Moonlight Cloud is unbeaten in three starts, all in France, this year, a winning streak that makes her a heavy favorite in Sunday’s $408,000 Prix de la Foret at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris.
The Group 1 winners Leading Light, Meandre, and Treve were supplemented on Thursday for $136,000 to Sunday’s $6.4 million Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse in France, a race that will not include jockey Frankie Dettori for the first time in 25 years.
Vorda captured the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Newmarket and will make her next start in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Chriselliam, a 28-1 outsider, closed from last in a field of eight 2-year-old fillies to score an upset win in Friday’s $272,000 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket Racecourse in England.
The Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes is a Win and You’re In race linked to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, but the best race on Saturday at Newmarket is the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes.
Rizeena, who has won three stakes since May, can win her second consecutive Group 1 race in Friday’s $272,000 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket Racecourse in England.
If preview day for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe served as any guide, we are in for a cracking edition of the Arc itself next month at Longchamp.
Aidan and Joseph O’Brien and the Coolmore group behind them were denied an English Triple Crown when Encke handed Camelot a surprise defeat last year in the Leger Stakes, but with less on the line the same connections won the 2013 St. Leger with Leading Light on Saturday at Doncaster in England.
The Niel, restricted to 3-year-olds, is one of six group stakes on Sunday at Longchamp in Paris, and it is a Group 2 in name only, featuring as well as Flintshire the talented Japan Derby winner Kizuna.
Eleven horses passed the final entry stage for Saturday's English St. Leger, but Galileo Rock, who is among the favorites, will stay home in Ireland if the Doncaster course turns too wet,.
