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Only five 2-year-old colts were entered in Saturday’s Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket. Only three look like rationally plausible winners. Two of them stand far above the rest in the antepost betting market. And Group 1, $661,000 Dewhurst might in the end prove a one-horse race.
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No one has beaten the versatile Musical Times in three starts in the Britain this year, which is why she will be an odds-on favorite to win her Group 1 debut in Friday’s $661,000 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket.
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Miss Scott, a 3-year-old who has had a rapid rise in Europe’s filly and mare division in recent months, won her Group 1 debut in Sunday’s $564,000 Prix de l’Opera at France's Longchamp Racecourse.
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Heavily favored Daryz did not disappoint Sunday at Longchamp, where he won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for the second year in a row.
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The fabulous filly Blue Bolt took no prisoners in the Sun Chariot Stakes on Saturday at Newmarket, running out an easy 2 3/4-length winner, while running her record this season to 6 for 6.
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The $564,000 Prix de l'Opera is one of five Group 1 Thoroughbred races on the undercard of the Arc de Triomphe, all of which are Win and You're In races for the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland Oct. 30-31.
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In France, where he is based with trainer Francis-Henri Graffard, Daryz has made nine starts and won eight of them. On Sunday at Longchamp in Paris, Daryz will look for yet another French victory and try to become the first colt to win two runnings of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe since Alleged in 1977 and 1978.
How good does Blue Bolt look in the Sun Chariot Stakes? Two days from Saturday’s Group 1 fixture at Newmarket, the fabulous 4-year-old filly was available at miniscule 1-2 with British bookmakers.
Puro Magic, 10th in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar last November, led throughout Sunday’s Grade 1 Sprinters Stakes at six furlongs on turf at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan, her first win in a race at the highest level in her fifth start in a Grade 1 or Group 1 race.
The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Oct. 30 at Keeneland may have its favorite in Sun Goddess, who won her fifth consecutive start, and third straight Group 1 stakes, in Saturday’s $363,800 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse.
