Order Again has gone nearly 15 months without a win in Australia, racing at some of the country’s top tracks in minor stakes or handicaps in recent months.

A journey to a smaller venue – Hawkesbury Racecourse on the outskirts of Sydney – on Thursday for the $108,600 Rowley Mile could provide an elusive win.

Order Again was sent to trainer Chris Waller after a ninth-place finish by 3 1/4 lengths in a handicap at Sunshine Coast Racecourse in late April. For Waller, Order Again is winless in five starts, finishing second, third, or fourth in each race.

Love could be a filly good enough to conquer all. On her way to a date in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe this fall, she races for the first time in nearly two months Thursday in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks.

Love was a strong odds-on favorite Monday with British bookmakers before the composition of the Yorkshire Oaks was finalized Tuesday. One horse she won’t face is Enable, with trainer John Gosden waiting for a different time, a different place, to send his 5-year-old mare into a battle with Love.

From Germany to Dubai to England, 5-year-old Ghaiyyath has developed into an international star over the last year, and on Wednesday at York he will be favored to win his third straight Group 1 in the Juddmonte International.

Proper Rogue and Wilmot Pass have had similar careers in Australia in the last year.

They are both lightly raced 4-year-olds, excel in sprints, and have run well in recent starts. They meet for the third time in a six-furlong handicap on the Lakeside course at Ladbrokes Park in Melbourne on Wednesday.

Pat’s Nipper returned from a four-month layoff to finish a decent fourth in a handicap at Moree Racecourse in Australia on July 16.

The recent outing should allow Pat’s Nipper to show improvement in his second start after the rest in a handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs at Gunnedah Racecourse on Tuesday.

Palace Pier took his record to 5 for 5 with a sharp three-quarter-length win over the 3-year-old filly Alpine Star in the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois on Sunday at Deauville.

Frankie Dettori went to France from England to ride this weekend knowing he’d have to quarantine for 14 days upon returning home, but the trip was worth the travail. The day before Dettori rode Palace Pier to victory for trainer John Gosden, he piloted the Gosden-trained Mishriff to a comfortable win in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano.

Mishriff, The Summit, and Victor Ludorum, the first three home in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club on July 5, meet again Saturday at Deauville in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano.

Mishriff, trained by John Gosden, was making his group stakes debut in the Prix du Jockey Club, the French Derby, and won by 1 3/4 lengths thanks to an electric turn of foot in deep stretch.

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The three-race winning streak compiled by The Sledgehammer in Australia in the last six weeks has occurred at tiny racetracks such as Warren, Dubbo, and Forbes.

The next stop is Sunday at Narromine, northwest of Sydney, for the Narromine Cup at a mile on turf.

While those four venues in the New South Wales countryside are not well known to most racing followers, there is universal appeal in the way The Sledgehammer has performed of late.

Seven horses are entered in the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois on Sunday at Deauville, and it takes no great leap of the imagination to envision five plausible winners.

Romanised won the 2019 Marois and rates as a contender again, but the foes he faces Sunday in this one-mile fixture are much stronger than those he beat last summer. Shaman was second in the Marois last year and would be nowhere near the top of the betting Sunday.

Mystic Journey won the Group 2 P.B. Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne in August 2019 for her seventh consecutive win, the sort of performance that suggested the mare was going to have a brilliant season in Australia in the final months of the year.

Mystic Journey has not won since. She was later fifth in the Group 1 Cox Plate, Australia’s top weight-for-age race, last October and fifth in her only start this calendar year in the Group 1 William Reid Stakes at six furlongs in March.