SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Belmont Stakes runner-up Fly Down is the favorite for Saturday's $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga in a race that serves as a prep for the $1 million Travers on Aug. 28.

While Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver and Preakness winner Lookin At Lucky are running in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth on Sunday, the 1 1/8-mile Jim Dandy drew a field of nine 3-year-olds.

The Jim Dandy shares top billing Saturday with the $500,000, Grade 1 Diana Handicap, which will be run over the main turf course at 1 1/8 miles and drew seven fillies and mares including Forever Together, who will attempt to win the race for an unprecedented third consecutive year.

The Nick Zito-trained Fly Down, who will be ridden by Jose Lezcano, will break from the extreme outside post position in the Jim Dandy. Fly Down has not competed since placing behind Drosselmeyer in the Belmont Stake and was given a fast half-mile workout Monday.

``He's coming off a 1 1/2-mile race and you have to do things like that,'' said Zito, who will also saddle long shot Miner's Reserve in the Jim Dandy. ``Obviously, we know his fitness level. We're hoping he's a little sharp for the race. He's a very good horse. He looks good.''

Except for Aikenite, who finished 10th of 12 in the Preakness, none of the others named to start raced in the Triple Crown series. The Irish horse Steinbeck, however, is an unknown. The Aidan O'Brien-trained colt is without a major victory racing in England and Ireland, and is making his first start on dirt.

The 6-year-old Forever Together, female turf-course champion in 2008, has twice finished second this year, defeated in each race by one of the nation's leading turf-course females.

She fell a half-length short of overtaking Wasted Tears in the Jenny Wiley Stakes at Keeneland in April and missed by the same margin in May at Hollywood Park, where she was defeated by Tuscan Evening in the Gamely Handicap. Julien Leparoux, who missed the Gamely because of an injury, will be reunited with Forever Together for the Diana.

``She's consistently been running in Grade 1 races and the occasional Grade 2,'' trainer Jonathan Sheppard said. ``If you wanted to be harsh, you could criticize her for not having enough punch, but I don't think that's the case. She's been the victim of pace-less races.''

Proviso and Phola, winner and runner-up in the Just a Game Stakes at Belmont Park; Dynaslew, winner of the Beaugay Handicap, also at Belmont; and Shared Account, winner of the All Along Stakes at Colonial Downs in her last start, will try to deny Forever Together a record third straight title.