Zazou held off a late threat from Rio de la Plata to win Sunday’s Group 1 Premio Roma at Capannelle racecourse in Italy, denying the defending champion his fourth career Group 1 win.
Black Caviar, Australia’s reigning Horse of the Year, extended her unbeaten streak to 16 races with an easy win in the $1.03 million Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington Racecourse on Saturday.
Defending champion Rio de la Plata will be favored to win the fourth Group 1 race of his career in Sunday’s Premio Roma at Capannelle racecourse in Italy.
Calder Race Course in Miami has joined with two other parimutuel facilities in asking the state’s Supreme Court to reconsider lower-court decisions upholding Hialeah Park’s ability to open a casino.
European shippers are in six of the nine Breeders' Cup events Saturday at Churchill Downs, with chances ranging from decent to excellent.
A wealth of knowledge won’t be gleaned watching easy Euro exercise, but seeing horses on the Churchill track two mornings can offer some clues to how they’ve traveled and adapted.
Black Caviar will attempt to stretch her unbeaten streak to 16 races when she starts as a prohibitive favorite in Saturday’s $1.03 million Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.
Dunaden, a Group 3 stakes winner at Longchamp in April, continued the recent domination of foreign horses in the $6.1 million Melbourne Cup on Tuesday with a nose victory over the British invader Red Cadeaux.
French Fifteen won Sunday’s Group 1 Criterium International for 2-year-olds colts and fillies at Saint-Cloud, France, and in doing so flattered the chances of a European invader in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Churchill Downs.
The influence of French racing, and even a longshot from the United States, will be strongly felt in Tuesday’s Group 1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse, Australia’s most famous horse race. Defending champion Americain will be favored for French trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre.
