Lethal Force, the dominant sprinter in England this summer, and Moonlight Cloud, a Group 1 winner last September, meet for the first time in Sunday’s $464,000 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville, France.
Sky Lantern, Europe’s leading 3-year-old filly, will try to beat older rivals for the first time when she starts Saturday at Goodwood in the Group 1, $302,860 Nassau Stakes.
With a well-timed ride from champion jockey Richard Hughes, Toronado won Wednesday’s $455,000 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in southern England, defeating rival 3-year-old Dawn Approach for the first time this year.
The Group 2 Goodwood Cup over two miles heads the action on the Thursday card at the Glorious Goodwood meeting in England.
A short head separated Dawn Approach and Toronado in the Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 18. As of Monday, little separated the two 3-year-old colts in the betting for Wednesday’s Group 1 Sussex Stakes.
Elusive Kate defended her title and won the fourth Group 1 race of her career with a relatively easy victory in Sunday’s $396,000 Prix Rothschild at Deauville, France.
Novellist set a course record for 1 1/2 miles at Ascot with a career-defining win in Saturday’s $1,629,450 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Elusive Kate won the Group 1 Prix Rothschild at Deauville, France, last July, and will be favored to win the one-mile turf race for fillies and mares again on Sunday.
After a fifth-place finish in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in his season debut, Cirrus des Aigles looks fit for a run the Group 1 King George, a Win and You're In Race for the Breeders' Cup Turf.
Nymphea, ridden by 18-year-old amateur jockey Dennis Schiergen for his father, trainer Peter Schiergen, led throughout Sunday’s Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Berlin at Hoppegarten Racecourse in Germany.
