Superstar Songbird set for million-dollar test in Cotillion
Nyquist and Exaggerator clash yet again in Penn Derby
It cannot be too often a $1 million-plus event featuring a pair of Classic winners is asked to take second stage but that could well be the case at Parx in Philadelphia on Saturday when the brilliant Songbird faces potentially the stiffest test of her flawless career.
On its own, a Pennsylvania Derby featuring the latest head-to-head between Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist and his Preakness conqueror Exaggerator would be more than enough to top the bill.
Here, though, it may have to play second fiddle as Songbird – widely considered the best three-year-old of either sex in North America - bids to extend her unbeaten sequence to 11 in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes (9.55pm BST, live on At The Races), in which she will have to be on her mettle to beat a field also featuring Kentucky Oaks one-two Cathryn Sophia and Land Over Sea plus Carina Mia.
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