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.
Mayson, a 20-1 outsider, took advantage of a rain-soaked course to win his first Group 1 race in Saturday’s July Cup at Newmarket, England.
The French filly Giofra scored a 10-1 upset in Friday’s Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket, England, recording her second major stakes win of the year.
Red Cadeaux, the winner of the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup in May, will be favored to win his fourth stakes in Thursday’s Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket, the first day of the three-day July meeting.
A Deep Impact colt out of Frizette winner Sky Diva sold for just over $3 million Tuesday to top the Japan Racing Horse Association’s select foal sale at Northern Park in Hokkaido.
