Mutual Trust extends unbeaten streak in Prix Jean Prat
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.
Steve AndersenJul 03, 2011
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.
Not only did trainer Aidan O’Brien win the Irish Derby for the sixth year in a row, he recorded his fourth sweep of the top three placings in the race Sunday when Treasure Beach beat Seville and pacesetter Memphis Tennessee in the Group 1 race at The Curragh.
Misty for Me won her third Group 1 race at the Curragh in the Pretty Polly Stakes Saturday, leading throughout 1 1/4 miles for fillies and mares and repelling a threat from Midday, the 1-3 favorite, in early stretch.
Treasure Beach, Carlton House, and Memphis Tennessee, respectively the second, third, and fourth-place finishers in the English Derby, renew their rivalry Sunday at The Curragh in the Group 1 Irish Derby. Treasure Beach and Memphis Tennessee are trained by Aidan O’Brien, who also has Roderic O’Connor and Seville in the eight-horse field. With half the runners, O’Brien figures to have a solid chance of landing his sixth straight victory in the 1 1/2-mile Derby.
Buena Vista, Japan’s Horse of the Year for the last two seasons, will be favored in Sunday’s Group 1 Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse, a race that offers an automatic berth to the winner to the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs in November.