Allamericanbeauty Primed for Wonder Again Challenge

Courtlandt Farms' Allamericanbeauty  will look to parlay a strong last-out allowance victory at Keeneland into graded stakes company in the June 6 $200,000 Wonder Again Stakes (G2T), a nine-furlong inner turf test for sophomore fillies, at Belmont Park.

The top-three finishers of the Wonder Again will receive an automatic invitation to the $500,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T) July 8 at Belmont.

Trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey, the daughter of Into Mischief   took a first-level allowance going the Wonder Again distance April 14 at Keeneland to notch her first score again winners in her second attempt.

Ridden by Frankie Dettori, the talented bay emerged from the outermost post 11 and settled in 10th behind a swift tempo set by Safeen , who exited that effort to win the Horseshoe Indianapolis Handicap in her next effort. Dettori swung Allamericanbeauty three-wide in the turn to take dead aim at the pacesetter and displayed an impressive turn of foot and take a half-length advantage in the shadow of the wire. She completed the course in 1:48.50.

"Frankie's ridden for me a couple of times and when you've got a guy like him around, you sure like to use him," said McGaughey. "I liked the way she finished and she showed she's growing up and growing into herself a bit. This is another big step forward for her, but if you're going to compete in these kinds of races you've got to (try) running in them."

Fellow Hall of Fame conditioner Todd Pletcher sends out the undefeated Spansive , who makes her stakes debut off a 1 1/4-length win over returning rival Juniper's Moon  in a 1 1/16-mile optional claiming tilt May 13 at Belmont.

The Repole Stable-owned daughter of Karakontie   has posted both her career wins in near-identical fashion, setting the pace and persevering to the wire to win by the same margin in each outing.

"She's off to a good start," Pletcher said. "It's hard to win your first two races and she looks like a filly that continues to improve."

Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown goes three deep in pursuit of his fifth Wonder Again triumph with Revalita , Venencia , and Prerequisite .

Wise Racing's graded stakes-placed Revalita arrives from a game runner-up finish to Heavenly Sunday  in the Edgewood Stakes (G2T) May 5 at Churchill Downs. The bay daughter of Recoletos  broke her maiden and won an allowance in France before coming stateside and finishing fourth in the Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park in her first start for Brown.

Bradley Thoroughbreds, Laura Leigh Stable, Jim Cone, Belmar Racing and Breeding, Cambron Equine, and Team Hanley's Venencia, another daughter of Recoletos, makes her second American start after finishing third in a Keeneland allowance April 27. The bay filly was a winner on debut in November at Chantilly in her native France.

First Row Partners and Team Hanley's Prerequisite makes her stakes debut and first start against winners after a second-out graduation going nine furlongs May 7 at Belmont. The runner-up in that race, Highland Grace , graduated impressively in her next outing June 3 at Belmont.

Rounding out the field are Be Your Best , Thirty Thou Kelvin , and Juniper's Moon.