Another Argentina bred, trainer Bill Mott’s Take the Stand (15-1), will make his first start since winning the Grade II Muniz Memorial Handicap in March.

Grade I Belmont Derby winner Deauville (6-1) faces older horses for the first time. The three-year-old, trained by Aidan O’Brien, is the youngest starter and has the 13th post. O’Brien seeks to tie Ron McAnally and Charlie Whittingham for the most Million wins (3).

Trainer Mike Maker’s Greengrassofyoming (30-1), winner of the Stars and Stripes by a nose, has won 8 of 36 starts. The 6-year-old son of Quest was claimed by Maker for $62,500 two starts ago.

Grade III Singspiel Stakes winner Danish Dynaformer (30-1) is trained by Roger Attfield and has won 5 of 14 starts while Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott’s 4-year-old Dubai Sky (30-1) has won 4 of 6 career starts.

English-bred Decorated Knight (10-1) makes his U.S. debut after winning 4 of 10 starts. Pumpkin Rumble (30-1), a 4-year-old trained by Gary Scherer, has won 4 of 19 starts, all in this country.

At seven years old, The Pizza Man is the oldest starter in the race. The Stars and Stripes on July 9 was the only time he finished out of the money at Arlington. He had a wide trip and finished fourth by less than a length.

Before that, The Pizza Man was fourth in the Grade II Wise Dan at Churchill and fifth in a Grade I race at Gulfstream in February. A late-charging Pizza Man won his last race on Nov. 26, 2015 at Del Mar in the Grade II Hollywood Turf Cup under jockey Mike Smith. Smith will be riding The Pizza Man for the first time since that race.

Brueggemann has been training horses since the late 1980s. He worked for 30 years as a mechanic for a Chrysler dealership in Belleville, about seven miles from his hometown of Freeburg in southern Illinois.

“I always liked horses and went to the races with friends at Cahokia Downs and Fairmount Park (downstate race tracks),” Brueggemann said. “My hip started bothering me from working as a mechanic and I had some surgeries. My doctors said I had to get off the concrete, so I went from concrete to dirt and became a trainer.”

Now he is trying to be the first trainer to win back-to-back Millions.

“You never know when of the good ones are going to come along,” Brueggemann said. “Right now is the best he has been all year. I don’t worry too much about the other horses in the race. Mine has been running great. I let the others worry about theirs and I worry about mine.”