All eyes will be on the American pair of Drafted and Big City Dreamin here, with the former representing Godolphin along with the home-trained Top Score and Kananee. Drafted got his career off to the ideal start when winning a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight on the dirt at Keeneland Apr. 27 and trainer Eoin Harty is hoping to do a “Wesley Ward” here. “Drafted is fine and in great shape. He is fit, healthy and happy,” he commented. “We are used to fast ground, in America as if it is soft then the races are taken off the turf. He has worked on the turf at Arlington Park and that would have been considered firm. His sire was a good turf horse who also won on dirt and synthetics. I would be guessing about how Drafted will handle the conditions on Tuesday, but he is a fast American two-year-old and his biggest asset is his speed so we will be trying to utilise it.”
Ward is present with yet another filly in Big City Dreamin (lot 45), who scored over the same track and trip as her compatriot Apr. 8 and is also likely to be up with the pace for new owner Sol Kumin, after selling for £200,000 at the Goffs London Sale Monday evening. Mister Trader and Yulong Baobei offer a strong Irish representation alongside the Ballydoyle challenger Pedestal, with the former second to the G2 Coventry S. protagonist Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) in the Listed Marble Hill S. at The Curragh May 21.
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