Full Field of Twelve Set for Long Distance $200,000 Waya Stakes

Chad Brown will saddle three fillies in the race including the favorite, Danza Cavallo (FR), at odds of 3-1 on the morning line. A four-year-old daughter of Sunday Break (JPN), she has won four of her fourteen starts and will be trying to earn her first graded stakes victory. She returned in April at Keeneland off of a five-month layoff to notch her first North American victory and was fifth in the Gamely Stakes (G1) last time out. Irad Ortiz, Jr. will be aboard and they will break from the outside post.

Queen's Parade trying for first stakes win

Second choice at 4-1 on the morning line is Queen’s Parade for trainer Claude McGaughey, III. A chestnut daughter of Giant’s Causeway, she was purchased for $200,000 as a two-year-old and has been on the board in seven of her ten starts. She is trying to earn her first black-type victory after a runner-up effort in the Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (G3) and will have John Velazquez in the irons from post position ten.

Kitten's Point going for third win of the year

Also in the field at morning line odds of 6-1 is Kitten’s Point for trainer Graham Motion. A five-year-old daughter of Kitten’s Joy bred and owned by George Strawbridge Jr.’s Augustin Stables, she has won five of her sixteen starts and is a multiple graded stakes winner. She has won two of her five starts this year and comes out of a third-place finish at Delaware Park. Edgar Prado will be aboard and they are scheduled to break from post eleven.