Perfect in two starts this year, Colour Vision, the winner of the Ascot Gold Cup in June, may go favored in Thursday’s Group 2 Goodwood Cup at Goodwood Racecourse in southern England.
Frankel will be overwhelmingly favored to defeat just three foes when he defends his title in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood.
Elusive Kate is based in England with trainer John Gosden, but the filly loves racing in France. She travelled to Deauville for the Group 1 Prix Rothschild on Sunday and led all the way, running her French record to 4 for 4 while winning for the third time in as many starts on the Deauville course.
Chachamaideecan win the most prestigious race of her career in Tuesday’s Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in England. Tuesday’s program is the first day of the track’s famous five-day Glorious Goodwood summer meeting.
Golden Lilac should find conditions that suit her Sunday at Deauville, where Golden Lilac is part of a select field of five in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild.
Afsare, a winner at the 2010 Royal Ascot meeting, can win his second consecutive stakes – and first at the group level – in Saturday’s Group 2 York Stakes at York Racecourse in northern England.
A day after Nathaniel finished a game second to Danedream by a nose in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, Great Heavens, Nathaniel’s full sister, won her fourth consecutive race in the Group 1 Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.
The German filly Danedream won the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday at Ascot by a head bob, with Danedream beating the race’s gallant 2011 winner Nathaniel by a nose.
Great Heavens and Princess Highway, 3-year-old fillies who have won their last three starts, are the top contenders in Sunday’s Group 1 Irish Oaks at the Curragh.
Nathaniel will be out to defend his title in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, but the group he faces Saturday at Ascot will be a far deeper one than he beat in last year’s edition of the 1 1/2-mile race, a Win and You're In event for the Breeders' Cup Turf.
