With Bishops Bay following a path similar to a year ago when he won four graded stakes races, the looming question for the 6-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Uncle Mo now is whether he can produce similar results.

Blake Cox, who serves as an assistant to his dad, Brad Cox, sees no reason why that won’t be the case, starting with Saturday’s Grade 3 Salvator Mile, one of four stakes races on Monmouth Park’s Haskell Preview Day.

Bishops Bay romped to a five-length win in the slop in the Salvator Mile a year ago, part of a campaign that saw him produce six wins and a second from eight starts with earnings of $743,600.

“We’re looking to get him back in the win column,” said the younger Cox. “He looks to us like he is as good as he was last year. He is not giving us any signs that he’s regressed. We’re really trying to get him going again and this looked like a good spot to get started on that.”

The Salvator Mile attracted a field of nine 3-year-olds-and-up, with Bishops Bay one of five in the field with a graded stakes win. That includes Grade 1 winner East Avenue from trainer Brendan Walsh’s barn.

The top two finishers in the race receive free entry and start fees to the Grade 3 Monmouth Cup on the July 18 NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes undercard.

The biggest deviation in the Bishops Bay’s schedule from last year to this year is that he raced in the $20 million, Grade 1 Saudi Cup on Feb. 14, finishing fourth behind race winner Forever Young at King Abdulaziz Racecourse. That fourth-place finish in his seasonal debut earned him $1.5 million – an amount that covered the $1.3 million that KAS Stables paid for him last Nov. 12 at the Keeneland Association Horses of Racing Age Sale.

“We went on a pretty good run with him last summer and the horse came back from Saudi Arabia in good shape. I thought he ran great in the Saudi Cup. He fought on. It was a big effort,” said Cox. “We sent him to Payson Park (in Florida) after he went through quarantine in Chicago. We backed off on him a little bit but kept in training.”

Bishops Bay was second in his next start on May 3 in the Grade 3 Westchester Stakes, a race he won a year ago. Though he has raced just twice this year Bishops Bay has already banked $1,535,000.

Overall, he has nine wins and four seconds from 15 career starts with earnings of $2,512,800.

“He ran his race in the Westchester. The winner (Antiquarian) was just better that day,” said Cox.

Cox said he feels the Salvator Mile, at least on paper, should fit Bishops Bay.

“It looks like there is quite a bit of speed in there and it looks like they are more toward the inside of him, so he can break and see what they do,” he said. “Obviously, Flavien Prat is one of the best riders in the country. We’ll leave it up to him.”

Saturday’s 10-race card includes the $150,000, Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf for fillies and mares 3 and up; the $125,000 Pegasus Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth, a race that serves as the final local prep for the Grade 1 NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes, and the $125,000 Monmouth Stakes at nine furlongs on the grass for 3 year olds and up.

The top two finishers in the Eatontown Stakes receive free entry and start fees to the Grade 3 WinStar Matchmaker Stakes on the Haskell undercard; the top two finishers in the Pegasus Stakes receiver free entry and start fees to the $1 million Haskell Stakes, and the top two finishers in the Monmouth Stakes receiver free entry and start fees to the Grade 2 United Nations on the Haskell undercard.

First race post time is 12:50 p.m.