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Notable Speech rebounded from a disappointing performance at Royal Ascot in June, and the absence of a leading rival, to win his second Group 1 race of 2024 in Wednesday’s $1.28 million Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in Britain.
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Six passed the final entry stage for the Sussex Stakes, run around one gentle bend on a quirky Goodwood course that's not for every horse, and all the early-week antepost money was coming in on the trio of 3-year-olds, principally Rosallion, priced at about even money Monday.
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Opera Singer has never been tried at 1 1/4 miles, never faced older fillies and mares, and has not won since October. Despite all that, Opera Singer is an early favorite to win Thursday's Group 1 Nassau Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles at Goodwood Racecourse.
Mqse De Sevigne won the Prix Rothschild at Deauville Racecourse on Sunday for the second year in a row, and this time it wasn’t that close.
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Goliath didn’t merely pull a 25-1 upset Saturday at Ascot in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, he crushed his eight rivals, winning, eased up, by 2 1/4 lengths over the filly Bluestocking.
Mqse de Sevigne won her last two races, including the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan over males going 1 1/8 miles, and last August captured the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet going 1 1/4 miles. Even so, a Sunday cut-back to one mile in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild on Sunday at Deauville Racecourse won’t keep the mare from winning her third race in a row and fourth from her last five starts.
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Auguste Rodin holds early favoritism for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday at Ascot – and could hardly run worse than he did as the race favorite a year ago.
In the hours before Saturday’s Group 1 Irish Oaks at the Curragh in Ireland, the fixed odds on the British shipper You Got To Me fell steadily with European bookmakers. You Got To Me, who paid $20.40 in American pools, closed from the middle of the field of 14 to reach the front in the final sixteenth, avoiding the trouble that plagued second-place finisher Content.
In the last 45 days, War Eternal has won two of his last three starts in Australia, leading to his first appearance in a stakes since October 2022 in the $134,000 Winter Challenge Stakes at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney on Friday evening.
She may only be the winner of a maiden race, but Lope de Lilas won in such an appealing manner in May that she is rated among the contenders for Saturday’s Group 1 Irish Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/2 miles at the Curragh in Ireland.
