Saratoga

THERE is just the one Grade 1 contest in the US this evening and Saratoga’s Christophe Clement Turf Stakes over a mile and a half (10.06pm). It’s a wide-open contest with all the seven runners priced at less than 10/1 on the morning line.

Three of the seven are British-trained bidding to follow up recent Grade 1 US wins for Title Role and Glacius.

Survie gave George Boughey his first US win two weeks ago with a powerful late kick that overcame a slow pace against fillies in the Grade 2 Glens Falls Stakes. The five-year-old Churchill mare breaks from stall seven. Carrying the Michael Tabor colours, she looks sure to go close again.

Fort George runs for Fitri Hay and Ed Walker and kept good company in March in Meydan before finishing second in the Grade 2 Bowling Green Stakes.

Amo Racing’s Ancient Egypt has done enough to deserve a Grade 1 win this season and was a bit unlucky not to land the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp last month.

He made most of the running and rallied well when challenged to just go down to Maltese Cross.

Charlie Johnston’s Frankel colt had previously just been beaten by Causeway at Royal Ascot in the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes. Many of the US turf races are won by well-judged front-running rides and David Egan is in pole position from stall one.

The US runners bring decent graded from – Grade 2 Bowling Green Stakes winner Ole Crazy Bone who had Fort George a nose behind him with Minaret Station a further half-length behind last month, and the Grade 2 United Nations Stakes winner Program Trading for Chad Brown.

Tawney Port would be an emotional winner for trainer Miguel Clements in the race named after his late father and he was a clear-cut winner of the Grade 2 Bowling Green Stakes last time, but at seven, some of the younger horses might have more speed.

SELECTION: ANCIENT EGYPT Next best: Program Trading

Also this evening, Woodbine has a quality card featuring the famous King’s Plate Stakes (11.12pm) for three-year-olds over 10 furlongs.

Pietro Moran, son of Davy, rides 10/1 shot Dixie Law with the Josie Carroll-trained Luster, the short-priced favourite from stall one under John Velazquez. Both surprisingly are fillies and Luster, a daughter of Knicks Go, beat Dixie Law by five and a half lengths last time out in the Woodbine Oaks.