The Grade III $200,000 Modesty Handicap is part of Million Preview Day July 12 in Chicago which features four graded stakes races on the turf.
Turf racing will take center stage on Tuesday at Parx Racing with the $200,000 Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap. The Grade 3 event will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf course and has drawn a field of eight fillies and mares.
We Miss Artie will lead a mixed field of 15 starters going to the gate on Sunday for the 155th running of the $1 million Queen's Plate Stakes at Woodbine.
The $400,000, Grade III Belmont Sprint Championship features a salty bunch of speedsters going seven furlongs on the main track July 5 as part of the inaugural Stars & Stripes Racing Festival in New York.
Up and coming three-year-olds will take center stage in the $200,000 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park on Saturday. The Grade 3 contest is run at a mile and a sixteenth and serves as a key prep for the sophomore stakes at Saratoga later in the summer.
While their classic distance counterparts will take center stage on Saturday in the Mother Goose Stakes (G1), sophomore sprinters will shine in Sunday’s $150,000 Victory Ride Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park. A field of seven fillies will go to post in the six and a half furlong contest.
The June 28 Corn Husker Handicap at Prairie Meadows features a field of eight hard-knocking veterans lined up to go a mile and an eighth on the main track in the $300,000 Grade III race for three year-olds and up.
Turf racing will take center stage on Sunday at Woodbine Racecourse in the $200,000 King Edward Stakes (G2), a mile contest on the grass for three-year-olds and upward. The race has attracted a loaded field of eight with several prominent stakes winners in the mix.
A full field of twelve is scheduled to compete in Saturday's $100,000 Donald Levine Memorial Handicap, a seven-furlong contest for three-year-olds and up at Parx Racing. The 121 pound highweight is Traffic Light, a locally-based five-year-old gelding.
The Woodbine Oaks for fillies often produces a contender for the Queen's Plate, the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.
