are expected to vie for favoritism Saturday and both are late-rallying mares.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The big chestnut Irish Mission, last year’s Canadian champion 3-year-old filly and champion turf female, returns to Woodbine on Saturday in the $200,000 Nassau, the first turf stakes of the meet.

Irish Mission won last year’s Woodbine Oaks and was a closing second over a speed-favoring Polytrack in the Queen’s Plate. She beat the boys in the final leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Breeders’ Stakes on grass.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Dramatic $500,000 purse cuts for the Grade 1 Canadian International and Grade 1 E.P. Taylor, both among Woodbine’s showpiece events, have been announced with the release of the second part of Woodbine’s stakes schedule for the 2013 meeting.

The first part, consisting of 37 stakes running through Queen’s Plate Day, July 7, was announced at the outset of the meeting.

Rosie Napravnik will seek to join Julie Krone as the only female jockeys to have won the Belmont Stakes. She will ride Code West in the Belmont on June 8, trainer Bob Baffert said Thursday.

Napravnik rode Code West to a runaway victory against older allowance horses Saturday at Pimlico in the race following the Preakness.

Napravnik became available for the Belmont when the connections of Mylute decided Wednesday night to skip the race. Napravnik rode Mylute in the first two legs of the Triple Crown, including a third-place finish in the Preakness.