Modern Games, with a CV that has five top-level victories in four different countries, has plenty to recommend him in the meeting’s curtain-raiser.
Many horses have been hailed as superstars despite achieving less than Charlie Appleby’s colt, who gets on with his job without the need for a fanfare of trumpets.
Having lifted the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf in November 2021 - he was scratched in error by the Del Mar vets before being allowed to take part - Dubawi’s son won the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, the French version of the 2,000 Guineas, at Longchamp the following May.
