Timepiece, a Juddmonte Farms homebred trained by Henry Cecil and ridden by Tom Queally, scored by far the biggest win of her career in the Group 1 Falmouth, defeating favored Sahpresa by 1 1/4 lengths in the one-mile race restricted to fillies and mares.
Frederick Engels extended his stakes-winning streak to two races, and the mare Crystal Capella won her first career stakes against males in Group 2 stakes at Newmarket, England, on Thursday.
Delegator, unplaced in the last two runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Mile, may finally win the first Group 1 race of his career in Saturday’s July Cup for sprinters at Newmarket, England.
Frederick Engels, the winner of the 24-runner Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 14, makes his group stakes debut against just seven rivals in Thursday’s Group 2 July Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings at Newmarket, England.
Mutual Trust remained unbeaten after four starts and won his first Group 1 race in the Prix Jean Prat for 3-year-olds at Chantilly, France, on Sunday.
So You Think, surprisingly defeated as the heavy favorite in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes last month at Royal Ascot, rebounded with a determined half-length victory over Workforce in the Group 1, $364,000 Eclipse Stakes on Saturday at Sandown Park in England.
Zoffany, who finished a fast-closing second to Frankel in the Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 14, will be favored to win the second Group 1 race of his career in Sunday’s Prix Jean Prat for 3-year-olds over a mile on turf at Chantilly, France.
The Workforce-So You Think showdown comes instead on Saturday at Sandown, where the two meet up in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes.
Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms collected three awards Monday night at Britain’s annual Thoroughbred Breeders Association awards dinner in Newmarket.
Earnestly won the first Grade 1 race of his career in a 12-1 upset in Sunday’s $3.2 million Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan, earning an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs in November.
