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,.
Four-year-old filly The Fugue, winning her first big race against males, overhauled pace-setting Trading Leather and outfinished Al Kazeem to win the Group 1 $570,000 Irish Champion Stakes on Saturday at Leopardstown.
For the first time all season, Al Kazeem figures to get the rain-softened grass he prefers in Saturday's Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.
Novellist won his third consecutive Group 1 race in Sunday’s $330,000 Grosser Preis Von Baden but had to work a little harder than expected to win Germany’s top race for older horses.
Novellist, winner of consecutive Group 1 races in June and July, can solidify his claims as a leading contender for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in France in October when he starts favored in Sunday’s Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Baden at Baden-Baden in Germany.
