On Saturday, Leopardstown Racecourse will host possibly the deepest race of the European flat season – the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes – provided the race stays together.

Prince Gibraltar, who struggled in Group 2 races in France and England in May and July, won Sunday’s $278,000 Grosser Preis Von Baden at Baden-Baden Racecourse in Germany.

The Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Baden was part of the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In program, offering a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31, if the winner is eligible to the Breeders’ Cup program.

After Sunday’s race, Prince Gibraltar was considered more of a candidate to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Oct. 4 than the BC Turf.

Goldstream, fourth in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes at Arlington Park on Aug. 15, is part of a modest field in Sunday’s $278,000 Grosser Preis von Baden at Baden-Baden Racecourse in Germany, a race that will award the winner a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31.

Maybe Gordon Lord Byron at age 7 isn’t quite the horse he was a year ago, but maybe he still is, and going six furlongs down the straight course at Haydock Park Racecourse always has agreed with Gordon Lord Byron.

Gleneagles, one of the best horses in Europe, is being pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Classic, trainer Aidan O’Brien announced Tuesday.

The 3-year-old colt, winner of the English 2000 Guineas in May, has been a miler during his excellent overseas career, but will try to stretch his stamina over the Classic’s 1 1/4 miles at Keeneland this fall if his connections’ plan holds.

Acapulco, the 2-year-old filly who was second against older horses in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York Racecourse in England on Aug. 21, will be rested for the remainder of the year.

Acapulco will resume racing in early 2016 with the goal of starting in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot next June, trainer Wesley Ward said on Saturday. Ward cited the absence of top-class races for turf sprinters in the United States in the coming months as the principal reason not to run Acapulco for the rest of the year.

“Essentially, she’s a turf sprinter,” he said.

The 5-year-old mare Odeliz found herself in an unfamiliar spot leading Sunday in the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville, and then she found herself in a place she’d never been before at all – the winner’s enclosure following a Group 1 race.

A 35-1 shot with English bookmakers, the England-based mare sprang a major surprise Sunday, traveling comfortably over very soft going that surely took several of her opponents out of their game and turning back a stern late-stretch challenge from Bawina, who might have poked her head in front before Odeliz pushed back.

Course experience worked in favor of Ajaya on Saturday, when the colt won the $339,445 Gimcrack Stakes for 2-year-olds at York Racecourse in England.

Finnegan, a maiden-race winner at Pimlico in May for trainer Wesley Ward, finished seventh of eight as the 11-4 favorite after setting the early pace in the Group 2 race at six furlongs on turf.

The American invader Acapulco was good but not quite good enough to win the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes on Friday at York, settling for second of 19 behind Mecca’s Angel after looming boldly a furlong from home.

The Nunthorpe, a five-furlong, straight-course dash, is open to horses ages 2 and up. A pair of 2-year-olds previously had won the race, and after Acapulco romped at Royal Ascot in the Queen Mary Stakes, trainer Wesley Ward, ever keen to take on new challenges, said he was pointing the strapping chestnut filly to the Nunthorpe.

A week of upsets in Group 1 races continued at York Racecourse in England on Thursday when Pleascach (8-1) outran 15-8 favorite Covert Love to win the $522,600 Yorkshire Oaks for fillies and mares.

Pleascach, ridden by Kevin Manning, finished a neck in front of Covert Love, who had a four-race winning streak end in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks at 1 1/2 miles on turf. Sea Calisi, a 7-1 shot, finished third in the field of 11. Covert Love led in the final furlong, but could not hold off Pleascach.