Earthlight remained unbeaten in four starts, and earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 1, with a neck victory in Sunday’s Group 1 Prix Morny for 2-year-olds at six furlongs on turf at Deauville, France.
Sunday’s Group 1 Prix Morny for 2-year-olds at six furlongs on turf at Deauville, France, will be the first-ever meeting between the colts A’Ali and Earthlight who approach the race in outstanding form after major stakes wins on the same course in the last month.
Romanised won his first Group 1 in nearly 15 months in Sunday’s $1.12 million Prix Jacques le Marois at a mile at Deauville, France, a victory that may lead to a start in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.
Watch Me, the 20-1 surprise winner of the Group 1 Coronation Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Royal Ascot in June, will face older males for the first time in Sunday’s Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois at a mile at Deauville, France.
Siskin repelled a sustained challenge from Monarch of Egypt to win Friday’s Group 1 Phoenix Stakes for 2-year-olds at the Curragh in Ireland and remain undefeated after four starts.
Saudi Arabia will host a $20 million race in February next year on the dirt course at King Abdul Aziz racetrack in Riyadh, the country’s racing authority and members of the ruling family announced on Wednesday, instantly making the country a player on the international racing stage with the promise of the richest purse in the world.
Siskin, who has won all three of his starts by at least two lengths, will be favored against four rivals in Friday’s Group 1 Phoenix Stakes for 2-year-old colts and fillies at the Curragh Racecourse in Ireland.
Too Darn Hot, the champion 2-year-old male of Europe in 2018 and the winner of consecutive Group 1 races in July, has been retired after recently undergoing surgery for a hairline fracture in the cannon bone of a rear leg.
Advertise gave jockey Frankie Dettori his third Group 1 win in the last week in Sunday’s $422,066 Prix Maurice de Gheest at 6 1/2 furlongs on turf at Deauville Racecourse in France.
Advertise, winner of Group 1 races in England and Ireland in the last year, will be favored to win his first excursion to France in Sunday’s Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at 6 1/2 furlongs on turf at Deauville Racecourse.
