Flotilla, who won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita last November, will try to win her third consecutive major stakes against a talented field of 3-year-old fillies in Sunday’s $1,320,000 French Oaks at Chantilly Racecourse in France.
At the Royal Ascot meeting in England, there is no gradual crescendo to a fantastic finale. Day 1 of five-day stand is the best day of the meeting, and the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes, the first race on the first day, often is the meeting’s best race.
Animal Kingdom on Wednesday morning had his final breeze for the Queen Anne Stakes on Tuesday at Royal Ascot when he worked five furlongs on an uphill synthetic-surface gallop in Lambourn, England.
Legendary English trainer Henry Cecil, who trained the brilliant unbeaten turf miler Frankel and four winners of the English Derby, died early Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 70.
Linton, a 7-year-old gray gelding, rallied on the rail through the final quarter-mile to win Saturday’s $1,292,000 Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Australia.
A week after winning his first stakes of 2013 in the Group 2 Queensland Guineas, Sizzling faces older horses in Saturday’s $1,292,000 Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Australia.
Ruler of the World and Libertarian, the one-two finishers in the Epsom Derby on Saturday, could meet again later this month in the Group 1 Irish Derby at The Curragh, while Intello, winner of the French Derby at Chantilly on Sunday, might not be seen again until August, with the Prix Jacques le Marois a possible resurfacing point for France's leader of the 3-year-old divison.
Trainer Andre Fabre’s first win in the Prix du Jockey Club came in 1997 with Peintre Celebre, and his most recent came Sunday, when Intello stormed home from just off the leaders to impressively capture France’s version of the Kentucky Derby.
Lord Kanaloa, who has dominated sprints in Japan and Hong Kong since last fall, stretched his speed to a mile with a win in Sunday’s $2.06 million Yasuda Kinen at Tokyo Racecourse.
Aidan O’Brien won his fourth Epsom Derby, and the Coolmore group their third straight, as lightly raced Ruler of the World rallied from the rear of a 12-horse field under Ryan Moore to capture the Derby by 1 1/2 lengths.
