Colonial Downs’ biggest day of summer welcomes a trio of Windy City transfers in the Secretariat, Beverly D. and Arlington Million. They’ll run for $2 million in total among the turf triumvirate on a 12-race card that also includes four listed stakes.

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Let’s meet the contenders for the Beverly D (Race 10), which will be run over 1-3/16 miles:

#1-CHICK’S SHADOW: 8-year-old mare will try to snap an 8-race losing streak in her toughest career assignment. Her 55th lifetime start will be the first in a graded stakes for this Florida-bred. She’s 4-for-4 in the exacta over the Colonial Downs turf, including an allowance runner-up July 11 in her most recent start. Jockey Jose Lopez last won a graded stakes in the 2004 Chaposa Springs at Calder, paying $80 to win that day.

#2-BE YOUR BEST: The 9-5 morning line favorite is cross-entered in Friday’s Grade 2 $300,00 Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga. Well-traveled 5-year-old won the Grade 2 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream in January and May’s Grade 1 Gamely at Santa Anita most recently. The millionaire earner is trained by Saffie Joseph Jr. and has Tyler Gaffalione named to ride. Gaffalione returned July 3 from an ankle injury and seeks his first graded stakes victory of the 2025 summer.

#3-BEACH BOMB: South African export has been with Graham Motion’s barn for the past year and has been consistently strong on the current campaign. She won the The Very One and Orchid at Gulfstream before finishing second in both the Sheepshead Bay at Aqueduct and New York Stakes at Saratoga. The 5-year-old will have regular rider Luis Saez in the saddle as she looks to get back to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf after finishing just 3-1/2 lengths back in last year’s Del Mar renewal.

#4-CHARLENE’S DREAM: Front-running winner of Pimlico’s Grade 3 Gallorette on Preakness Day (pictured), this 4-year-old filly will take them as far as she can under Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano. Castellano won the 2023 Beverly D. aboard Fev Rover. Charlene’s Dream failed to carry her speed in a pair of Churchill stakes since and has yet to win beyond 1-1/16 miles. Ed Moger Jr. trains the lightly raced filly who has made only 3 starts on the season each of the past 2 years.

#5-SPANISH EYES: German export is the most lightly raced runner in the field with only 7 prior career starts and a lone maiden victory in her June 2024 debut. Brendan Walsh took over the training this year for the 4-year-old and she’s turned in a troubled-trip allowance fourth as well as a photo defeat when second in the Delaware’s Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes. Ben Curtis rides. Three German-breds have won the Beverly D., including Royal Highness (2007), Eclair de Lune (2010) and Dalika (2022), all under the tutelage of US-based trainers after transfers.

#6-DUVET DAY: Irish-bred export came to Michael McCarthy’s barn late in 2021 prior to her third start and has inconsistently gone about her business. She won Santa Anita’s listed Astra Stakes in 2023 and got her signature score last November in Churchill’s Grade 3 Cardinal. That victory in the Cardinal is her only in her last 13 starts, but she knocked on the door last time out at Churchill when a close second in the listed Anchorage Stakes. John Velazquez stakes the mount as Duvet Day looks to tie 4 others as the oldest winner of the Beverly D. at age 6. Velazquez won this race in 2018-’19 with Sistercharlie.