For an encore: the 57th running of the Massachusetts Handicap at a mile and an eighth.

Cigar will be shooting for his second straight victory in the Massachusetts Handicap and his 15th over all.

In June, the Massachusetts Handicap by four.

The weight is high and the odds are short for Cigar in the Massachusetts Handicap tomorrow.

He will be the favorite to win the Massachusetts Handicap on Saturday for the second year in a row.

Racing at age four and five, he won six of ten starts while setting a track record in his win in the 1940 Massachusetts Handicap.

Then all he had to do was win the Massachusetts Handicap to bag the purse plus the bonus for winning all four.

Running Stag, at 3-1, now heads a field of eight in the Massachusetts Handicap.

Then, two months later, he won the Massachusetts Handicap, pushed his career earnings above $8 million and came within one race of tying Citation's modern record.

One of those wins was the grade two Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs.