Saturday's card at Aqueduct features four graded stakes races, led by the Grade 1 Cigar Mile. There is a mandatory payout on the Empire Six and the Cigar Mile is the final race in the six-race sequence, which begins with race 5.   www.drf.com/live_odds www.drf.com/race-results/tracks/AQU/country/USA/date/12-07-2019 Race 5 is for 2-year-old maidens going a mile on the main track. Without a standout in the field (the morning-line favorite is pegged at 3/1) some coverage may be required. Tapage (No. 2) did not run well as the favorite when stretched out to nine furlongs in his most recent start, but he showed some potential one start prior when earning a 76 Beyer over this one-turn mile configuration. He looked a bit green early in that start, before making a move to contention in mid-race, coming wide to the stretch, then ultimately weakening late. A repeat of that effort as he cuts back would make him competitive here. Default Rate (1) is the morning-line favorite and seems like a horse to use somewhere in your play as he stretches out, and Farmington Road (5) appeared to get a nice education first time out when making a late run into a race that was won by his entry-mate.  A: 1, 2, 5 B:  4, 6, 9 :: Cigar Mile 2019: News, Expert Analysis, Contenders, Results, Get PPs, products, and news Race 6 is the first of the graded stakes on the card, the Grade 3 Go for Wand. It features a heavy favorite in Spiced Perfection (3), a horse many tickets are likely to lean on in the sequence. Spiced Perfection is a two-time Grade 1 winner since entering Peter Miller's barn and is exiting a solid try in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint where she faded to fourth after moving to contention in tandem with the eventual winner around the turn. There is some question surrounding her ability over a mile but she is something of a standout in this race and she also appears to be the lone speed. A:  3 B: 5, 6 Race 7 is another maiden special weight for 2-year-olds, this one over six furlongs. There are 12 entered with eight of them being first-time starters. Since the race comes up in the middle of the sequence you will go in blind to any action those horses might attract. I stuck with the experienced runners - Hedonistic (6), Trash Talker (10), and Ego Man (11) - for the main ticket, but bigger budgets may want to spread out in this race to cover as many bases as possible. A:  6, 10, 11 Race 8 is the Grade 2 Demoiselle, for 2-year-old fillies going nine furlongs. Maedean (2) has looked good winning her last two starts and she ran through the wire in the Tempted last time as though the added distance of this race will not be a problem for her. Alandra (5) won her debut at Saratoga while showing surprising early speed, then went favored in the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland and was allowed to get outrun early, before making a solid run through the stretch. They look like the main two but Fiftyshays Ofgreen (1) looked good winning around two turns last time and will offer some value. A:  2, 5 B:  1 Race 9 is the Grade 2 Remsen and the field of nine lacks a true standout. Forza Di Oro (2) hasn't run a fast race yet but he has looked like a colt of some potential in his first two starts. After badly blowing the start of his debut - and still making a bold run in that race before flattening out - he was much more professional second time out and won that race easily. Prince James (7) is better than he looks on paper after getting a no-chance trip at Churchill Downs last time and he already has a win around two turns. Todd Pletcher's pair of Chase Tracker (1) and Alpha Sixty Six (8) are hard to separate and they own the top two Beyer Speed Figures in the field. A:  2 B:  1, 7, 8 Race 10, the Grade 1 Cigar Mile, closes out the sequence and it is led by a pair of 3-year-olds in Maximum Security (5) and Spun to Run (6). Maximum Security had no trouble leaving Spun to Run behind in the Grade 1 Haskell on July 20 but there is some reason to think things might be different as they meet again in December, with the latter now being a Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner and owner of the top two figures in the field. I still prefer Maximum Security, but the margin may not be as great this time and these two horses may be destined to hook up early in the race. The horse I'm most interested in using at a price is Nicodemus (7), though he is also entered in Sunday's Fall Highweight and may not run here. A:  5, 7 B:  6