The first graded stakes race of the 2015 Saratoga meeting comes early this year, with the Grade 3 Schuylerville being run Friday as the fourth race at 2:39 p.m. Eastern. The Schuylerville is the first of three graded stakes at the meeting for 2-year-old fillies, followed by the Grade 2 Adirondack on Aug. 15 and the Grade 1 Spinaway on Sept. 5. I will be surprised if the Spinaway winner comes out of today’s field, in which no one has yet to run a Beyer Speed Figure higher than 70, unless someone takes a dramatic step forward today. The morning-line Schuylerville favorites are Positively Royal and Moment Is Right, and both are very plausible winners. Positively Royal, a $325,000 Bernardini filly, won her debut for Todd Pletcher in her 1-2 unveiling June 18. She won by 3 1/2 lengths and earned a moderate Beyer of 65 but has worked extremely well since and, like most Pletcher 2-year-olds, can be expected to improve second time out. I prefer Moment Is Right, who looks like the dominant front-runner in the field. She won her debut at Gulfstream by 8 1/2 lengths, then came north and was best in winning the rich but ungraded Astoria Stakes at Belmont on June 4. Decked Out and One Minute chased her home in that order. Those two return for another try today, but I see no particular reason to expect a reversal of fortune. The likeliest upsetter could be Banree, an uncoupled Wesley Ward-trained entrymate of Moment Is Right. Ward ran her against colts in the Tremont Stakes off a powerful debut victory at Keeneland. She was off slowly and raced wide, and she deserves a long look at 5-1 while dropping back in against fillies. :: DRF Bets Exotic Summer: Take out the takeout on Friday's pick five at Saratoga It was jarring to see the Schuylerville carded as the fourth race instead of the eighth, where it would have been part of a late pick four along with the featured Lake George, especially since the eighth race is also an eight-horse field going six furlongs. I asked Martin Panza, the New York Racing Association’s senior vice president for racing, why the Schuylerville is so early. “We believe the older horse race will handle more money later in the card than the 2-year-old race,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Also believe the older horse race makes for a more interesting pick four/pick six sequence. We did discuss at length. The 2-year-old stake helps to also bolster the early pick five and brings some interest to the early part of the card.”