The race is the same, only the setting is different.
Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby will try to pull off an encore May 4 in the Fort Marcy Stakes (G2T), sending out international traveler Ottoman Fleet in search of back-to-back wins in the $200,000 turf stakes for older horses.
The only change is that after the gelded son of Sea The Stars captured the Fort Marcy at Belmont Park a year ago in his United States debut, the mile and an eighth turf stakes will be contested Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack while Belmont is being rebuilt.
Third in the Manhattan Stakes (G1T) after the Fort Marcy, Ottoman Fleet returned to Europe and did not race again until December, when he made the first of three losing efforts at Meydan Racecourse.
Returned to Great Britain, he won the April 17 Earl of Sefton Stakes (G3) at Newmarket in his last start.
The field of eight also includes 2023 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes (G1T) winner Atone, who is winless in nine starts since then.
Randomized heads Ruffian Stakes
2023 Alabama Stakes (G1) winner Randomized will kick off her 4-year-old season later in the card, heading a field of seven in the $200,000 Ruffian Stakes (G2) for older fillies and mares.
Klaravich Stables' daughter of Nyquist followed up her Alabama win for trainer Chad Brown by taking the Beldame Stakes (G2) and then finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) in her most recent start.
Brown will also send out grade 3 winner Shidabhuti, a Practical Joke filly owned by Peter Brant.
