Fort Washington, MD — Though the draw isn’t until Thursday (Nov. 29), the $100,000 Potomac Pace looks like it will have a competitive group of eight horses, among them Dealt A Winner, who competed in the first two editions of the race with a third last year and a fifth in 2016.

Pete Hanley, racing secretary at Rosecroft, said other horses expected for the Potomac are Indiana standout Endeavor; Filibuster Hanover, who won last year’s Little Brown Jug; Rock N’ Roll Jet, who has won four consecutive Open I paces at Rosecroft; Western Fame, who has earned almost $1 million and recently moved into the barn of Rene Allard; Geez Joe and Duplicated N, who finished one-two in a condition event at Meadowlands last weekend that was timed in 1:49; and Rockin Ron, who like Filibuster Hanover is trained by Ron Burke, the leading trainer by wins (more than 900) and earnings (more than $20 million) this year.

“A lot of horses have been turned out for the year,” Hanley said, “so for what’s out there now, it should be a pretty good field.”

The Burke-trained Foiled Again, the 14-year-old gelding who has won more than $7.6 million, will visit Rosecroft on Potomac Pace night and race in a $15,000 event for horses 10 and older. Many of the horses expected for the race are locally based, including Real Flight, a 1:53.4 winner of a condition event Nov. 21, and Arts Blaze, a 14-year-old who captured a claiming race in 1:54.2 Nov. 25.

Hanley said the “Foiled Again Invitational” will be slotted early on the Sunday (Dec. 2) card — first post time is the usual 4:40 p.m. EST — to make time for a meet-and-greet later in the program. In his most recent start Nov. 24 at The Meadowlands, Foiled Again finished fourth in a $12,500 “Auld Lang Syne” pace that went in 1:51.4.

Foiled Again faces mandatory retirement Jan. 1 and is scheduled to race for the last time in western Pennsylvania the evening of Dec. 31 at The Meadows, Burke’s home track.

The program will include a $25,000 Maryland Invitational pace that will attract several of the Open I regulars at Rosecroft including All The Cookies, Hickory Aloha, Sams Triple Crown, Kiss A Dragon and Slick Tony. The race is for horses owned, sired or bred in Maryland.