KEENELAND’S meeting on Saturday featured three Grade 1s and three Grade 2s. Pick of the winners, for me, was Art Collector in the nine-furlong Blue Grass Stakes, a 118 performance that puts him right in the front rank for the Kentucky Derby on September 5th.

It was not just that he saw off 112-rated filly Swiss Skydiver by three and a half lengths but the way in which he did it, attending an honest pace and staying on strongly after briefly looking as if he might get the worse of the argument. The “Durr-bee” will be at an extra furlong, which could be perfect, and Art Collector is now carrying a bit of my money at 12/1.