Maybe it’s the Californian who can win the Grade 1, $1 million Shadwell Turf Mile on Saturday at Keeneland. Bowies Hero got stuck behind a wall of horses Aug. 18 in the Del Mar Mile, jockey Flavien Prat sitting helplessly with nowhere to go the last furlong. “Flavien jumped off and first thing he said to me was, ‘Sorry, I followed the wrong horse and should’ve just gone outside,’ ” said Southern California-based trainer Phil D’Amato, who won two grass races at Keeneland during the spring meet. It was a Californian who won the 2018 Shadwell, Next Shares, and he’s in Saturday’s race, too. So is the 2017 Shadwell winner, Suedois, and hey, he’s not without a shot. Don’t care for England-based Suedois? Maybe it’s one of the other Europeans – Van Beethoven, or Vintager, or Robin of Navan. Not your cup of tea? How about the cutback horse, Bandua, who set the pace and finished third in the 1 1/4-mile Arlington Million. Lone speed? Got one of those, too, Real Story, who breaks from post 14 and figures to go straight to the front. Also present: A stretch-out sprinter, Diamond Oops, who will be scratched from the six-furlong Phoenix Stakes on Friday to race in the Shadwell, a two-turn grass mile on a drought-baked turf course. There’s Chad’s horse, Valid Point, the 3-year-old who has won all three of his starts and won them easily. He comes off a victory in the Grade 1 Secretariat over one mile at Arlington and comes into Keeneland bathed in the mystique of North America’s leading turf trainer, Chad Brown. And there’s the trip horse, Admission Office, who could be 3 for 3 during his 2019 campaign with better racing luck. “I could make a case for him winning all of them,” trainer Brian Lynch said. Divisidero is a grizzled veteran. The horse is 7, with 28 starts behind him, but still churns out highly competitive turf miles. Or maybe you would like to board the Casse train. Casse, as in trainer Mark, has yet to win the Shadwell but brings two into Saturday’s tilt, March to the Arch and the sneakily competitive First Premio. That’s 14 of them, and if that’s not enough there are two also-eligibles, Get Western and Emaraaty, waiting to in the wings. Speaking of enough – plain racing fans and dedicated gamblers will be walking straight into a horn of plenty Saturday at Keeneland, where the temperature is forecast to hit the high 80s under sunny skies. The Shadwell, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In race offering automatic fees-paid entry in the BC Mile, is the 10th of 11 races and the last of three Grade 1 stakes following the Breeders’ Futurity, a two-turn dirt route for 2-year-olds, and the First Lady, a one-mile grass race for females. Tap It to Win, Ajaaweed, and Gouverner Morris form the Futurity’s backbone, while the wonderful Rushing Fall tries to make it five wins from five Keeneland starts as the First Lady favorite. Page a little farther back in your past performances and find the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America for older female dirt sprinters and a cracking edition of the Grade 2 Woodford, matching Imprimis and Leinster, Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint hopefuls both. Two-year-olds and allowance horses fill out the remainder of a card that kicks off at 1:05 p.m. Eastern, but no race on the day will twist the deep contours of your brain like the Shadwell. Next Shares won this race a year ago by more than three lengths at odds of 23-1 and could be a similar price Saturday, owing both to his iffy form and the field’s composition. The morning-line favorite, at a tepid 5-1, is Valid Point, a scopey son of Scat Daddy with a maiden win in February, an allowance win in June, and a one-length victory over fellow Shadwell runner Van Beethoven in the age-restricted Secretariat. Valid Point has a big kick and a nice long stride, and video of morning work suggests a real tiger, but that’s a flimsy résumé to make favored in a race of this quality. Bowies Hero ships to Kentucky while his D’Amato-trained stablemate Prince Earl, who won the Del Mar Mile, stays home for the City of Hope Mile at Santa Anita. D’Amato said Bowies Hero during a flat 2018 campaign just was a somewhat worn-out horse merely going through the motions who came back this year from a break with the verve he showed winning at the Grade 1 level in 2017. Bowies Hero has been dropping well off the pace in his recent starts, but D’Amato said the horse would be receptive to Prat putting him into the race earlier. “He’s just a very versatile horse. He’s showed me he handles different kinds of grass courses.” Lynch, too, believes Admission Office can stick closer to the pace than in his last two races, tough losses that could’ve been wins had better early position been established. Admission Office hasn’t raced since June owing to a minor ankle injury but enters fit. “We’ve got the right amount of work into him,” Lynch said. Bandua is listed as the 6-1 second choice on the line, but that price seems short. Bandua’s strength is strong galloping, and he’s liable to be outkicked by handier rivals. Suedois at age 8 isn’t the same horse who won this race two seasons ago, and a victory by any of the other Euros would require a career peak. But then that’s the way this Shadwell looks – an infinite array of questions to be answered out on the Keeneland sod.