SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Three of the last four champion 3-year-old females share one thing in common: They won the Alabama Stakes during the summer meeting at Saratoga Race Course.
On Saturday, seven runners from the division, led by slight favorite Grace Hall, will try to claim the $600,000 Grade I stakes in this year’s 114-mile edition.
Grace Hall, who will be ridden by Javier Castellano, returns to the scene of her first graded stakes victory, last year’s Spinaway.
Questing is a strong threat to Grace Hall.
Also Saturday, the $600,000 Sword Dancer Invitational, run at 112 miles on the turf, has drawn a field of nine including pre-race favorite Turbo Compressor, winner of the United Nations Handicap in his last start for trainer Todd Pletcher.
