The Group 1 Lockinge Stakes on Saturday at Newbury in England did not draw American Horse of the Year California Chrome, who when he first arrived in England after the Dubai World Cup, was announced as a probable runner, but he may be one of the few high-quality older horses in England not entered in the race.
Clarity Sky rebounded from a fifth-place finish in the Japanese 2000 Guineas in April to win Sunday’s $1,600,400 NHK Mile for 3-year-olds at Tokyo Racecourse over the previously unbeaten Kentucky-bred filly Albiano.
Make Believe led from start to finish and gave trainer Andre Fabre his first win since 2010 in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, the French 2000 Guineas, on Sunday at Longchamp.
Highland Reel, trained by Aidan O’Brien, is the tepid antepost favorite for Sunday's one-mile French 2000 Guineas at Longchamp, which will be contested on good-to-soft going, but O’Brien hasn’t won a French 2000 Guineas since 2007, and Highland Reel, unraced since winning a Group 2 last July at Goodwood, probably has no definitive edge on several other lightly raced colts in the Guineas.
Gold Ship, a fixture in top-class races in Japan for the last three years, won the sixth Grade 1 race of his career in Sunday’s $2,603,993 spring running of the Tenno Sho Stakes at Kyoto Racecourse in Japan.
Legatissimo gave jockey Ryan Moore a sweep of the English one-mile classics for 3-year-olds at Newmarket this weekend, winning Sunday’s $620,330 English 1000 Guineas for fillies.
Furia Cruzada won Friday’s Group 1 Gran Premio Criadores at Palermo, Argentina, a victory that gives the 4-year-old filly a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
Gleneagles soared to the fore of the European 3-year-old mile division, won his fourth group stakes, and gave trainer Aidan O’Brien a record-equaling seventh career win in Saturday’s Group 1 English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse.
The list of top contenders for Sunday’s $620,330 English 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Newmarket changed drastically when final declarations were made Friday.
Gleneagles, the winner of three group stakes in Ireland last summer, can give trainer Aidan O’Brien a record-equaling seventh career win in Saturday’s Group 1 English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse.
