Saturday’s Canada Day Racing Festival card at Woodbine is a big one, with five graded stakes races across the 10-race program. Plenty of top-tier horses were among the entries, including ones we may see later this summer in the King’s Plate, Canada’s flagship race for 3-year-olds.

We’ve got a trio of spot plays that could provide some value. Here are some places you may want to take a stand!

Race #4, Maiden Optional Claiming, 5 furlongs, turf, 2:51 p.m. ET

We’ll start in the fourth, a maiden race for fillies and mares going five furlongs on the inner turf. Being honest, none of the runners in here with experience impress me much, so I’m going with a first-time starter.

That’s #5 TEQUILASOUPERNOVA, who debuts for trainer Robert Tiller after a few sharp local workouts. Her dam, Tequilamockingbird, has four prior foals to race, and they’ve all been winners. Tiller’s runners sometimes need a race to get going, but she’s shown precocity in the mornings and gets first-call rider Sofia Vives, who has connected with 23% of Tiller-trained runners this meet.

I think Tequilasoupernova will be forwardly placed given the relative lack of early zip elsewhere. If she has any tactical speed — and judging by her works, I think she does — I think she’ll have a big chance to make her first start a winning one.

Race #5, $150,000 HPIbet Marine Stakes, 1 1/16 miles, all weather, 3:24 p.m. ET

The Marine Stakes drew a field of seven 3-year-olds, and five of them are Ontario-breds eligible for the King’s Plate down the road. However, my top pick is a runner bred in the U.S., one that returned with a flourish in May.

#2 CHURCH AND STATE ran for the first time in four months in a seven-furlong stakes race. He didn’t break well, but he came flying late to record his third win in four career tries. It’s worth noting that all three wins have come running on Lasix, and he’ll get to do that in this spot (he wouldn’t be able to in a similar race in his native country).

He stretches back out to two turns, but he handled a similar route well last December in an allowance-optional claiming race. As long as he gets some pace to chase, and I think he will, he hits me as strictly the one to beat.

Race #10, $175,000 Nassau Stakes, one mile, turf, 6:11 p.m. ET

Nassau Stakes contender Austere (BloodHorse/Skip Dickstein)

We finish with a fantastic betting race, as the Nassau has drawn a field of 12 fillies and mares to go a mile on the grass. The field includes last year’s King’s Plate winner, #4 CAITLINHERGRTNESS, but I’m going another direction with my top pick.

I liked #12 AUSTERE quite a bit last time out in the Grade 3 Gallorette Stakes at Pimlico. She ran well to be second behind Charlene’s Dream, who got an easy lead and was never seriously challenged. Austere, however, was the only runner who made any significant headway late, and she should get a much better setup in the Saturday finale.

Several runners in here have shown early speed, and a few are stretching out from sprint races to run here. If that fast pace materializes, I think Austere is the one they’ll have to hold off going down Woodbine’s long stretch.