It’s homecoming night for Ova Charged, who brings the year’s highest Beyer Speed Figure into the $100,000 Mademoiselle on the $600,000 Louisiana Legends Night card Saturday at Evangeline Downs. There are a total of six divisional stakes on the card, with each restricted to horses bred in Louisiana. During the program, Evangeline will honor racing legends from its state: Calvin Borel, Mark Guidry, Larry Robideaux Jr., Joseph Broussard, Eddie Johnston, and Charles Ashy Sr. Ova Charged cemented her place in Louisiana racing history March 24 at Fair Grounds, when she won the Page Cortez turf sprint with a Beyer of 113. It’s the top number earned on any surface so far this year, and on Saturday she moves back to dirt to face seven others in the 5 1/2-furlong Mademoiselle. Ova Charged will be looking for her sixth straight win, as she enters off a wire-to-wire victory in the Grade 3 Unbridled Sydney over five furlongs on turf on the Kentucky Oaks undercard May 3 at Churchill Downs. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. “Her last dirt race went 1:09 and change and she won pretty handily,” said Shane Wilson, who trains Ova Charged for her breeder, the Brittlyn Stable operation of Evelyn Benoit. “She’s doing well on the turf. I think she might be better on the turf. “But at the same time, I don’t want to have her travel 20, 24 hours here and there to compete against graded horses all the time and after a few months we look up and we don’t have a filly any more. She’s tired, you know. This is here. It’s local. We’re from Louisiana. Ms. Benoit is a huge advocate for Louisiana racing and she wanted to run her here in Louisiana and let people in Louisiana see her. And you know, she’s our Louisiana queen right now.” Ova Charged began her streak Dec. 9 at Fair Grounds, with a win in the Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Sprint on dirt at Fair Grounds. She then captured three more stakes at the track before traveling to Kentucky. Wilson said she returned to his division at Evangeline after the Unbridled Sydney. “We’ll run here and hopefully if everything goes well and she comes back fine, we’ll look for something to go to on the road,” Wilson said. “We could maybe go to Ellis Park, or they have a stakes at Lone Star. Kentucky Downs is not too far away.” Wilson said for now, the focus is on a win at home for the daughter of the Louisiana-based stallion Star Guitar. Jose Guerrero has the mount from post 6. “She’ll come from off of it,” Wilson said. “We’ve sat off of it. But I think especially with these mares, in my experience, when they get good and they get on a roll, they’ll jump out there and want to get it on as soon as the doors open. Her last two races, she’s broke much faster than she did the previous races.” Ova Charged brings a 13-for- 16 record into the Mademoiselle and will seek to nail down the 11th stakes win of her career while making her first start at Evangeline. “A lot of people ask me what makes her different from the others ones and you know, she doesn’t have any wasted action,” Wilson said. “If you watch her, when her feet come off the ground, they’re going forward. She doesn’t hardly even pick them up to move forward. Everything is moving forward. If you watch her back feet, they don’t come way up under her belly. They come off the ground and they’re moving forward. She’s a very efficient mover.” Rematch in Soiree Clearly a Test and Emily’s Bullet will get a rematch in the Soiree, a one-mile race for 3-year-old fillies. Both will be moving back to two turns after finishing a respective one-two when separated by a neck in the Cajun Miss at seven furlongs at Evangeline. “We got head-bobbed out, beat by a neck at the most,” said Chasey Deville-Pomier, who trains Emily’s Bullet. “We’ll see what we can get done. “I like her better at a mile, for sure. She doesn’t like you rushing her out there. Going a little shorter, trying to get position, she’ll shut down on you. She doesn’t like it. She doesn’t want you rushing her up there. She wants to get there on her own terms.” Elio Barrera has the mount from the rail on Emily’s Bullet, who closed from 16 lengths back in the Cajun Miss. Guerrero has the mount on Clearly a Test from post 3. “She’s a really, really good filly,” Wilson said. “I think she’s still trying to figure out, you know, that we’re trying to beat everybody. We’re not just out here having fun going with the girls.” Behemah Star leads Turf Behemah Star will take on defending winner Woods N Water in the Turf, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds and up that drew 12. Behemah Star is a son of Star Guitar, who won a stakes named for his sire in March at Fair Grounds. He will break from post 6 under Guerrero in what will be a rare grass start for the winner of the Louisiana Champions Day Turf in December at Fair Grounds. “[Touchuponastar] has been so dominant on the dirt, we were trying to get him away from there so we stepped on the turf and handled it great,” Wilson said. Cheval a two-turn test Brittany’s Dream will seek to remain unbeaten at two turns when he chases after his third straight win in the one-mile Cheval for 3-year-olds. Brittany’s Dream, who is by Always Dreaming, moved to two turns in February and won both a maiden special weight and restricted stakes at Fair Grounds. He is making his first start since Feb. 24. “He ran a big race down there last out, beat some nice horses,” Wilson said. “I think he has a very, very bright future. We’ve been very high on him from the beginning. “You worry about the recency. You wish you had a little more time, another work, a race maybe, too. But we’re running out of time for races for straight 3-year-olds.” ◗ Sixth Anniversary will be looking for her third straight win when she takes on 11 others at a mile in the Turf Distaff. ◗ Mangum can be closer to the pace than he found himself last time when he goes as part of a field of 11 for the Sprint. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.