Top Pick: #6 Tour Player (4-1) - Tour Player has won three of the last five races at this distance. Having six weeks off should work well, since winning the inaugural Royal New Kent Stakes. Tour Player and Flavien Prat stalked the leaders before making a move and finishing 2½ lengths ahead of Dragoon Guard. Prat will be riding again.
2nd Pick: #4 Be You (7-2) - This 5-year-old chestnut gelding has been a model of consistency in speed numbers, with three wins in the last five races, along with finishes of second and third. The son of Curlin won the Toboggan Stakes in February, besting favored Doc Sullivan by 1 3/4 lengths, before finishing third the last time out at the Carter Stakes, hanging close to 1-1 Book'em Danno and 4-1 Point Dunne.
3rd Pick: #2 Dragoon Guard (3-1) - Good speed, but can't finish, off two straight second-place showings. Dragoon Guard was the 6-5 favorite at the Cherokee Mile but watched Moonlight come from behind to win on a fast track. A carbon copy followed the last time out, finishing second at the Royal New Kent Stakes.