Four $25,000 divisions of New York Sire Stakes for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings are on tap at Monticello Raceway for Monday (Aug. 2).

The 11-race card also includes three Excelsior A events, each racing for a purse of $15,000, and two Excelsior B events, vying for $6,600 in each dash.

This marks the third NYSS event of the year for the two-year-old colts, and a few have already distinguished themselves as the real deal.

The first Sire Stakes division is carded as Race 3. Pleaseletmeknow comes into the race with an excellent resume: in four lifetime starts, he has won three. The son of American Ideal was a Sire Stakes winner his last start at Saratoga in 1:55.4, second in NYSS action at Buffalo, and won the MGM Springfield Stakes at Yonkers. He’s banked $109,000 thus far this season. He will start from the rail with regular driver Matt Kakaley for trainer Travis Alexander. Forrest Blu (post two, Tyler Buter) and Top Genius (post four, Jordan Stratton) both won their respective Sire Stakes at Buffalo in their last start.

The second Sire Stakes features Kingsville (post one), who scored in 1:54.1 in a wire-to-wire performance in Sire Stakes at Buffalo last week. Jason Bartlett will drive. Pickup Man Hanover has one win and a second in this company and will start from post six with Billy Dobson at the helm.

Stretch The Line (post one, Tyler Buter) and Hurrikane Chuck (post seven, Mark MacDonald) are the early favourites in the third division, carded as race seven. In the final Sire Stakes split, Bluesville is looking to shed his role as bridesmaid and earn his first win after two second-place finishes. The son of Huntsville is owned by Purple Haze Stables LLC and is trained by George Ducharme.

Post time is 12:10 p.m.

(Monticello Raceway)