He heads out to America on Saturday to ride Japan. Check out Betfair ambassador Ryan Moore's thoughts ahead of the Saratoga card.
Saturday Saratoga
22.25pm Japan
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He kicked off the season with a good win in the Ormonde where he beat Trueshan and Sonnyboyliston. That form has been well franked since with Trueshan winning the G1 Goodwood Cup and Sonnyboyliston landing the Ebor last Saturday.
The ground went for him in the Coronation Cup and again in the Hardwicke when it came up soft. He just doesn’t operate to the same level when it’s soft. With this race in mind, we dropped him back to 1m1f in the G3 ‘Meld Stakes’ at Leopardstown last day.
He did it well there and I thought he was always holding off the late closers. That will have sharpened him up. Although only the 7 runners here it’s a very competitive race and the Chad Brown trained, Tribhuvan, looked smart when making all to land the G1 ‘United Nations Stakes’ in Monmouth Park last month.
Cross Border, who won the ‘Bowling Green’ here on his last run and last year’s winner, Channel Maker, who beat Cross Boarder by 5 3/4L that day, also must be respected. Hopefully the ground has dried out following some recent bad weather in the area and if it has, then my guy will give a good very account of himself.
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