The $175,000 Monomoy Girl Stakes honors the two-time Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner of 2018 and 2020. The remarkable filly won 14 of 17 with a trio of second-place finishes while garnering a pair of Eclipse Awards for trainer Brad Cox. That barn is back Saturday in this namesake race with another Eclipse Award winner, last year’s Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Immersive (pictured) She missed the first five months of the 2025 season, but returns Saturday with an eye at perhaps another run to a Breeders’ Cup title.

Let’s meet the contenders for the 1-1/16 miles Monomoy Girl Stakes (Race 5):

#1-PRINCESS ALIYAH: Two-time winner at Oaklawn this year tallied the Valley of Vapors Stakes for D. Wayne Lukas. Overmatched in the Fantasy, Eight Belles and Black-Eyed Susan in Grade 2 company, she should appreciate the drop in class. $1.2 million daughter of Into Mischief is granddaughter of 1988 Kentucky Derby-winning filly Winning Colors and looks to make her own mark under the spires. Half-sister to Grade 1 Alabama winner Eskimo Kisses, fourth in the 2018 Kentucky Oaks. She owns a bullet workout June 4 and lures Nik Juarez.

#2-IMMERSIVE: Four wins in four starts last year included the Grade 1 trio in the Spinaway at Saratoga, Alcibiades at Keeneland and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar. She makes her first start of 2025 and first go-around at Churchill Downs for trainer Brad Cox, who last month won the Kentucky Oaks even in her absence with Godolphin stablemate Good Cheer. Manny Franco has been aboard in each start and returns to pilot the daughter of Nyquist, winner of the 2016 Kentucky Derby.

#3-ANNA’S PROMISE: Kentucky Oaks fifth-place finisher remained in Kentucky since for Gulfstream Park-based trainer Carlos David. The $50,000 claim in February was runner-up in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks and has rapidly improved since changing barns. Winless in 4 local attempts, but has a pair of second-place finishes at Churchill. Daughter of Grade 1-winning sprinter Promises Fulfilled, 15th in the 2018 Kentucky Derby after setting the pace. Luis Saez, aboard for a win and second at Gulfstream, reunites in the saddle.

#4-MINNESOTA MUNNY: Well-traveled Munnings filly exits a Delaware Park allowance win and will be stepping up in class to face the toughest field of her career. She has won 2 of 3 this year, including a Turfway maiden mile in February and will be trying Churchill for the first time. Kelsey Danner trains and regular pilot Adam Beschizza reunites with her return to Kentucky.

#5-RUNNING AWAY: This 2-time stakes winner of Aqueduct’s Busanda as well as the May 14 Horseshoe Indianapolis Handicap is a rare Wesley Ward route specialist. Gun Runner filly has won 3 of her last 4 since exiting turf bids to open her career. John Velazquez rode her to her maiden win at Churchill in November and returns to the saddle. Each of her wins has come wire-to-wire, so expect speed.

#6-TAKE CHARGE MILADY: Winner of Oaklawn’s Honeybee and runner-up in Keeneland’s Grade 1 Ashland Stakes, she’ll try to rebound off a disappointing 12th of 13 in the Kentucky Oaks. Daughter of Take Charge Indy has bagged $400,000-plus off a $60,000 yearling purchase price at Keeneland September 2023. Brian Hernandez Jr. and Kenny McPeek provide a popular teaming at Churchill having swept the 2024 Kentucky Derby and Oaks.