Nitrogen snapped a two-race losing skid last month with an authoritative win in the Bayakoa (G3).

While Nitrogen awaits the Spinster (G1), the other prime players in the three-year-old fillies’ division will clash in Saturday’s $1 million Cotillion (G1) at Parx.

The two previous times the three-year-old fillies Good Cheer and La Cara met on the racetrack, one proved victorious while the other was not competitive.

The $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) headlines a trio of graded stakes taking place on the second Saturday of the Saratoga summer meet.

La Cara led all the way in Saturday's Acorn S. (G1) at Saratoga, handing formerly unbeaten divisional leader Good Cheer her first setback with the gate-to-wire decision.

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival kicks up a gear at Saratoga on Friday, with a total of six graded stakes on tap. Fillies and mares take center stage in the three dirt stakes.

All went according to connections' plan for La Cara in the $742,782 Ashland (G1) at Keeneland on Monday.

Sovereignty burnished his Kentucky Derby (G1) credentials in the Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream Park.

Speed was the name of the game in both points races on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs.