The Group 1 Lockinge Stakes on Saturday at Newbury in England did not draw American Horse of the Year California Chrome, who when he first arrived in England after the Dubai World Cup, was announced as a probable runner, but he may be one of the few high-quality older horses in England not entered in the race.

The Lockinge, at one mile over a straight course, drew 18 entrants, the most in the race’s history, vast numbers lured by a purse increase from about $338,000 last year to about $552,000 this year, thanks to new sponsor Al Shaqab Racing.

Clarity Sky rebounded from a fifth-place finish in the Japanese 2000 Guineas in April to win Sunday’s $1,600,400 NHK Mile for 3-year-olds at Tokyo Racecourse over the previously unbeaten Kentucky-bred filly Albiano.

Clarity Sky, the 5-1 third choice, closed from fifth in a field of 18 to win by a length over Albiano, the 5-1 fourth choice. Musee Sultan, the 9-2 second choice, finished third, with Grand Silk, the 3-1 favorite, running fifth.

Make Believe led from start to finish and gave trainer Andre Fabre his first win since 2010 in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, the French 2000 Guineas, on Sunday at Longchamp.

Fabre also trains the second-place New Bay, who rallied from last at the top of the homestretch to beat 16 rivals while still falling three lengths short of the impressive Make Believe.

The Poule d’Essai des Poulains, or French 2000 Guineas, had a direct bearing on U.S. racing last year, as its victor, Karakontie, would go on the upset the Breeders’ Cup Mile late in the season, but if there is a horse of Karakontie’s quality in this year’s edition of the Poulains, to be run Sunday at Longchamp, he has not yet shown himself.

Gold Ship, a fixture in top-class races in Japan for the last three years, won the sixth Grade 1 race of his career in Sunday’s $2,603,993 spring running of the Tenno Sho Stakes at Kyoto Racecourse in Japan.

Gold Ship made his third career appearance in the two-mile Tenno Sho on turf, having finished fifth and seventh in the last two years. On Sunday, Gold Ship was the 7-2 second choice in a field of 17.

Legatissimo gave jockey Ryan Moore a sweep of the English one-mile classics for 3-year-olds at Newmarket this weekend, winning Sunday’s $620,330 English 1000 Guineas for fillies.

Moore won Saturday’s English 2000 Guineas with Gleneagles. Legatissimo and Gleneagles are both owned by Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, and Susan Magnier.

Moore, 31, became the first jockey since Kieren Fallon to win both races in the same year.

Furia Cruzada won Friday’s Group 1 Gran Premio Criadores at Palermo, Argentina, a victory that gives the 4-year-old filly a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland on Oct. 31.

To start in that race, Furia Cruzada must be nominated to the Breeders’ Cup program by Oct. 19. According to the Breeders’ Cup’s website, Furia Cruzada is not nominated to the program, but her owners indicated after Friday’s race she has the BC Distaff as an autumn goal and will be made eligible.

Furia Cruzada won the third Group 1 of her career in the Gran Premio Criadores.

Gleneagles soared to the fore of the European 3-year-old mile division, won his fourth group stakes, and gave trainer Aidan O’Brien a record-equaling seventh career win in Saturday’s Group 1 English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse.

Sent off as the 4-1 favorite, Gleneagles won the one-mile turf race on a straightaway by 2 1/4 lengths over the French challenger Territories, a 5-1 chance. Ivawood, the winner of two Group 2 races last year, finished third in the field of 18.

The list of top contenders for Sunday’s $620,330 English 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Newmarket changed drastically when final declarations were made Friday.

Found, the longtime future-book favorite who was as low as 7-2 in recent betting, was not among the 13 fillies entered for the one-mile turf race. In April, trainer Aidan O’Brien said Found was fighting an elevated temperature and her chances of making the race were in doubt.

Gleneagles, the winner of three group stakes in Ireland last summer, can give trainer Aidan O’Brien a record-equaling seventh career win in Saturday’s Group 1 English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse.

Glenagles, by Galileo, has not raced since he finished first in the Prix Jean Luc Lagardere at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris last October, but was disqualified and placed third for causing interference in the stretch of the seven-furlong race.