The 3-year-old filly Bracelet is beginning to live up to the lofty reputation established by her family. Her fourth win from six starts produced her first success at the Group 1 level as Bracelet scored a narrow victory over Tapestry and Volume in the Irish Oaks on Saturday at the Curragh.

The biggest news regarding Saturday’s Group 1 Irish Oaks at The Curragh pertains not to who’s running, but to who is not.

Taghrooda would have been heavily favored in the Irish Oaks after a sharp last-start win in the Epsom Oaks, but the John Gosden-trained, Hamdan al Maktoum-owned filly was taken out of Irish Oaks consideration to instead test older males in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on July 26 at Ascot.

Irish trainer Edward Lynam has the very good sprinter Sole Power for five-furlong fast-ground races, but when rain softened the Newmarket course for Saturday’s Group 1 July Cup over six furlongs, Lynam scratched the horse. Fortunately for Lynam, he has an even better six-furlong sprinter who comfortably handles soft going, and Slade Power blew away his rivals in the July Cup.

The Grey Gatsby and Prince Gibraltar, the first and third finishers of the Group 1 French Derby on June 1, lead a field of 11 in Sunday’s $816,480 Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp Racecourse.

Trained by Kevin Ryan for Frank Gillespie, The Grey Gatsby, by Mastercraftsman, has won his last two starts, including the Group 2 Dante Stakes at York, England, in May. In the French Derby, The Grey Gatsby won by three lengths over Shamkiyr, who was a head in front of Prince Gibraltar.

The Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris is run over about 1 1/2 miles. Ryan Moore rides The Grey Gatsby.

Late-developing Integral is evolving into one of the better older fillies in Europe, and she scored her first Group 1 victory on Friday at Newmarket, comfortably defeating 3-year-old Rizeena by two lengths in the Falmouth Stakes.

Trainer Edward Lynam’s powerful pair of sprinters, Sole Power and Slade Power, meet several rising 3-year-olds, including the Spanish horse Noozhoh Canarias, in the Group 1 July Cup on Saturday at Newmarket in England.

The field includes an American horse, Undrafted. Owned by Wes Welker and trained by Wesley Ward, Undrafted exits a good win the Jaipur Stakes over six furlongs on June 7 at Belmont.

Integral, Sky Lantern, and Rizeena head the seven fillies and mares entered in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes on Friday at Newmarket in England.

Integral and Sky Lantern, both 4-year-olds, met in the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes at the Royal Ascot meet last month. It was a good day for Integral, who beat 13 rivals scoring a two-length victory, but not so much for Sky Lantern, who failed to threaten finishing fifth in her first start of 2014.

After two good losses to start his 2014 campaign, Mukhadram broke through with a big win Saturday at Sandown in the Eclipse Stakes, winning the first Group 1 race of his career by two lengths over Trading Leather.

It was another three-quarters of a length back to the third-place Somewhat, a huge longshot assumed to be a rabbit in the Eclipse, as the top three slots all went to horses forwardly placed in the 1 1/4-mile race.

The Fugue will attempt to repeat her brilliant performance last month winning the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot when she starts Saturday in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.

The Fugue is one of 10 entered in the 1 1/4-mile Eclipse, and hot, dry weather this week has boosted her chances, though over good-to-firm going in this race last year, The Fugue struggled home last of seven. In the Prince of Wales’s, The Fugue finished with a flourish to beat Magician by 1 3/4 lengths, but only once in her excellent career has she strung together consecutive victories.

A pair of older horses, Spiritjim in France and Thistle Bird in Ireland, notched Group 1 victories for the first time Sunday.

Four-year-old Spiritjim won the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud by a head over Noble Mission. Noble Mission, Juddmonte Farms’ brother to superstar Frankel, made the pace under jockey James Doyle and appeared to be on his way to victory a furlong from the finish, but Noble Mission seriously shortened stride in the final 100 yards and was tagged on the wire by Spiritjim, with rallying Siljan’s Saga close behind in third.