Treve, the 4-year-old French filly rated one of the world’s best runners after a rousing win in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe last fall capped an unbeaten season, won’t race again until September.
Slade Power won his first Group 1 race in Saturday’s $894,705 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, giving owner Sabena Power and trainer Ed Lynam a sweep of the two Group 1 sprints during the five-day race meeting, which ended on Saturday.
Azarenka, a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Street Hero, is part of a field of 12 in Sunday’s $200,000 Clasico Cesar Del Rio at Hipodromo de Monterrico in Peru, a race that offers an automatic berth for the winner to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita this fall through the Breeders’ Cup’s Win and You’re In series.
Rizeena rebounded from a disappointing seventh-place finish in the English 1000 Guineas, her 3-year-old debut, to capture the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, the feature on Friday’s Royal Ascot card.
Slade Power, the winner of four European group stakes for sprinters in the last year, will be favored to win the first Group 1 race of his career in Saturday’s $894,705 Diamond Jubilee Stakes on the final day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting in England.
The Fugue might have run the race of her life Wednesday at Royal Ascot, beating Magician and heavily favored Treve in winning the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes by 1 3/4 lengths in course-record time.
Trainer Wesley Ward and jockey Victor Espinoza will team with To Be Determined, a filly by Elusive Quality, in Thursday’s $135,700 Norfolk Stakes over a straightaway five furlongs at Royal Ascot. To Be Determined was third in a maiden race at Churchill Downs last month, her only start.
The 2-year-old filly Hootenanny gave American trainer Wesley Ward and jockey Victor Espinoza a successful start to the Royal Ascot meeting on Tuesday with an easy win in the Windsor Castle Stakes over five furlongs.
Two French horses, Miss France in the 1000 Guineas and Cirrus des Aigles in the Coronation Cup, already have raided England for Group 1 wins this year, and Treve will be widely expected to make it three Wednesday when she starts in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes, the feature on the second day of the Royal Ascot meeting.
There are American influences from start to finish on Tuesday’s opening day of the Royal Ascot meeting in England, the most highly anticipated week of flat racing on the English calendar.
