Three-year-old races in England and France over the past week offered clues for spring Classics in both countries, while the hard-knocking French gelding Skaletti got back in the win column Sunday. In England, Godolphin’s Native Trail ran his career record to five wins from five starts while remaining the antepost favorite for the 2000 Guineas on April 30 with a dominant April 13 victory in the Craven Stakes at Newmarket. Native Trail, trained by Charlie Appleby, won two Group 1s – the National Stakes at The Curragh and the Dewhurst at Newmarket – as a 2-year-old and appears at least as strong a 3-year-old. An absolutely massive colt by Oasis Dream, Native Trail stalked the pace in the one-mile Craven before asserting his superiority through the race’s uphill finish, drawing away to a 3 1/2-length score over modest opposition. The 3-year-old filly Cachet won the Craven’s sister race, the seven-furlong Nell Gwyn, by 2 1/2 lengths, though she was far less visually impressive than Native Trail. Cachet, an Aclaim filly trained by George Boughey, ended her 2-year-old season with a fourth-place finish at Del Mar in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and remains roughly a 25-1 shot for the 1000 Guineas. At Newmarket on April 25, another colt of impressive scope, Eydon, posted a 22-1 upset in the 1 1/4-mile Feilden Stakes, winning impressively enough that his antepost price for the Derby was cut from roughly 60-1 to as low as 20-1 with some bookmakers. Trained by Roger Varian, Eydon had been third and second in a pair of all-weather races over the winter but was much the best in the Feilden, relaxing behind a slow pace at the rear of a short field before easily outfinishing five foes. Eydon could start May 12 at York in the Dante Stakes. :: Want the best bonus in racing? Get a $250 deposit match, $10 free bet, and free Formulator with DRF Bets. Code: WINNING There’s a Classic prep race Saturday at Newbury Racecourse, the seven-furlong Greenham Stakes, which drew a couple of serious 2-year-olds trying to make their mark at age 3. Angel Bleu, who relishes soft and heavy ground, won a pair of Group 1 races in France to cap his juvenile campaign. Perfect Power was the best 2-year-old sprinter in Europe last year and will test his stamina beyond six furlongs for the first time in the Greenham. French 3-year-old stakes races April 10 at Longchamp, where the ground was very soft, seemed less revealing. The Andre Fabre-trained filly Mqse De Sevigne did not show much turn of foot but closed resolutely to win the Group 3 Prix Vanteaux, contested over about 1 1/8 miles, by 1 1/2 lengths. The Siyouni filly capped a two-start 2-year-old campaign with a seven-furlong conditions win at Chantilly and could be decent. The Vanteaux’s brother race, the Prix la Force, produced a 27-1 upset from Mister Saint Paul. The Prix la Force did not leave much of a positive visual impression and produced a final time more than five seconds slower than the Vanteaux. On the same April 10 program, 7-year-old warhorse Skaletti won for the 18th time in 25 races, overcoming a troubled trip to beat Group 1 winner Sealiway in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt. Skaletti lacked room most of this 1 1/4-mile contest, which he also won in 2021, but when jockey Maxim Guyon finally maneuvered his mount out of traffic, Skalleti delivered an excellent late burst to get home by three-quarters of a length. Longchamp on Sunday hosts two one-mile preps for French Guineas races, with the Prix de la Grotte for fillies looking like a stronger contest than the Prix de Fontainebleau for colts and geldings. Raclette, a Juddmonte homebred filly by Frankel out of the American-trained Empire Maker mare, Emollient, makes her 3-year-old debut after showing vast promise winning both her 2-year-old starts for Fabre. Mangoustine went 3 for 3 during 2021, including a season-ending win in the Group 3 Prix Miesque, while Times Square was second over heavy ground in the Group 1 Prix Marcel-Boussac. Ancient Rome, a War Front colt owned by Coolmore connections and trained by Fabre, easily is the highest-rated runner in the Fontainebleau.