The $100,000 Weather Vane Stakes will take center stage Saturday at Laurel Park, with promising filly Maida tabbed as the 2-1 morning-line favorite in her first stakes appearance. The six-furlong event for 3-year-old fillies has drawn a competitive field, but much of the attention will be on the lightly raced daughter of Improbable.

Trained by Brittany Russell for Goodfellas LLC, Maida has made only three career starts, winning two of them while showcasing plenty of early speed. After breaking her maiden at Laurel in June, she followed up with an impressive allowance victory at Delaware Park, earning strong speed figures in both. She enters the Weather Vane off that performance and will be looking to extend her winning streak against tougher company.

Maida’s maiden score came following a bland debut outing – and with the addition of blinkers.

“When she did what she did the next time, and then went on to win the race at Delaware, that was sort of what I expected of her,” Russell added. “She’s acted like she’s something good from the beginning.”

Russell also saddles Conquerthosewecan, a three-time winner who has captured two of her last three outings with sharp efforts when forwardly placed. Russell’s husband Sheldon Russell, who has ridden both Maida and Conquerthosewecan, lands on the former, so Jevian Toledo will ride Conquerthosewecan.

“She’s been good, too,” Russell said of the homebred owned by Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds. “Another one that we’ve always thought a lot of.”

The field also includes multiple stakes winner G W’s Girl, who has competed against graded competition for trainer Greg Compton. The Munnings filly won three of her first four but is winless in her last three – two versus graded rivals – and most recently was a well-beaten third in the Tyson Gilpin at Colonial Downs.

“I thought she was sitting in a really good spot,” Compton said. “I thought, turning for home, she looked loaded. [Jockey Jaime Rodriguez] said she hesitated and didn’t want to go through the hole [on the rail]. Maybe if we [went] around, it would have been a different outcome. Jaime said he felt like if she had gone through the hole, she’d have been right there with the winner.”

Rodriguez has the return mount. G W’s Girl is 4-1 on the morning line.

Social Fortress (10-1) returns for her first start since October of last year when third – by 15 lengths – in the Grade 1 Frizette at Aqueduct. That race went to Scottish Lassie, the favorite in Saturday’s Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx. Prior, Social Fortress had won her first two starts, including the Sorority at Monmouth Park, by a combined 18 lengths.

Jorge Ruiz will ride for new trainer Guadalupe Preciado.

Longshots Safe Trust (30-1) and Burner Account (20-1) round out the field, with Volleyballprincess and Endorse expected to scratch.

Post time for the Weather Vane Stakes, carded as Race 8, is 3:45 p.m. ET.