TWO outstanding females take centre stage in the Oaklawn Park feature the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap tonight (12.09am) with a mouth- watering clash between Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Monomoy Girl and Preakness winner Swiss Skydiver. It promises to be right up there with some of the finest editions of the race though unfortunately it is not on television here.

Monomoy Girl won five Grade 1s in 2018, including the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, was crowned Champion Three-Year Old Female. She missed the 2019 season recovering from colic surgery but returned as good as ever in 2020, going unbeaten in four starts and repeating her win in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, again being awarded the Champion Older Female Award for 2020. She went through the sales ring for $9.5 million after her Breeders’ Cup win.