OCEANPORT, N.J. – Year after year, trainer Chad Brown’s barn is filled with quality filly and mare turf horses, and Monmouth’s Matchmaker Stakes has been a major goal. Brown has won the race seven times, including the last four editions, and he entered three in Saturday’s Grade 3, $300,000 renewal at 1 1/8 miles on the Monmouth Park turf. Beaute Cachee took advantage of a slow pace when upsetting Keeneland’s Grade 1 Jenny Wiley on April 13. She couldn’t make the lead in her subsequent start, the Grade 1 Just a Game at Saratoga, and faltered to finish last of seven in a race where stablemates Chili Flag and Whitebeam ran one-two. The 5-year-old gray mare showed an affinity for this course last year when winning the Violet on Sept. 2. She reunites with jockey Frankie Dettori, who piloted Beaute Cachee in the Jenny Wiley. Delahaye has won four of her last five starts for Brown, including the Grade 3 Mint Julep over yielding Churchill turf on June 2. A 4-year-old by Medaglia d’Oro, Delahaye is stabled at Monmouth and recorded a pair of half-mile breezes over the main track the last two weeks. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. Maman Joon has yet to win a stakes race, but the Irish-bred filly by Sea The Stars might have the most upside of the Brown trio. She won her first two starts for the barn before rallying powerfully to finish second to Brown-trained Tax Implications in the Grade 3 Eatontown on June 15. Todd Pletcher looks to snap Brown’s streak of Matchmaker dominance with Surprisingly, who finished second in this race last year when trained by Shug McGaughey. Purchased by Repole Stable for $1 million from the Keeneland November sale, Surprisingly finished second in both the Grade 2 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf and the Grade 3 Orchid at Gulfstream. She might not have cared for yielding going when the beaten favorite in Churchill’s Grade 3 Modesty, then finished a solid fourth in the Grade 1 New York. Grade 2 winner Papilio steps back into the stakes ranks following a successful second-level allowance victory. “We gave her the winter off and I was expecting a big effort out of her first time back,” trainer Mark Casse said. “She ran well” in a second-place finish in a Gulfstream allowance – “but I was expecting more. Her last race was good.” Casse expects Papiilo to utilize “midpack” tactics. Olivia Maralda shipped to Southern California for a good runner-up effort behind Anisette, one of the top filly and mare turf horses on the West Coast, in the Grade 1 Gamely at Santa Anita. Sacred Wish, the Eatontown beaten favorite, completes the field. Wolf Hill Stakes Arzak and Nothing Better look like the main contenders in the $100,000 Wolf Hill for 3-year-olds and up traveling 5 1/2 furlongs on turf. Arzak won Keeneland’s Grade 3 Shakertown in his seasonal debut, then finished second to Cogburn in the Grade 1 Jaipur at Saratoga. That race was notable as Cogburn sped 5 1/2 furlongs in 59.80 seconds, shattering the North American record for the distance. “He tried really hard,” trainer Michael Trombetta said. “That day was a bit of an anomaly. [Cogburn] ran so good, nobody was catching him.” Trombetta is pleased with Arzak’s training and mentioned Keeneland’s Woodford Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar as long-term goals. Arzak won last year’s Woodford before finishing sixth in the Breeders’ Cup. Nothing Better dwelt at the start of his first outing this year, but trainer Jorge Duarte Jr. tinkered with some things, and the veteran gelding responded to win the Mighty Beau at Churchill. “We used a shield to cover his vision a little bit” in the gate, Duarte said. “It worked at Churchill. We’ve been working a lot with him in the gate.” Duarte said Nothing Better came out of the Mighty Beau with “shipping fever. We gave him a week at the farm in a paddock. Ever since, he’s been training good.” Alogon seeks his first victory since last year’s Wolf Hill. Eamonn is a late kicker who benefits from quick fractions. Conversely, That’s Right seems like more of a speedball. Golden Brown, Extendo, Outlaw Country, Let My People Go, and Barristan The Bold also entered. Spun and Won is entered for the main track only. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.