On Saturday at Arlington Park, some of the best grass fillies and mares will compete in the 25th running of the $750,000 Beverly D. Stakes. The Grade 1 event will be run at a mile and three-sixteenths on the turf and has drawn a field of eleven.
Stephanie’s Kitten has been installed as the 7-2 morning line favorite in the competitive field for trainer Chad Brown. The five-year-old homebred daughter of Kitten’s Joy will have Frankie Dettori aboard carrying the red and white silks of Ken and Sarah Ramsey. A multiple graded stakes winner, Stephanie’s Kitten broke her maiden on the Arlington turf course as a juvenile before going on to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Chad Brown will also send out Alterite (FR) with Javier Castellano aboard at odds of 4-1 on the morning line. The French-bred daughter of Literato (FR) will try to improve off of an eighth-place finish in the Diana (G1) in her only other start this year. Last year, the bay filly won her United States debut in the Garden City (G1) and was third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. She will break from post position nine.
Also in the field is Emollient, 5-1 on the morning line for trainer Bill Mott. Owned and bred by Juddmonte Farms, Inc., the four-year-old daughter of Empire Maker will have Joel Rosario back aboard following a ninth-place finish in the Diana (G1). A Grade 1 winner on both turf and synthetics, she is going for her sixth career win and first victory of the year. She is scheduled to break from post position four.
The field is set for the $1 million Haskell, where Nyquist will be trying to re-stake his claim as the top three-year-old in the country.
On Sunday at Monmouth Park, the featured race is the $300,000 United Nations Stakes. Scheduled to be run at a mile and three-eighths on the turf, the Grade 1 event has drawn a field of ten colts and geldings.
On Sunday at Monmouth Park, the featured race is the $150,000 Pegasus Stakes, a key prep race for the Haskell Invitational (G1). The Grade 3 event will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth and has drawn a field of seven three-year-olds.
With five grade 1 races and a grade 2, the undercard for the June 11 Belmont stakes could be the best single day of racing on the calendar outside of the Breeders’ Cup.
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