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Wrap up your summer with some exciting races happening at Saratoga and Del Mar on Labor Day. (AP Images)

This Labor Day, check out some of the exciting stakes races that Saratoga and Del Mar have to offer as the summer racing season wraps up.

Saratoga's official closing day is Monday, Sept. 1 and will end with a pair of exciting stakes races. First off is the 104th running of the $250,000 Gr. 1 Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes, one of the most significant races for 2-year-olds nationwide. “The Hopeful Stakes has long held a unique place on the Saratoga stakes schedule, as the winner is automatically stamped as the crop’s first classic hopeful,” New York Racing Association President and CEO Charles Hayward said. Hallowed past winners include Secretariat in 1972 and Afleet Alex in 2004. This year's prominent nominees include Notonthesamepage, a speedy Wesley Ward-trained colt who placed second in the Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park in July.

Second on the day's schedule at Saratoga is the Glens Falls Handicap for fillies and mares 3 years old and up, a Grade 3 race on turf. A potential rematch is in the works, as J'ray and Dyna's Lassie, one-two finishers in the Matchmaker Stakes earlier this month, have both been nominated.

Del Mar's second last day of summer racing kicks off with the Windy Sands Handicap, a one-mile race for 3-year-olds and up. Four-year-old Johnny Eves, winless in all five starts this year, will be looking to return to the form which saw him win the Gr. 1 Malibu Stakes in December. The $100,000 I'm Smokin Stakes is next and will feature California-bred 2-year-olds. Look for the Jerry Hollendorfer-trained Babs Moossa to try to add to his unbeaten streak with a third consecutive stakes win. Also looking to continue a two-win streak is Evita Argentina, who is a favorite among the probable starters in the $250,000 Gr. 1 Del Mar Debutante, a seven-furlong race for fillies 2 years old and up.

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