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.
The 4-year-old filly Curran Chan won her fourth consecutive race, and first Group 1, beating males in the $2.4 million Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan on Sunday.
Nahrain remained unbeaten after four races, and earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf next month, with a nose victory in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris on Sunday.
The German 3-year-old filly Danedream burst to the lead about three furlongs from the finish and easily won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday at Longchamp in Paris.
Goldikova lost a thriller to upstart Dream Ahead on Sunday at Longchamp, going down by a head in the Prix de la Foret, her final start in France before being retired later this year.
