Keeneland

An excellent renewal. Plenty of potential front-runners are signed on, perhaps including Godolphin's Aomori City in case the gallop is too slow for stablemate NOTABLE SPEECH. Given plenty of pace to run at and a clear passage, the Breeders' Cup Mile winner will be hard to beat. A note of caution comes from him making his comeback, having needed the run on last season's return. Rhetorical and Deterministic are his most solid foes, though Zulu Kingdom has a fine record and Tiz Dashing impressed in lesser company on his reappearance. One Stripe (second preference) is the interesting one at likely odds, having shaped with promise when second in the Pegasus Turf at Gulfstream. [James Willoughby]