Though rain washed Saturday’s pair of Illinois-bred stakes races off the grass, the races held together well and still featured some of Illinois’s most talented two-turn horses.  All six entrants remained to contest the Black Tie Affair Handicap, in which favoured Christian C stalked and pounced his way to victory.  Two races later, in the Mike Spellman Memorial Handicap, polytrack maven Dreamofjean E. scored the gate-to-wire upset.

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