Champion jockey Michael Kinane will criss-cross the Atlantic this weekend trying to bring home the rich pickings of a Group One double.
Tonight at Arlington, Chicago he rides the Prix Lupin winner Ciro, who has his last race for Aidan O'Brien in the Secretariat Stakes before continuing his career in the United States.
Also in the Secretariat is Dermot Weld's Pine Dance (Eddie Ahern) who won the Grade Two American Derby over the course three weeks ago.
Both Irish horses are quoted at 5 to 1 joint second favourites by local bookmakers behind 4 to 5 favourite King Cugat (Jerry Bailey) who won the Arlington Classic last month.
Kinane and O'Brien also run the filly Alluring in the Beverley D Stakes, but she is regarded as a 20 to 1 outsider. Other European interest in that race centres on the Mick Ryan-trained Diamond White (Frankie Dettori) and Criquette Head's America (Olivier Delouze.)
There is no direct interest in the Chicago feature, the Arlington Million, where the Godolphin runner Slickly and Philip Mitchell's Running Stag fly the European flag.
On Sunday Kinane and O'Brien will be in Deauville trying to win their third Prix Morny in-a-row with Pyrus.
The Mr Prospector colt again faces the John Gosden-trained Endless Summer (Olivier Peslier) who beat him by a length in Goodwood's Richmond Stakes.
