The eagerly awaited meeting of star milers Notable Speech and Charyn is set to take place at ParisLongchamp Sept. 8 after both featured among seven declared runners for the €400,000 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (G1).
Both colts will go in search of their third group 1 win of the season at the trip, and will be joined by last season's Vincent O'Brien National Stakes (G1) winner Henry Longfellow.
Charyn made his breakthrough in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot and then readily dealt with his first taste of the classic generation when scooting three lengths clear of French Guineas (G1) winner Metropolitan in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) last month.
As for both of those victories, Silvestre de Sousa retains the ride aboard Charyn, who will be joined by a powerful second string for owner Nurlan Bizakov in the shape of Ramadan from the Christopher Head yard.
Notable Speech bounced back from an inexplicable seventh in the St James's Palace Stakes (G1) to display a searing turn of foot in the Sussex Stakes (G1), a race in which Henry Longfellow could only finish fourth after cutting out the running.
Godolphin also fields Tribalist, a multiple winner at group 2 and group 3 level, while Kelina will bid to add to her group 1 tally at the same venue where she accounted for Kinross in last season's Prix de la Foret (G1) over seven furlongs.
Caramelito beat Docklands at listed level over course and distance in May and continued his upward progress with a group 3 success in the Prix Messidor (G3) at Chantilly in July.
The going on Longchamp's Grande Piste was officially 3.7 (souple) on the penetrometer the morning of Sept. 6, which approximates to good to soft on the GoingStick, while there is a risk of a further 2-4 millimeters of rain Saturday.
Conditions eased appreciably Sept. 5 when the track took 25 millimeters of rain.
