| Colts and geldings, 3 and older, circle the paddock before race 8, a one-mile, seventy-yard starter allowance that preceded the Nursery Stakes. Indy Knight, 3, is at center. |
| The Cat Rules, 3, and jockey Josiah Hampshire Jr. head to the track for the eighth race. |
| Westward Go, 5, approaches the starting gate. |
| Louie’s Terra, a 5-year-old Pennsylvania-bred gelding ridden by Richard Monterrey, wins race 8. |
| Shellback enters the walking ring before the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes (race 9), a seven-furlong contest for Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old colts and geldings. |
| Stakes contenders El Rocco, left, and Zipatron arrive at the walking ring. |
| Turbo Speed (right) and Closing Vision (below) walk in the paddock before the Nursery Stakes. |
| Josiah Hampshire Jr. has the mount on Sunshine Jamie for the Nursery Stakes. |
| Turbo Speed (left), David Cora up, catches front-runner El Rocco, ridden by Kendrick Carmouche, in upper stretch. . . |
| . . . then passes him to win the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes by one and a half lengths. |
| After his second-place finish in the Nursery Stakes, Kendrick Carmouche heads to the jockeys’ room to get ready for race 10, the final competition of the day. |
| 5-year-old mare Stephen’s Reason enters the paddock before race 10, a claiming race for mares and fillies 3 years old and upward. |
| Foxy Chapeau, also 5, awaits the day’s last race. |
| Turner Falls, at 3 the youngest of the nine mares and fillies entered in the race, walks in the paddock. |
| 4-year-old Quiet Lee (#4) and her jockey, Samuel Bermudez, take part in the final post parade of the day, followed by 5-year-old Scarlet Legacy (#5), with Jermaine Burke. |
| The horses round the final turn and head for home: from left, Stephen’s Reason, Vesper, Foxy Chapeau, Emma’s Valentine, Lady Fendi and Scarlet Legacy. |
| Stephen’s Reason (#6), Kendrick Carmouche up, fights for the lead on her way to winning the tenth race. |
| Cause to Smile (#7) finishes second; Vesper (left) is third. Race 10 carried the lowest purse of the day--$18,000—and any one of the nine fillies and mares who ran in it could be claimed for $5000. Only Vesper was claimed. |
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