Mozart to dominate at York Class should tell at York next week. Several of the season`s top performers are heading north for the three-day Ebor meeting which gets under way on Tuesday, and each will be very hard to beat. Chief among them is Mozart, who looked the best sprinter seen for several years when running away with the six-furlong Darley July Cup at Newmarket last month. The Irish colt burst out of the stalls that day and never seemed likely to surrender his early lead, eventually passing the post three and a half lengths clear of runner-up Cassandra Go. That was a step up on the form he had shown in winning the Jersey Stakes over seven furlongs at Royal Ascot. And he has so much speed that it would be no surprise to see his doing even better over just five furlongs in Thursday`s Victor Chandler Nunthorpe Stakes. As trainer Aidan O`Brien said after Newmarket: 'He has unbelievable pace and he is a very difficult horse to beat. You have to follow him to beat him andif you follow him he will probably kill you! 'He finds it very easy to go very fast and he has great natural speed. 'He has serious class and serious pace - we haven`t got anything that can work with him at home. He is a very, very fast horse. The five furlongs would be no problem - he would love it as speed is his big thing.' O`Brien completed the July Cup/Nunthorpe double with Stravinsky two years ago and looks poised to repeat the feat. Meshaheer preceded Mozart into the winner`s enclosure by 24 hours at Newmarket last month and he may well do the same at York. For he promises to be a mighty hard nut to crack in Wednesday`s Scottish Equitable Gimcrack Stakes after his emphatic win in the July Stakes at Headquarters. Meshaheer showed a good turn of speed to see off Scottish River by a length and a quarter that day and looks to be among the cream in trainer David Loder`s juvenile academy. Storming Home may be a less obvious top-notcher but he is one to keep a close eye on nonetheless in Tuesday`s Great Voltigeur Stakes. For he ran a storming race to finish fourth in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot and is clearly one of the very best mile-and-a-half three-year-olds around. To be beaten just three lengths by Galileo - after none too clear a run either - was a great effort and he should see off St Leger candidates such as Beekeeper and Xtra. His contemporary Grandera may be the best bet in a tricky race for the Juddmonte International Stakes on the same afternoon. He has only half a length to make up on Coral Eurobet Eclipse Stakes winner Medicean and York will suit him better than Sandown, where he was caught close home up the stamina-sapping hill. And Goodwood Cup second Double Honour can complete a good day for the three-year-olds by claiming the Weatherbys Insurance Lonsdale Stakes for Mark Johnston. Others to look out for over the weekinclude Irish Oaks runner-up Mot Juste in Wednesday`s Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks and Isadora, who can continue Luca Cumani`s domination of the EBF Galtres Stakes on Thursday.
