Frankel further burnished an already glowing reputation Saturday with an easy win in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot, his ninth victory without a defeat.
Adelaide-based mare Southern Speed, the recipient of an ideal trip under Craig Williams, stormed home four wide in the stretch to wear down the former British-trained Green Moon and seize the $2.5 million Caulfield Cup.
British flat jockeys threatened to strike on Monday, and then backed away from the threat, pending a meeting on Monday between officials of the jockeys' organization and that nation's regulatory body over recent changes in rules related to the use of whips.
Campanologist, the well-traveled 6-year-old owned by Godolphin Racing, seeks his second consecutive Group 1 win in Sunday’s Gran Premier Jockey Club Italiano at San Siro racecourse.
Frankel, Europe’s latest superstar, makes the final start of his 3-year-old season Saturday at Ascot in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. If the horse can deliver a performance to match his halo of hype, he will end 2011 the same way he started it, undefeated and revered.
Marcellina, the winner of the Japanese 1000 Guineas in April, and Erin Court, the winner of the Japanese Oaks in May, will both attempt to rebound from recent losses when they meet in Sunday’s Group 1 Shuka Sho at Kyoto Racecourse, the final leg of the Japanese Triple Crown for fillies.
Less than two weeks after a fourth-place finish in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, So You Think will be favored to win the Group 1 Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, a race that could be a prep for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5.
Atlantic Jewel, now an undefeated 4 for 4, emerged as Australian racing's newest superstar when easily making the step up to Group 1 company in Caulfield's Schweppes One Thousand Guineas.
December Draw, a stakes winner earlier this month at Flemington Racecourse, will be a strong favorite to win Saturday’s Group 1 Caulfield Cup in Australia, a key prep to next month’s Melbourne Cup.
Nothing boosts the prominence of a newly created day of major stakes more than an appearance by a nation’s leading horse.
