Aidan O’Brien will have as many as four runners – including Kentucky Derby last-place finisher Daddy Long Legs – in the Irish 2000 Guineas on Saturday at The Curragh, but the O’Brien quartet doesn’t include the race’s ante-post betting favorite, Parish Hall.
Gold Ship, the winner of the Japanese 2000 Guineas, has a tough act to follow in Sunday’s $3.9 million Japanese Derby at Tokyo Racecourse.
Danedream, the blowout winner of the 2011 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, made a winning return to the races on Sunday in Germany, beating nine rivals in the Group 2 Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmer at Baden-Baden.
The Japanese filly Gentildonna has won the first two stakes in that country’s lucrative series for 3-year-old fillies. Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse, Gentildonna won the $2.52 million Japanese Oaks by five lengths in stakes-record time.
Frankel, the unbeaten European superstar, is expected to make his next start in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in England on June 19
Feuerblitz, a German-bred colt by Big Shuffle, won the first stakes of his career in Sunday’s Group 2 Italian Derby at Capannelle Racecourse.
Frankel’s first start in 2012 looked a lot like most of the other races he’s run since his career began in 2010, with the English champion crushing overmatched foes in the Group 1 J.T. Lockinge Stakes on Saturday at Newbury.
Real Solution, an undefeated colt owned by American breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey, risks a three-race unbeaten streak in Sunday’s Group 2 Italian Derby at Capannelle Racecourse.
Frankel, considered by many the top-rated horse in the world, makes his 4-year-old debut Saturday at Newbury in the Group 1 J.T. Lockinge Stakes.
Undefeated two-time champion Frankel remains on track to make his 4-year-old debut on Saturday at Newbury in the J.T. Lockinge Stakes.
