Keeneland’s featured eighth race Thursday, a high-level turf sprint allowance for older fillies and mares, has nothing on the supporting feature, a two-turn dirt allowance carded as race 7. Restricted to 3-year-olds, the seventh race, at 1 1/8 miles, is for second-level allowance horses or $125,000 claimers and drew nine entrants, including Society Man, an in-form stakes dropper who already has made four starts at the distance. Trained by Danny Gargan and shipping to Keeneland from Saratoga, Society Man drops in class from a solid third-place finish in the Grade 3 West Virginia Derby and a win at Churchill Downs in the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes, credentials you might think would make him favored Thursday – but won’t. In West Virginia, Society Man lost by more than five lengths to victorious Dragoon Guard. Brad Cox trains Dragoon Guard and could have an even better horse for Thursday’s seventh in Star of Wonder. Listed at 7-5 on the morning line, Star of Wonder debuted June 2 and finished with a flourish winning a one-turn-mile maiden race by 3 1/2 lengths. The colt required a summer respite before turning in an equally eye-catching victory Sept. 14 at Churchill, winning a first-level allowance over seven furlongs by one length, earning a 95 Beyer Speed Figure. :: Play Keeneland with the most trusted information in horse racing! All Access Past Performances, Picks, Betting Strategies and more. “I think he could be a graded horse in time,” said Cox, who trains Star of Wonder for his breeder, WinStar Farm, and Siena Farm. Star of Wonder got in plenty of work as a 2-year-old but never made the races. Cox said he displayed enough ability in his early breezes that he thought Star of Wonder might be a horse for the 2024 Triple Crown. That didn’t come close to panning out, but Star of Wonder has yet to try a distance that might best suit him. “I think he wants to run long,” Cox said. Star of Wonder is by Uncle Mo out of the Congrats mare Starship Warpspeed, making him a half-brother to Shedaresthedevil, a three-time Grade 1 winner who won the 2020 Kentucky Oaks for Cox. Cox’s barn, rarely chilly, has scorched through this Keeneland meet. The leading trainer going into this week’s action, Cox has gone 11-2-2 from 28 Keeneland runners. On dirt, he’s 19-10-2-1, and in stakes races, the record stands at 7-5-0-1. While Star of Wonder will offer negative value, Snead could sneak into the frame at a more appealing price for trainer Brendan Walsh, who also has put together a strong Keeneland meet, with seven winners through Oct. 20. Snead, a hope for the spring classics last winter before going to the sidelines, made a long-layoff comeback last month in a Churchill one-turn mile, where he finished a tepid fifth, but is very much a two-turn horse. Illinois-bred win machine Oeuvre tops the 10 fillies and mares entered in race 8. Oeuvre has won 16 of her 25 starts since Chris Block took over her training in 2022, and while her lone victory from three Keeneland starts came in a two-turn mile last fall, Oeuvre’s best game has been turf-sprinting. She beat a modest field of Illinois-breds on dirt last out but earned a 93 Beyer while never asked for any run by jockey Jareth Loveberry, who has a return call Thursday. :: Subscribe to the DRF Post Time Email Newsletter: Get the news you need to play today's races!  ◗ According to Cox, there’s not yet a specific race targeted by the connections of Emery, who comfortably won the Grade 2 Raven Run on Saturday with a career-best 95 Beyer. ◗ Cox said that Saudi Crown is back on track for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile after posting a sharp half-mile work last weekend at Churchill. Saudi Crown missed his intended Dirt Mile prep in the Ack Ack Stakes last month with an injured hoof and returned to breezing Oct. 13 at Keeneland. ◗ East Avenue, who will vie for favoritism in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile for Walsh, worked a half-mile Oct. 18 at Churchill, his first breeze since cruising to a 5 1/4-length score Oct. 5 in the Breeders’ Futurity. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.