The Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes headlines a big day of racing on Saturday at Newmarket in England. The $559,055 Dewhurst is the richest of four group races for 2-year-olds on a program that also includes the $400,000 Cambridgeshire Handicap.
Purses on the wintertime all-weather circuit in England will be increased by $3.1 million this winter, culminating in a day of stakes for six divisions on Polytrack at Lingfield Park near London in April.
As flashy as Treve looked winning the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday, Moonlight Cloud might have been her equal winning the Group 1 Prix de la Foret 1 1/2 hours later.
Treve blew away an elite field and now has a chance to go down as one of the best fillies in recent history after winning the Group 1, $6,254,439 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday at Longchamp by five lengths.
Cirrus des Aigles won the Group 2 Prix Dollar for the third consecutive year at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris on Saturday, becoming the first horse to achieve the milestone.
If Orfevre were a professional athlete of the human rather than equine variety, a full year of dark brooding would be ending Sunday, when he gets another crack at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.
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.
