Black Caviar can extend her unbeaten streak to 25 races in Saturday’s Group 1 T.J. Smith Stakes at Randwick Racecourse in Australia, although she is not a certain starter in the race.
Brothers Cristian and Mirco Demuro swept the exacta in the $2,311,000 Japanese 1000 Guineas at Hanshin Racecourse on Sunday with Ayusan and Red Oval.
Auroras Encore, a 66-1 longshot who had lost his last eight races, scored a convincing win in Saturday’s Grand National at Aintree Racecourse, a first career win in Britain’s most popular race for trainer Sue Smith and jockey Ryan Mania.
Saga Dream, winner of the Group 3 Prix Exbury at Saint-Cloud last month, and Dalkala, who won the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu last October, are among seven runners for Sunday’s $167,000 Prix d’Harcourt at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris.
A repeat performance from his nose defeat a year ago may be enough for Sunnyhillboy to win Saturday’s Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in England.
Overreach, a filly who has won two of her first three starts, will be favored to beat males in Saturday’s $3,640,000 Golden Slipper Stakes, the world’s richest race for 2-year-olds, at Rosehill Gardens racecourse in Australia.
In a way, the Dubai World Cup was a race Animal Kingdom needed to win. Animal Kingdom had his victory in the Kentucky Derby and subsequently had performed in ways that suggested he could be a truly special horse. But suggestions do not in the end make reputations.
In 2011, Animal Kingdom won the grand prize of American racing, the Kentucky Derby. And after three years of American World Cup flops at Meydan Race Course, and another night of forgettable performances this night, he brilliantly won the $10 million World Cup here late Saturday.
Jockey Joseph O'Brien placed St Nicholas Abbey just off the pace of Shareta, and they had a clean run the entire trip, winning the Group 1, $5 million Sheema Classic by 2 1/4 lengths over favored Japanese filly Gentildonna.
Sajjhaa's convincing victory Saturday night in the Group 1, $5 million Dubai Duty Free was her fourth group stakes win of the Meydan season, and she could well be the best horse to winter in Dubai this year.
