After turning in a Grade 1 double Friday with Nitrogen and Counting Stars, Mark Casse made it a hat trick with Classic Q in the Just a Game (G1) at Saratoga.

An excellent edition of the $1 million Manhattan (G1) at Saratoga on Saturday tops a trio of graded stakes on the grass preceding the Belmont (G1).

Trainer Chad Brown won Friday’s $500,000 Just a Game (G1) for the fourth straight year, and a record eighth time in the past nine years, but not with his best-fancied runner.

In addition to the star power in the Acorn (G1) and Ogden Phipps (G1), Friday’s card at Saratoga showcases turf standout She Feels Pretty in the $750,000 New York (G1).

Chad Brown ranks as the all-time leading trainer in the $500,000 Just a Game (G1) with six wins, all accomplished in the past seven years.

Friday’s Grade 1 turf stakes at Belmont Park have attracted all-star fields, including competitors who’ve gone very close in the past two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1).

Fourth in the past two runnings of the Just a Game (G1), Regal Glory arrived in Saturday’s $480,000 renewal in the form of her life, and it showed.

Hours after upsetting the Epsom Derby (G1) with 16-1 shot Adayar and placing third with Hurricane Lane, Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby dominated Saturday’s $500,000 Just a Game S. (G1) at Belmont Park. Homebred Althiqa rallied up the rail to defeat frontrunning stablemate Summer Romance and garner her first Grade 1 laurel.