Prairie Meadows race fans will have a lot to celebrate this Fourth of July weekend. The track’s All-American Extravaganza will feature fireworks after a special 10-race card Thursday (July 3), followed by a two-day Festival of Racing that includes an All-Stakes Pick 3 wager on the July 4 card and the featured $300,000 Iowa Derby on Saturday (July 5). Here’s a look at the Friday Pick 3 lineup of $100,000 stakes:

PrM 7th race (7:38 p.m. EST) -- Five of the eight 2-year-old fillies in the Prairie Golden Lassie arrive from various tracks off front-end victories. SASSY C W is a deserving 8-5 morning-line favorite, earning a one-of-a-kind ‘rocket ship’ comment in her debut win, then conquering stakes rivals at Saratoga under a ‘continued hand-ride’ despite stumbling at the start and breaking last. But KICKIN was visually impressive, too, in her first start, blowing past the 9-5 pace setter on the turn at Hawthorne and exploding in the final sixteenth to win at 4-1/2F by 7-1/4 lengths. She is a must use in the Pick 3 and a good flat bet at anywhere near her 6-1 morning line price. BEST FRIEND rallied into photo-finish view with the dueling favorites, earned the top speed figure in today’s field when finishing third in her Churchill Downs debut and will have plenty of pace to rally into.

PrM 8th race (8:06 p.m. EST) -- There’s little room for error in the Saylorville Stakes that unites seven fillies and mares with a combined 25-for-52 record at 6F. OEUVRE became the field’s lone millionaire with – get this – nine consecutive stakes victories in dirt sprints dating back to 2022. LEGADEMA makes her seasonal debut off a six-week series of workouts at Churchill Downs. She raced only twice since she won a 6F stakes here 14 months ago, finishing third in a pair of 7F tests won by multiple graded stakes-placed fillies Emery (5-11, $867k) and My Mane Squeeze (6-16, $1.15 million). BOURBON BREEZE added blinkers three starts ago and is in top form for her first stakes attempt. She altered course but closed strongly to win an allowance sprint on a muddy Keeneland track, then held off a trio of closers to repeat at Oaklawn Park in 1:10.4, one second off a 3-year-old stakes race for the boys on the same card. CHARLEE MAY is winless the last two years, but she plays to a steady beat and had a good tune-up over the Prairie Meadows dirt, rallying for third and ‘finishing with good response’ while 4-wide in the Prairie Rose Stakes last month.

PrM 9th race (8:34 p.m. EST) -- GLENGARRY (pictured) ran to a trio of blistering workouts in May, charging furiously in a near miss against a front-end allowance winner two back, then winning the $50,000 Ed Skinner under confident handling for his fourth consecutive stakes win sprinting. SECOND I D set a pressured pace and pulled away to win a 5-1/2F allowance in 1:03-3/5, his first start after two years away. He is a ‘bounce’ candidate but must be respected off that effort with a perfect three-race record intact. REDLINE posted 90-plus Beyer speed figures in his last six starts on a fast track, winning three stakes along the way. The streak ended on a sloppy track in the Speightstown Sprint at Lone Star Park when he rallied from far back for fourth behind a pair of double-digit longshots.

Suggested $1 Pick 3
PrM 7th Race: 5, 7
PrM 8th Race: 3, 4, 5, 6
PrM 9th Race: 1, 6
Cost: $16