The 3-year-old filly Enable is at the top of European racing.

On Saturday, Enable won her third consecutive Group 1 race, and her first start against older males, in the $1,508,340 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in England.

The win had major ramifications for the buildup to the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly, France, on Oct. 1, Europe’s top flat race. Enable is now the 2-1 future-book favorite for the Arc de Triomphe over the French runners Almanzor and Brametot, who are 7-1.

Qemah will try to win the Group 1 Prix Rothschild on Sunday at Deauville Racecourse in France for the second year in a row.

Qemah, getting a seven-pound weight allowance from her elders as a 3-year-old a year ago, sprinted home a 1 1/4-length winner over fellow 3-year-old Volta last July in the Rothschild, a straight-course mile that will be run over ground forecast to be “good” on Sunday. This year, Qemah’s full 129-pound impost includes jockey Cristian Demuro as the 4-year-old filly, trained by Jean-Claude Rouget for Al Shaqab Racing, tries for her first Group 1 of 2017.

Enable, the winner of the English Oaks and Irish Oaks in recent starts, will be favored Saturday to become the third female in the last six years to win the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot Racecourse in England.

As of Thursday, Enable was 5-4 with British bookmakers to win the $1,508,340 race at 1 1/2 miles on turf. The winner receives a fees-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 4.

Total betting during the 88-day Hong Kong racing season that ended Sunday was up 10.7 percent, in part because of a five-day increase in the number of race days, according to figures released by the Hong Kong Jockey Club on Sunday.

A surge of betting from foreign jurisdictions also contributed.

The 3-year-old filly Enable won her second consecutive Group 1 race in the $455,960 Irish Oaks at The Curragh in Ireland and Harry Angel won his first Group 1 in the $646,650 July Cup for sprinters at Newmarket, England, on Saturday.

Harry Angel (9-2) won the six-furlong July Cup by 1 1/4 lengths over 4-1 Limato, the winner of the 2016 July Cup. Caravaggio, the 10-11 favorite who had won his first six career starts, could finish only fourth, beaten 1 3/4 lengths by Harry Angel.

The late Rapper Dragon was recognized as the Horse of the Year in Hong Kong for the 2016-17 season in a ceremony on Friday night.

Rapper Dragon became the first horse to sweep Hong Kong’s Triple Crown for 4-year-olds run from January to March, known as the Classic Series.

Rapper Dragon won 4 of 6 starts before suffering a fatal injury in the Group 1 Champions Mile in April. In the Classic Series, Rapper Dragon won the Hong Kong Classic Mile in January, Hong Kong Classic Cup at 1 1/8 miles in February, and the BMW Hong Kong Derby at 1 1/4 miles in March.

Roly Poly got away from stablemate Winter and got her first Group 1 victory when she led nearly all the way Friday at Newmarket in the Falmouth Stakes.

Under Ryan Moore, Roly Poly quickly beat a path to the rail, assumed early command, and never was threatened, coming home 1 1/4 lengths clear of Wuheida, who ran well making her first start since Oct. 2 for Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby. Wuheida was a half-length clear of Arabian Queen as 3-year-olds swept the top five placings in a one-mile race open to fillies and mares age 3 and older.

Sunday’s final program of the Hong Kong season at Sha Tin Racecourse is equally a preview of the 2017-18 season that begins in early September.

The top race on Sunday’s 11-race card is the $320,180 Sha Tin Mile Trophy at 1 1/8 miles on turf, a race that includes the rapidly-improving Beat the Clock.

The unbeaten Caravaggio will be favored to win his debut against older horses in Saturday’s Group 1 July Cup at six furlongs on turf at Newmarket Racecourse in England.

From a betting perspective, Caravaggio is a standout. As of Thursday, the colt was about even-money with bookmakers to beat nine rivals and win for the seventh time.

SHA TIN SELECTIONS

(Sunday, July 16, 2017)

RACE 1: #2 Kwaichung Brothers, #11 Starry Starlies, #7 Happy Gains, #10 Furious Pegasus

RACE 2: #2 Best Tango, #9 Lightning And Gold, #3 Je Pense, #11 High Speed Metro

RACE 3: #5 Our Folks, #6 Phantom Falcon, #3 Multimax, #2 Mordicus

RACE 4: #7 Spring Win, #1 Smart Boy, #2 Noble De Boy, #10 The Full Bloom