Nine group or graded stakes winners, including New Bay, the winner of the Group 1 French Derby in 2015 and Mondialiste, the winner of the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile last September, comprise the field for Tuesday’s $280,000 Prix d’Ispahan at Chantilly Racecourse in France.

The Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan is run at 1 1/8 miles on turf and is the second Group 1 race of the year for older horses in France. Dariyan and Silverware, who are part of the Prix d’Ispahan field, were first and second in the Group 1 Prix Ganay at Saint-Cloud on May 1.

Jet Setting, a filly purchased for approximately $17,400 last fall, won Sunday’s $336,300 Irish 1000 Guineas over 4-11 favorite Minding at The Curragh. The win gave trainer Adrian Keatley his first Group 1 win in his third year of training.

Ridden by Shane Foley, Jet Setting (9-1) finished a head in front of Minding, who struck her head on the starting gate before the start, trainer Aidan O’Brien said. Jet Setting was always near the front in the one-mile turf race and held off a sustained threat from Minding, the winner of the English 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 1.

Awtaad rolled down the outside of a soggy Curragh course and won the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas by 2 1/2 lengths on Saturday.

English 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold finished second after being trapped inside for part of the final quarter-mile, but Awtaad always seemed to be traveling better after the tempo quickened and was a worthy winner for jockey Chris Hayes, trainer Kevin Prendergast, and owner Hamdan al Maktoum. Blue de Vega was third, well clear of fourth-place Bravery, the first home but easily the longest price among four Aidan O’Brien-trained entrants.

Minding, the winner of the English 1000 Guineas earlier this month, and Found, who won the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland last October, will be favored to win Group 1 races at The Curragh in Ireland on Sunday.

Minding will be odds-on to win the $336,300 Irish 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf. Minding has won her last three starts, all in Group 1 races, including the Moyglare Stud Stakes in Ireland last September and the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket in England last October.

Trainer Aidan O’Brien will have four chances to win his 11th Irish 2000 Guineas on Saturday at The Curragh, but the race favorite, Galileo Gold, comes from the yard of trainer Hugo Palmer.

The Gurkha is growing up rapidly for trainer Aidan O’Brien.

A month after beating maidens in Ireland, The Gurhka won his first stakes in Sunday’s Group 1 French 2000 Guineas at Deauville, France. The victory may lead to a start in the English Derby at Epsom Downs for The Gurkha, a colt by Galileo.

Belardo went winless in seven starts in 2015 but won for the second time in three races this year while capturing his first Group 1 since the Dewhurst in October 2014 when he beat Euro Charline by one length in the J.T. Lockinge Stakes on Saturday at Newbury in England.

Racing from well behind the pacesetters in the straight-course mile, Belardo surged down the middle of the course in the last-quarter mile, running past Euro Charline in the final furlong to win going away. Andrea Atzeni rode the winner for trainer Roger Varian and owners Godolphin and Prince Faisal.

The French 3-year-olds Come Alive and Zarak are on the exact same career path.

They won maiden races in their first starts on the same program at Deauville on Oct. 22, 2015, and returned this year to win allowance races on the same day at Maisons-Laffitte on April 19. Sunday, they will make their first starts in stakes as leading contenders in the French 1000 and 2000 Guineas at Deauville.

Nyquist, on the strength of his Kentucky Derby win, is tied for the third highest-rated Thoroughbred in the world in the latest edition of the World Thoroughbred Rankings released Thursday.

Nyquist’s Derby was rated 124, trailing only the 126 given California Chrome’s Dubai World Cup and Winx’s Doncaster Mile win in Australia. American Pharoah got the same 124 rating winning the 2015 Kentucky Derby.

The World Thoroughbred Rankings are compiled several times annually by a panel assembled by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.

Solow has been taken out of consideration for the Queen Anne Stakes June 14 at Royal Ascot, his connections announced this week.

Solow won the Queen Anne last year as part of a brilliant undefeated championship campaign, but after winning his first start of 2016, Solow suffered an injury a week before a trip to Dubai for the Dubai Turf, causing him to miss that race.