Seven stakes winners, including a pair of graded stakes victors, headline Friday’s 11^th running of the Grade 3, $400,000 Penn Mile at Penn National.

The Penn Mile, the highlight of the racing calendar at the Grantville, PA track, tops a card that includes three other turf stakes, topped by the $150,000 Penn Oaks. Also on tap are a pair of $50,000 stakes on the main track.

A field of 10 three-year-olds is signed on for the Penn Mile, and the deserving, if lukewarm, morning line favorite is Amerman Racing’s Trikari, who is 3-1. Trained by Graham Motion, the Oscar Performance colt has won three of five career outings and is a neck shy of a four-race win streak.

He has won two straight under jockey Umberto Rispoli, who has the return mount. He scored by a neck on the synthetic in the Rushaway Stakes two back at Turfway Park, and last out he earned a 47-1 upset win in the Grade 2 American Turf on the Kentucky Derby undercard at Churchill Downs.

“This horse is a very special horse to my career,” Rispoli said following the American Turf. “I won my 2,000^th race aboard him and I can’t thank his connections enough for keeping me aboard.”

In the American Turf, Rispoli managed to save ground while never far off the pace. They moved three wide in upper stretch and spurted away late to win by 1 ½ lengths.

“It was really special performance from a very nice and improving colt. He ran a great race,” Motion said afterwards.

Legend of Time, who finished fifth as the favorite in the American Turf, returned to win the Grade 2 Pennine Ridge at Aqueduct May 25.

Trikari will leave from the outside post as number 10.

The other graded winner in the group is the Brendan Walsh-trained First World War (4-1). Though he finished a disappointing ninth last out in the Grade 3 Transylvania at Keeneland, he was beaten just three lengths that day.

It came in his first start in two months, following a win in the Grade 3 Kitten’s Joy at Gulfstream Park Feb. 3.

Owned by Qatar Racing LLC and Hunter Valley Farm, First World War, a son of War Front, has won two of six career starts and earned over $270,000. Frankie Dettori has the mount, and the pair will leave from post four.

Other turf stakes winners in the field include Kentucky Downs Juvenile winner Aspenite (10-1); the undefeated Good Lord Lorrie (9-2), winner of the Woodhaven last out; Atlantic Beach winner Please Advise (6-1); Set (6-1), winner of the Cutler Bay who was a disappointing no-show 12^th in the American Turf after a poor break; and English Channel winner Freedom Principle (5-1).

The Penn Mile is carded as the sixth on an 11-race program. First post is 5:00 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, and the Penn Mile is scheduled for 7:45 p.m.

One race prior, a bulky field of 12 is slated to contest the Penn Oaks at a mile on the turf for three-year-old fillies.

The morning line favorite for the Oaks is Pounce, trained by Mark Casse for Resolute Racing. Casse, a Hall of Famer, trained the only filly to win the Penn Mile; that was Catch a Glimpse in 2016.

With Pounce, he’ll send out a filly who scored a 9-1 upset in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride at Gulfstream Park March 2. In her follow-up, however, she finished 11^th as the favorite in the Grade 2 Appalachian at Keeneland. In that race, she was part of an early pace mix that cooked the runners involved.

Javier Castellano has the mount for the fourth straight race. Pounce will leave from the 10-hole.

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