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.
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.
