John and Sue Dunlop will be having supper in front of the television tomorrow evening.

Although the Arundel trainer does not have a runner in the eight race $13m plus Breeders' Cup Series at Belmont Park, New York, his son Edward runs two in the one and a quarter mile race on turf for fillies and mares scheduled for 8.45pm.

And, of course, the Dunlops will be keeping their fingers crossed for Sakhee, who he trained as a two and three-year-old in the $4m Classic, the climax of the series at 9.55pm.

Just ten years after Alex Scott, his predecessor at Gainsborough Stables in Newmarket, won the Breeders' Cup Sprint with Sheikh Albadou, Dunlop junior saddles the Irish Oaks winner Lailani and runner-up Mot Juste.

The latter, runner up in the Prix de l'Opera at the Arc meeting, may be improving enough to reverse the order with Lailani who has had a busy season winning each of her seven races. Most recently she won a Group One race at Belmont and although experience of the track is an advantage, there must be a danger that she has gone over the top.

There is more European interest than ever in this year's Breeders' Cup races with dual Derby winner Galileo making the final appearance of a distinguished career in the classic in which he will be opposed by Arc winner Sakhee.

Galileo's rider, Mick Kinane, has rides for the Coolmore outfit of Aidan O'Brien in six of the remaining seven races.

Gadolphin, too, have serious chances with Fantastic Light, who beat Galileo in Ireland recently, in the one-and-a-half mile Turf.

Ex-patriot trainers Michael Dickenson, with two runners, and California-based Neil Drysdale, who was born in Surrey, have both won Breeders' Cup races and once again Saturday's card is the most thrilling day of thoroughbred racing in the world. Coverage is on Sky Sports, beginning at 6.15pm.

Sheikh Mohammed has said that every cent of winnings by the Godolphin horses in tomorrow's Breeders' Cup races will be donated to the fund organised by New York mayor Rudolph Guliani in aid of families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.