Mission of Joy headlines Saturday’s Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs and will face a field including last out stakes winnter Thirty Thou Kelvin.
Winless in five previous turf tries, Thirty Thou Kelvin picked a good spot for her breakthrough win: Saturday’s Christiana Stakes at Delaware Park.
Grade 3 Delaware Oaks winner Midnight Stroll will hunt a second consecutive graded stakes win in Friday’s G3 Charles Town Oaks.
El Kabeir won for the first time since March today, taking the City of Laurel Stakes today at Laurel Park in his second start off a layoff.