Trainer Chad Brown sends out his top two Travers (G1) candidates in Saturday’s Jim Dandy (G2), but the late-developing Artorius stated his “Midsummer Derby” case in Friday’s Curlin S. at Saratoga.

As its overflow 13-horse field suggests, Saturday’s $250,000 Sam F. Davis (G3) looms as a hotly competitive scoring race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.

Although he hasn’t run in two months, Kentucky Jockey Club S. (G2) winner Smile Happy remains the early favorite for the 2022 Kentucky Derby (G1).