Maybe, a Galileo filly unbeaten in five starts but unraced since August, will be heavily favored to win Sunday’s Group 1 English 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Newmarket racecourse.
Aidan O’Brien has 30-1 shot Daddy Long Legs for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, but about five hours earlier at Newmarket he’ll saddle the hot favorite Camelot for the Group 1 English 2000 Guineas.
Beat Black, a 5-year-old who had never won a graded stakes, pulled a shocking upset in Sunday’s spring running of the $3.4 million Tenno Sho for older horses at Kyoto Racecourse in Japan, winning the Grade 1 race over about two miles by four lengths at the staggering odds of 158-1.
Just four weeks after a game win in the Group 1 Sheema Classic in Dubai, Cirrus des Aigles scored a dominant front-running victory Sunday at Longchamp in Paris, taking the Group 1 Prix Ganay by eight lengths over the talented filly Giofra.
Rulership, a Japanese invader who never had finished better than fourth at the Group 1 level, easily captured the Group 1 Audemars Piguet QEII Cup on Sunday at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.
Racing over radically soft going, even by European standards, Imperial Monarch and Colombian scored Group 3 victories on Saturday at Sandown in England.
Black Caviar needed minimal effort to extend her unbeaten streak to 20 races in Saturday’s Group 1 Sportingbet Classic at Morphettville Racecourse, near Adelaide, Australia.
With his old rival and defending champion Ambitious Dragon sitting out the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup on Sunday at Sha Tin in Hong Kong, it could be California Memory’s turn to step into the spotlight.
The Cirrus des Aigles that finished third one year ago in the Prix Ganay was not the Cirrus des Aigles that heads the 2012 edition of the Group 1 Ganay on Sunday at Longchamp.
The best racing in Europe on Saturday comes at Sandown Park in England, which hosts two Group 3 stakes among a mixed flat- and jump-race card.
