Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris will have a maximum field of 16 after the 2011 Group 1 winners Danedream, Masked Marvel, and Meandre were supplemented to the race for approximately $136,000 on Thursday.
If you're looking for Breeders' Cup clues while watching Sunday's Arc meeting in Longchamp, the thing to do is look beyond the winner.
Nathaniel, the winner of the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in England in July, will not start in Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in Paris because of expected firm ground, trainer John Gosden told the English press on Wednesday. Instead, Gosden’s stable could start Masked Marvel, the winner of the Group 1 English St. Leger on Sept. 11, in the Arc.
The Emirates Racing Authority this week announced upgrades to group stakes races to be held during 2012 in Dubai, with three Group 2 races attaining Group 1 status next year.
Campanologist won his first stakes of 2011 and his third Group 1 race in Germany in the last 15 months in Sunday’s Preis Von Europa at Cologne, Germany.
French raider Sahpresa captured the Sun Chariot Stakes for the third year in a row, winning the Group 1 race by one length over Chachamaidee on Saturday at Newmarket in England.
The Godolphin-owned Campanologist will have jockey Frankie Dettori aboard in Sunday’s Group 1 Preis Von Europa at Cologne, Germany.
Lyric of Light earned an automatic berth for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4, and a low future-book price for the 2012 English 1000 Guineas, after winning Friday’s Group 1 Shadwell Fillies’ Mile for 2-year-olds at Newmarket, England.
Two Group 1 races, the Sun Chariot for fillies at one mile, and the Cheveley Park for 2-year-old fillies, take center stage on Saturday's Newmarket card in England.
Trainer Michael Stoute, a regular participant in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, might have another horse for the race’s 2011 edition in the 3-year-old Sea Moon.
