Site Read Favored in With Anticipation

Six promising 2-year-olds will go postward Sept. 2 at Saratoga Race Course, looking to add to their budding turf resumes with a victory in the $200,000 With Anticipation Stakes (gr. IIT).

The 11th edition of the 1 1/16-mile turf race, named in honor of the multiple grade I-winning gelding trained by Hall of Famer Jonathan Sheppard, will be run as race three on the Wednesday card, as the final week of 2015 racing at the Spa gets underway.

The narrow favorite at 2-1 on the morning line is Site Read, trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott and co-owned by Mott along with Jake Ballis and Rashard Lewis. Overlooked at 21-1 in his July 25 debut at Saratoga, the son of Tizdejavu   put in a next-to-last-to-first run to score by 4 1/2 lengths at the With Anticipation distance. Jose Lezcano will ride from post 5.

Representing the Todd Pletcher barn, as he tries for a fourth victory in the race, will be Red Oak Stable's Unbridled Daddy, who came from eighth to break his maiden by three-quarters of a length in the fourth race Aug. 16, and Alto Racing's Azar, who led throughout that race but succumbed in the final yards to his favored stablemate.

At 7-2 on the morning line, Unbridled Daddy will be ridden by Irad Ortiz, Jr. from post 6, while Azar, 5-1, will have the services of Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez from the 2 hole.

Trainer Mark Casse goes in search of his third victory of the meet with Gary Barber's Monster Bea, a gelded son of Hat Trick   who broke his maiden at second asking on August 8, coming four wide to score by 1 1/4 lengths. Luis Saez will ride from the rail.

Rounding out the field are Next Shares, second in a maiden event on Aug. 1 at Ellis Park, and Runaway King, a winner Aug. 5 at Delaware Park.