Camelot, the sharp winner of a maiden race at Leopardstown Racecourse in Ireland in his career debut in July, will be a short-priced favorite in his second career start, Saturday’s Group 1 Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster, England.
The Cox Plate, Australia's most important and richest weight-for-age event, will be conducted late Saturday afternoon at Melbourne's unique Moonee Valley Racecourse. In the buildup, the 2040-meter event (approximately 10 furlongs) and its expected field of 14 has been hyped as a showdown between longtime favorite Jimmy Choux and upstart sensation Helmet.
The $3 million Cox Plate, a key prep for the Melbourne Cup on Nov. 1, is the richest of nine races on Saturday’s program at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Australia. But the lucrative race must share attention with Black Caviar’s attempt to stretch her unbeaten streak to 15 races in the $300,000 Schweppes Stakes on the undercard.
Aventura, who missed the Japanese spring classics for fillies because of a leg injury, won her third consecutive race since her return to racing in Sunday’s Group 1 Shuka Sho at Kyoto Racecourse, the final leg of the Japanese Triple Crown for fillies.
Campanologist won the fourth Group 1 race of his career, and second in as many races, in Sunday’s Gran Premier Jockey Club Italiano at San Siro Racecourse in Italy.
Cirrus des Aigles caught So You Think in the final 50 yards of Saturday’s Group 1 Champion Stakes at Ascot Racecourse in England, but the race was marred by a suspension and massive fine given to winning jockey Christophe Soumillon for excessive use of the whip.
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.
