SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Friday's Saratoga feature, the Grade II Lake George Stakes on the grass for 3-year-old fillies, offers an excellent French shipper, Mousse Au Chocolat. She's 6-for-7 lifetime in the exacta, with her worst race a 3-length defeat (she ran fourth) to the star French filly Zarkava in a Grade III at Longchamp in April. Mouuse au Chocolat was coming off a five-month layoff there, so she probably wasn't fully cranked, and the undefeated Zarkava is one of the early favorites for Europe's biggest race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Mousse au Chocolat brings along her regular rider, the gifted Christophe Lemaire, and has won three times on soft ground, which is how the Spa's inner turf has been rated. Unfortunately, she's only 2-1 in the morning line, and I fear she'll be bet down because only one opponent, the Bill Mott-trained Zee Zee, looks capable of beating her. Zee Zee went wire to wire on a drenched Churchill Downs course on Kentucky Oaks day, and if she gets loose under Kent Desormeaux, she could be hard to catch.
The play: $25 to win on Mousse au Chocolat, with a $7 exacta of her on top of Zee Zee, and a $3 exacta reversing the two.
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