California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, will miss an expected start in the $535,500 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in England in May and be trained for the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot in June, trainer Art Sherman said on Tuesday.

California Chrome was second to Prince Bishop in the $10 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates on March 28 in his most recent start. He was sent to trainer Rae Guest’s stable in Newmarket, England, in the week following that race.

Legendary steeplechase jockey A.P. McCoy climbed out of the saddle for the final time at Sandown Park in England on Saturday, ending his career with two third-place finishes on an afternoon that celebrated his career.

McCoy, 40, announced in February that he was retiring this spring and chose Saturday’s final day of the British steeplechase season for the occasion. He ended his career with 4,348 winners. Saturday, he rode Mr. Mole to a third in the A.P. McCoy Celebration Chase, a race named in his honor, and Box Office to a third in the bet365 Handicap Hurdle.

The record-breaking career of steeplechase jockey A.P. McCoy will come to an end at Sandown Park outside of London on Saturday.

McCoy, 40, the winningest jockey in steeplechase history with more than 4,340 victories, announced his retirement in February and has chosen Saturday’s seven-race program as his final day. Saturday’s program marks the end of the 2014-15 British steeplechase season.

Duramente won the first stakes of his career in Sunday’s $1,700,824 Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse, giving international jockey Mirco Demuro his first Grade 1 win in Japan since he began riding regularly in the country last month.

Duramente, the 7-2 third choice, closed from the back of the field of 15 to win by 1 1/2 lengths over the 5-2 second choice Real Steel, who led in the stretch in the race at 1 1/4 miles on turf. Duramente was timed in 1:58.20.

The unbeaten stakes winners Kitasan Black and Satono Crown, and the 2014 champion 2-year-old colt Danon Platina, are among 15 colts in Sunday’s $1,700,824 Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse.

Kitasan Black, by the Sunday Silence stallion Black Tide, may go favored on the basis of his win in the Grade 2 Spring Stakes at Nakayama in March, a race in which Danon Platina was third in his first start of the year.

California Chrome is on schedule for a European debut in the $522,550 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in England on May 16, trainer Art Sherman said Thursday.

The 2014 Horse of the Year has been based at trainer Rae Guest’s stable at Newmarket, England, for the last two weeks, following a second-place finish to Prince Bishop in the $10 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates on March 28.

The prep-race season for 2015 classic races in the U.S. is over, but overseas, it is in full swing.

At Newmarket in England on Wednesday, there were two such races, following a race in France on Tuesday and one last Sunday in Ireland, with more preps to come Thursday and Saturday this week.

Let’s Go Donki led throughout Sunday’s $1,533,842 Japanese 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Hanshin Racecourse, the first leg of the year-long Japanese Triple Crown.

Ridden by Yasunari Iwata for trainer Tomoyuki Umeda, Let’s Go Donki (9-1) won by four lengths over the 22-1 Culminar, who finished three-quarters of a length in front of the 26-1 Contessa Thule in third. Rouge Buck, the 3-5 favorite, could only finish ninth, her first loss in four starts.

Many Clouds, the 163-pound second highweight, gave jockey Leighton Aspell his second consecutive win in the $1,469,200 Grand National steeplechase at 4 7/16ths miles at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England on Saturday.

An 8-year-old Irish-bred gelding, Many Clouds always was near the front of the 39-horse field, took the lead with about six furlongs and five fences remaining, and won by 1 3/4 lengths over Saint Are.

Many Clouds paid 25-1 with bookmakers and was sent off at 31.9-1 through the pari-mutuel system.

Three fillies – Cat Coin, Queens Ring, and Rouge Buck – risk unbeaten records in Sunday’s $1,533,842 Japanese 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Hanshin Racecourse. Prerace expectations suggest that one of them will remain unbeaten after the Grade 1 race at about a mile on a right-handed turf course.