Alluring Angel News Today

Emory Hamilton's homebred Pleasant Passage overcame rainy conditions and a yielding turf course in Saturday’s $200,000 Miss Grillo (G2) with a gate-to-wire three-quarter-length victory at Aqueduct that could catapult her to the Breeders’ Cup on November 4.

Michael J. Ryan’s Irish homebred Be Your Best will vie for her second stakes score and first at the graded level for trainer Horacio De Paz in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Miss Grillo, a 1 1/16-mile inner turf test for juvenile fillies, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Trainer Kelsey Danner scored her first Kentucky Downs stakes victory on Tuesday when Danse Macabre won the $500,000 Ainsworth Untapable.

A trio of Kentucky Downs stakes winners from last year will be in action in Family Way, Adventuring and Koala Princess.

Lawrence Goichman’s New York homebred Lachaise, a younger half brother to a pair of stakes winners, will attempt to uphold the family tradition when he makes his second career start in Wednesday’s Grade 3, $175,000 With Anticipation at Saratoga Race Course.