Melbourne's Caulfield Cup Festival continues Wednesday as some of Australia's best 3-year-old fillies take center stage in the Group 1, $511,000 Schweppes One Thousand Guineas.
The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, Danedream, will not travel to the United States for Breeders’ Cup start, her connections have decided.
Nayarra, the only transnational shipper in the race, captured the Group 1 Premio Gran Criterium by a half-length on Sunday at San Siro in Italy.
Parish Hall, who had been second in two group stakes in Ireland during the summer, pulled a 20-1 upset in Saturday’s Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, England, beating favored Power by a half-length.
Black Caviar, Australia’s reigning Horse of the Year, extended her unbeaten streak to 14 races in Saturday’s Group 2 Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield, Australia. Black Caviar’s streak now equals the longest winning streak of the mighty Phar Lap, who won 14 straight in 1930-31.
This year’s edition of the Group 1 Premio Gran Criterium, scheduled for Sunday at San Siro, failed to attract any serious ship-ins, and drew a field of only seven.
A new $1 million race has been added to the Dubai World Cup program at Meydan Racecourse next March, but it is unlikely to figure prominently among American invaders.
Power, the winner of two group stakes this year in England and Ireland, will attempt to solidify his status as a leading contender for the 2012 English 2000 Guineas in Saturday’s Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, England.
Black Caviar, unbeaten in 13 starts and Australia’s reigning Horse of the Year, will be an overwhelming favorite to win her first start since May in the Group 2 Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield, Australia, on Saturday.
By getting so good, so fast, the 3-year-old German filly Danedream might have run herself out of a start in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup.
