CHARLIE Appleby provides the European interest stateside this evening and he has three runners spread over Belmont at the Big A and Woodbine in Canada.

The Rioch Woodbine Mile (10.42pm) looks to provide Master Of The Seas with a good opportunity to gain a Grade 1 win. The last time out Ascot Group 2 Fred Cowley MBE Memorial Summer Mile Stakes winner has five rivals, three of which are trained by Mark Casse. Shirl’s Speight has not won since the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes at Keeneland last April but has been set some audacious targets and looks the danger.

Fourth in this race last year, he was second to Modern Games in the Breeders’ Cup Mile before a trip to Japan for a Group 1 and then to Meydan where he was fourth in the Dubai Turf. Fourth in his prep for this back at Woodbine, he looks set to make a bold bid

Appleby runs Dazzling Star in the Grade 1 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes for juvenile fillies – up against it in a double figure field. But Appleby’s record, winning with his last seven starters at Woodbine—all in Grade 1 company for Godolphin - makes her the favourite

The Blue Point filly won her Newmarket maiden and was then fourth in the Princess Margaret Stakes to Sacred Angel.

The other Grade 1 is the Summer Stakes, with some fillies in here also entered in the Natalma.

My Boy Prince, a son of Cairo Prince who is coming off two consecutive victories against Canadian-breds, is the 3/1 morning-line favourite after capturing the Simcoe Stakes on Woodbine’s synthetic surface by 14 lengths last month.

Spencer in New York

At Belmont At The Big A, the Fasig-Tipton Jockey Club Oaks (10.21pm) is a Grade 3 over 11 furlongs with prize money of $350,000 and Jamie Spencer is called upon again to partner Appleby’s Eternal Hope.

Winner of the Lingfield Oaks Trial, she was seventh behind Soul Sister in the Epsom Oaks and reappeared with a third place behind Jannah Rose in the Group 2 Sumbe Prix Alec Head on August 20th.

The form of that race was boosted by the second Lumiere Rose’s win at the Curragh last Sunday. The Teofilo filly might be good enough to see off and the former Bolger-trained Speirling Beag. The daughter of Mastercraftsman was sixth in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes and most recently second by a nose in the Searching Stakes at Laurel Park for trainer Graham Motion.

Last Call, trained by Kevin Attard, is an English Channel filly who won the Grade 1 Natalma last year at Woodbine and is next in the betting. She is set to be ridden by Irad Ortiz.