The improving 3-year-old filly Danedream, whose connections may have designs on the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, heads a field of six entered for the Group 1 $355,000 Grosser Preis von Baden at the Iffizheim course in Germany on Sunday.
So You Think, the winner of two Group 1 races in Europe earlier this year, and a remarkable three Group 1 races in October alone in Australia last year, will be a heavy favorite to win yet another race at that level in Saturday’s Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown Racecourse in Ireland.
Maybe earned an automatic fees-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf by winning the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In Race, on Sunday at the Curragh in Ireland.
Pour Moi, the winner of the English Derby in June, was retired on Saturday after suffering a fetlock injury while exercising earlier in the week.
Six fillies entered in the Moyglare Stud Stakes on Sunday at The Curragh in Ireland share a common trait: All have been beaten by Maybe, the undefeated race favorite.
Defending champion Poet’s Voice will be a strong favorite to win his first stakes of 2011 in Saturday’s Grade 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood, England, a race that could have implications for the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs in November.
The 4-year-old filly Announce led a Juddmonte Farms one-two sweep in the Prix Jean Romanet, and Dabirsim won the Prix Morny to earn a quote in future-book betting for the English 2000 Guineas of 2012 in Group 1 races at Deauville, France, on Sunday.
Sunday’s Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville, France, lost its expected favorite on Friday when Snow Fairy was declared ineligible because of French racing rules pertaining to horses withdrawn from recent races.
Margot Did, one of two fillies in a field of 17, pulled a 20-1 upset in Friday’s Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York, England, giving jockey Hayley Turner a career-best second win at the highest level this summer.
Blue Bunting won her third Group 1 race of 2011 on Thursday at York, defeating Vita Nova by three-quarters of a length in the Yorkshire Oaks.
