With Klaravich Stables’ 2-year-old duo of Systemic Risk and Worstcasescenario, trainer Rick Violette, Jr. will be well represented in both Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Nashua and Grade 3, $100,000 Tempted at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Both will be contested at a mile on Aqueduct’s main track, but Violette’s entrants couldn’t be more different.

Systemic Risk, a 2-year-old son of 2004 Wood Memorial winner Tapit, is a maiden who will be running his first race over a dirt surface in the Nashua.

The gray/roan colt has finished fourth in each of his two career starts – one in a maiden special weight and one in the Vision Stakes, both run over the Belmont Park turf.

“I’ve been trying to run him long on the dirt and the races haven’t been going,” Violette said. “I actually wanted his last start to come off the grass which it didn’t.”

On the other end of the spectrum is Worstcasescenario, who captured the Grade 2 Adirondack two races back at Saratoga on August 19. That win had Violette thinking of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, but those thoughts were dashed by Worstcasescenario’s last-place finish in Belmont’s Grade 2 Matron on September 19.

“Her feet were killing her [in the Matron], it’s as simple as that,” said Violette of his filly’s 41 3/4-length loss. “She didn’t feel right, and it took us a little bit to get her on track. [With a better Matron finish] we probably would have run back three weeks in the Frizette and then looked towards the Breeders’ Cup, but that plan kind of went out the window.”

Also with a pair of contenders for Saturday’s races is trainer Todd Pletcher, who will send out Toboggan Slide, a recent private purchase by Team Valor, in the Nashua and Ailalea, who exits a powerful maiden victory, in the Tempted.

Toboggan Slide, a 2-year-old son of Rock Slide, is undefeated in three starts, and exits a pair of overnight stakes scores at Delaware Park and Laurel.

“We've had him in the barn since the tenth of October and he's a very professional horse,” said Jonathan Thomas, assistant to Pletcher. “He does his job and he's been training forwardly here and we think he'll handle stretching out to a mile.”

Starlight Partners’ Ailalea broke her maiden by four lengths at Belmont Park last out at the Tempted distance.

“She’s a very nice filly and she’s coming off something similar,” said Thomas about the daughter of Pulpit. “She’s been training well and she’s the type we feel belongs in a race like this.”

Completing the field for the Nashua, which will be run as the fourth of eight live races, are Kingfield Stables’ Buddy’s Saint, William H. Lawrence’s Quick Ride, Kramer Stables LLC and William Rosenfeld’s Thank U Philippe and Padua Stable’s Enigmatic, who was a late supplement.

The rest of the field for the Tempted, going off as race No. 7, includes Michael Dubb’s Cuff Me, William L. Clifton, Jr.’s Kitty in a Tizzy, Edward P. Evans’ Mambo Fever, Repole Stable’s Nonna Mia, and Jim and Susan Hill’s Tizahit.