Having recovered from a hamstring injury, Kemar Bailey-Cole should be one of the stars at the Racers Grand Prix on June 9, Glen Mills expects.

The 26-year-old Bailey-Cole, who has recovered from an injury that kept him out of action from last June, will line up against 2011 World champion Yohan Blake, the improving Zharnel Hughes and Julian Forte, to name a few.

“He is down to run. He should be running in a couple warm-up races towards the end of the month,” said Mills.

Bailey-Cole, the 2014 Commonwealth Games 100m champion, was injured at Jamaica Senior Championship last year, but is said to be looking good in training.

“He always runs well, as they say, fresh footed. He has that ability to just come off the shelf and perform,” added Mills.

The lanky sprinter has a personal best of 9.92 for the 100m and his seen in some quarters, for a while, as the next big thing behind the now retired Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. But niggling injuries have set him back.

Meanwhile, with just eight lanes up for grabs on the track, Mills told the Jamaica Observer that has been very difficult to put the start list together because of the number of entries.

“It was very difficult because it is only eight lanes and we have been getting tremendous requests for participation. The races are oversubscribed in a big way and we will put out the provisional list by weekend and you will see that’s it is quite a large contingent to be confirmed,” said Mills.

“This year what we try to do is to highlight as many areas as possible. We know Jamaica is predominantly a sprint country, but the culture is beginning to widen.

“The shot put women, where we have made tremendous strides, is one of our feature events. We retained the discus, the women’s triple jump and the high jump as we try to put field events in a different spotlight in a way that has never been seen in Jamaica,” he explained.

Jamaica’s freshly minted shot put Commonwealth Games champion Danniel Thomas Dodd will be in action against American Olympic champion Michelle Carter.

Thomas-Dodd took the Jamaican record to 19.36m and she will have for company three other women over the 19.0-metre mark.

The men’s 110m hurdles, Mills believes, will be one of the events of the meet with Jamaica’s Ronald Levy and Hansle Parchment matching strides with American world record holder Aries Merritt.

“We still have the other events like the men’s 110 hurdles, which I think will be a real humdinger. Commonwealth Games champion up against the world record holder, the world indoor silver medallist and of course our Hansle Parchment, who has been blazing the trail for us at the Olympic and World Championship level in what should be mouthwatering competition,” said Mills.

“The women’s 800m Goule (Natoya) made a breakthrough in the Commonwealth Games and she is up against four very good Americans and it will really be a very exciting race. We are looking for a very exciting meet,” he reiterated.