The first four finishers from last month’s West Virginia Roger Ramey Breeders Classic are set to renew acquaintances in Saturday’s $75,000 My Sister Pearl Stakes, and they’ll be joined by Cavada runner-up Hessica.

The 1 1/8-mile My Sister Pearl, for state-bred fillies and mares, is the seventh race on Charles Town’s eight-race Saturday program. Post time for the card is 7:00 p.m.

Hessica, a two-time Cavada winner, saw her bid for an unprecedented threepeat in that event foiled by Overnight Pow Wow October 12. A homebred for trainer Kristy Petty, Hessica has won nine races and registered over $390,000 in purse earnings in her career.

It could be the final career start for the five-year-old Juba mare, and it will come at a three-turn distance. Hessica has made only one of her prior 31 starts going three turns; that came this past June when she finished second in an allowance to Juba’s Parade.

Hessica has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorite and will have regular pilot Antonio Lopez in the irons.

Distaff winner Change the World and runner-up Juba’s Parade, the beaten favorite in that event, lead Hessica’s competition.

Change the World (3-1), a Coleswood Farm homebred trained by Jeff Runco, rallied from well back to win the Distaff by 2 ½ lengths under jockey Arnaldo Bocachica. It was one of Bocachica’s five victories on WVBC night.

It was the first career stakes win for the five-year-old Overanalyze mare, and it came in her first three-turn try. It also yielded a career-best 78 Beyer speed figure for Change the World, who now has just over $240,000 banked.

Juba’s Parade (7-2), owned and trained by Kristy Petty and bred by Taylor Mountain Farm, was the Distaff’s beaten favorite, finishing second at 6-5 odds. She was never far off the pace in the Distaff, which may have been her downfall, as the pace was nearly as fast as that of the Sam Huff Breeders Classic for the boys, a race whose final time was two seconds faster than the Distaff.

In search of her first stakes win, Juba’s Parade will have Wilfredo Santiago in the irons.

Last year’s My Sister Pearl winner, Someday Is Today (10-1), returns to try to defend her title. Trained by Anthony Farrior for Andrew Warren, Someday Is Today swept the Distaff-My Sister Pearl double last year.

This year, though, she entered the Distaff with only one seasonal start under her belt, that having come nearly four months earlier. The six-year-old Carpe Diem mare was an even fourth in the Distaff this time around and will look to take a step forward in the My Sister Pearl under jockey Marshall Mendez.

Barbers Point (4-1), another Runco-Coleswood product, got cooked chasing the pace of Overnight Pow Wow when fifth in the Cavada on WVBC night. In her prior start, though, she led a long way before settling for a good second behind Hessica in the Sadie Hawkins. Angel Cruz will ride.

Distaff show horse Foxy Sista and sixth-place finisher Seneca Rocks, along with first-time stakes entrant Somesugarnspice, complete the field.

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