Boasting a roster of past champions that reads like a who’s who of sophomore fillies, from Vagrancy and Top Flight to Shuvee and Ruffian, Davona Dale and Sky Beauty to My Flag and Ashado, the Grade 1, $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks will be run for the 93rd time on Saturday, the final graded stakes race at Belmont Park before racing moves upstate to Saratoga.

A field of eight 3-year-old fillies is set to go postward in the 1¼-mile race, headed by the multiple graded-stakes winning Hightap, from the barn of trainer Steve Asmussen. Owned by Ron Winchell, Hightap comes into the Coaching Club American Oaks off back-to-back victories in a pair of Grade 3 events, the Dogwood at Churchill Downs and the Iowa Oaks at Prairie Meadows.

While Rachel Alexandra is the star of the stable, assistant trainer Scott Blasi had nothing but praise for the daughter of Tapit, who had her final prep for the race Monday at Saratoga, covering a half-mile in 50.40.

“Other than the race at Hot Springs (seventh in the Grade 3 Honeybee on March 15), where she bruised her foot, her last four starts for us have been perfect,” said Blasi. “She broke her maiden and won an allowance at the Fair Grounds, then had that off race, but her last two races have been great. She’s training beautifully and she’s moving in the right direction.”

The Coaching Club American Oaks will be the Belmont Park debut for Hightap, as well as for the Bob Baffert-trained Wynning Ride, who has spent most of her career in California.

Owned by Arnold Zechter, who campaigns Grade 1 Acorn winner Gabby’s Golden Gal, Wynning Ride last finished fourth as the favorite in the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, after which she shipped to Belmont to Baffert’s assistant, Tonja Terranova. In her only graded stakes effort, the daughter of Candy Ride finished second to Laragh in the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet in the final race of her 2-year-old campaign.

“She didn’t run like we expected in Woodbine,” said Baffert, who will be inducted into racing’s Hall of Fame this August at Saratoga. “But it was such a long trip, and since she’s been back in New York she’s been training great. It’s a Grade 1, $300,000, and I think she’s up to it.”

Boasting graded stakes wins are Alan Brodsky’s Don’t Forget Gil, winner of the Grade 3 Florida Oaks in March, and Puglisi Racing’s Livin Lovin, who won the Grade 3 Tempted at Aqueduct last year.

Don’t Forget Gil, who was scratched on June 27 from the Grade 1 Mother Goose, won by Rachel Alexandra, brings a record of 3-2-2 from eight starts, with her only off-the-board performance coming with an eighth-place finish in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan on May 15, her last race.

Livin Lovin has had but one start in 2009, finishing fourth in the Acorn on June 6, and trainer Steve Klesaris is hopeful the daughter of Birdstone will move forward off that effort.

“I think her first race this year was a good one,” said Klesaris, “and I think this is a good spot for her.”

Godolphin Stable’s Devotee made her first two starts in the United States, winning her maiden voyage at Saratoga last year and finishing third in the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland. She began her 3-year-old campaign abroad, winning the UAE Oaks in February and finishing 13th in the Grade 1 Stanjames 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in May. In her first start stateside this year, the daughter of Elusive Quality was an even third to Funny Moon in an optional claimer at Belmont on July 3.

Funny Moon, trained by Christophe Clement, is 3-1-0 from five starts, with her only poor performance coming in her only graded stakes appearance in the Grade 1 Acorn, in which she was eighth, beaten 23¾ lengths.

Edward P. Evans’ Casanova Move has hit the board in all 10 of her starts on dirt, including a pair of thirds at Belmont Park in the Acorn and in her career debut a year ago.

Tri-Bone Stables’ New York-bred What a Pear won the first four starts of her career including the Busher and the Wistful on Aqueduct’s inner track, and then was soundly defeated in the Grade 1 Ashland at Keeneland on Polytrack in April. In her last start, the daughter of E Dubai was sixth over a muddy track against fellow New Yorkers in the Bouwerie on May 3.

The 64-day Belmont spring/summer meet concludes Sunday, with Saratoga Race Course opening for its 141st season on Wednesday, July 29. Racing resumes at Belmont Park on Friday, September 11, for the Fall Championship Meet.