THE feature stateside tonight is the Grade 2 Suburban Mile at Belmont which features Godolphin’s Dubai World Cup winner Mystic Guide returning to the track for the first time since that March 27th success.

He charged to a decisive three and three quarter-length success at Meydan from the Japanese runner Chuwa Wizard and Magny Cours.

Some US runners have failed to find their best form when returning from Dubai but his trainer reports all well with the gelding.

“I thought he lost a few pounds coming home as he seemed to visually lighten, but in April when we just gave him light breezes and jogged him, he bounced back. Since then, he hasn’t missed a beat while training at Fair Hill,” his trainer Michael Stidham reported.

The gelding again meets the unbeaten Happy Saver in the Suburban. In last year’s Group 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes, Mystic Guide and the Todd Pletcher-trained Happy Saver finished first and second as the Wertheimer et Frere homebred Happy Saver prevailed by three-quarters-of-a-length over Mystic Guide.

Mystic Guide notched a win in the Grade 3 Razorback Handicap before the Dubai World Cup, while Happy Saver made his only 2021 start while posting a length victory in a May 28th allowance optional claimer at Belmont, making it five wins from five. Pletcher will also send out Moretti who was second in last year’s Suburban, though well behind Tacitus, who was later third in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. The five-year-old was third in the Grade 2 Brooklyn Stakes in June.

The field of six also includes Informative who was a shock 79/1 winner of the Grade 3 Salvatore Mile Stakes in his last start and Max Player was third in both the Runhappy Travers Stakes and Belmont Stakes last season but was unplaced in his two 2021 starts for trainer Steve Asmussen.

A race earlier Juddmonte’s Grade 1-winning filly Viadera lines up in the Grade 2 Perfect Sting Stakes.