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Unbeaten Songbird faces stiff competition at Saratoga

Songbird:  hot favourite to make it a perfect 12 from 12
Songbird: ninth Grade 1 success in Delaware HandicapCredit: Getty Images/Rob Carr

Saratoga: Coaching Club American Oaks (Grade 1) | 1m1f, dirt, 3yo fillies | 11.18pm BST (live on ATR)

After illness derailed her Kentucky Oaks ambitions, brilliant three-year-old Songbird gets back into Grade 1 action with a visit to Saratoga for the CCA Oaks, where she will bid to extend her unbeaten record to nine.

Songbird's two-year-old season ended in a near-six-length victory at the Breeders' Cup, and she added another Grade 1 success, her fourth altogether, to her CV in the Santa Anita Oaks in April before a fever ruled her out of the Kentucky Oaks.

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