Samitar (orange hat) scooted through between horses to just miss in her U.S. debut (Harold Roth/Horsephotos.com)

Samitar didn't have the easiest of trips when falling a neck short in the Grade 2 Lake George in her U.S. debut. The Irish classic winner will have an opportunity to make amends when she faces six other three-year-old fillies in Saturday's Grade 1, $300,000 Garden City over nine furlongs on the inner turf at Belmont Park.

Owned by Martin Schwartz, Samitar enjoyed a productive European campaign of 10 starts prior to her importation. Winner of the Group 3 Albany at Royal Ascot and lucrative Tattersalls Millions Trophy at two, the British-bred registered a 12-1 upset of the Group 1 Irish One Thousand Guineas earlier this year in her penultimate start overseas.

Samitar debuted stateside in the July 25 Lake George at Saratoga over 1 1/16 miles. Bumped early, the daughter of Rock of Gibraltar was nine lengths off the pace downside, cut her margin of deficit down to a neck turning for home after racing wide on the turn, and continued gamely to finish third in a four-way photo.

A full-fledged member of the Chad Brown stable since that defeat, Samitar will race with Lasix for the first time in the Garden City. Ramon Dominguez returns to the saddle.

Tannery makes her U.S. debut in the Garden City for trainer Alan Goldberg. The Dylan Thomas filly has shown a preference for soft ground this season, winning three of her past four in Ireland. Her first stakes win, in the May 6 Victor McCalmont at Gowran Park, was later followed by a score in the Martin Molony at Limerick against males, and the Group 3 Kilboy Estates at the Curragh by a half-length in her most recent start July 22.

Silver Screamer will attempt to get back to her winning ways in the Noble Damsel (Ryan Denver/Equi-Photo)

Chad Brown will saddle two fillies one race earlier in the Grade 3, $150,000 Noble Damsel, a one-mile Widener turf test for older fillies and mares.

Dealbata, whom Martin Schwartz had imported from France earlier this year, already has two U.S. starts under her belt having won the Mohegan Sun during the Belmont spring meet and running a fast-closing second in the De La Rose at Saratoga August 4. New to the American scene is Kya One, a Group 3-placed stakes winner in France.

Former European mainstay Julie's Love should attract plenty of support after posting a three-for-four mark in the U.S. thus far. Her recent half-length tally in the De La Rose was preceded by her only domestic loss to date, a solid third in the Grade 3 Dr. James Penny Memorial behind the New York-bred aces Gitchee Goomie and Hessonite.

Christophe Clement will saddle two in the Noble Damsel: Grade 3-placed Federation, who captured a a third-level allowance at Saratoga last time, and Naples Bay, who passed her second allowance condition at Monmouth Park in her latest.