Ryan Moore on Greenfinch and Diego Velazquez as he heads to the United States for two rides at Saratoga

Ryan Moore has left Glorious Goodwood for the United States. He will race twice in Saratoga in the coming days.

Elsewhere, Rachael Blackmore will take part in the fifth day of the 2024 Galway Festival.

Here are the two Betfair ambassadors visit their respective rides in Saratoga and Galway.

Ryan Moore

22:10 Saratoga, Friday

Greenfinch

She will clearly have to improve to win this one – Guineas seventh Cinderella’s Dream won the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks in style last time out – but she comes here on the back of a career best after winning a Listed race at Killarney in very good style, so let’s see what she can do up the grade. She has a Grade 1 pedigree and hopefully she can step up again in this Grade 2.

20:21 Saratoga, Saturday

Diego Velazquez

This looks like a good chance for him. He was a good 2-year-old but he clearly set a career best when he jumped up for me, stepped back in distance, over 1m1f at Leopardstown last month. If he can repeat that form here he has every chance.

Rachel Zwartmore

Galway Friday

5.00 – Lord Erskine

I’m riding Lord Erskine in the opening race on Friday, the Galway Tribes Handicap Hurdle.

He is now 11 years old, but on Monday he proved again that he is still enthusiastic about racing when he persevered to finish fourth in the amateur riders’ Connacht Hotel Handicap. That was a really good run.

He won a big two-mile handicap hurdle at Leopardstown in February at the Dublin Racing Festival on a mark of 120. He is 7lb higher in the handicap here but he should be up to the task. He rarely runs a bad race and I look forward to riding him again.