Elusive Kate won Friday’s Group 1 Falmouth Stakes for fillies and mares at Newmarket, England, a result that was not confirmed until a stewards’ inquiry reviewed whether the winner bothered 4-7 favorite Sky Lantern in the final quarter-mile.
No Nay Never, the American-trained undefeated winner of the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 20, remains on schedule for a return to Europe for the Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville, France, on Aug. 18, trainer Wesley Ward said.
There is Group 1 action on both sides of the English Channel on Saturday in the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp and the July Cup at Newmarket.
Sky Lantern, winner of the English 1000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes in recent months, will have just three rivals when she makes her first start against older fillies and mares in Friday’s Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket, England.
Grandeur, last seen winning the Hollywood Turf Cup in December, was among the seven final declarations for the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes on Thursday at Newmarket.
The British Horseracing Authority full report on suspended trainer Mahmood al Zarooni’s use of anabolic steroids is nearing completion, but the full report will be shared only with al Zarooni’s former employer, Godolphi, the Authority announced Tuesday.
Lucky Speed (9-2) gave jockey Andreas Starke a sixth career win in the $640,000 German Derby at Hamburg on Sunday.
Al Kazeem continued his surprising unbeaten 2013 campaign, winning his third straight Group 1 race when beating Declaration of War by two lengths in the Eclipse Stakes on Saturday at Sandown Park in England.
Ivanhowe, the winner of the Group 2 Oppenheim Union-Rennen in Cologne on June 16, will be favored to win his first Group 1 in Sunday’s $640,000 German Derby at Hamburg.
At the beginning of this year, 5-year-old Al Kazeem never had even started in a Group 1 race, but on Saturday at Sandown Park in England, Al Kazeem attempts to win his third straight Group 1 while cementing his position as a leading middle-distance horse in Europe.
