Azarenka, a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Street Hero, is part of a field of 12 in Sunday’s $200,000 Clasico Cesar Del Rio at Hipodromo de Monterrico in Peru, a race that offers an automatic berth for the winner to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita this fall through the Breeders’ Cup’s Win and You’re In series.

The Group 3 Clasico Cesar Del Rio is run over 1 1/4 miles on dirt for fillies and mares, and is the first race in Peru to be included in the Win and You’re In series.

The field includes the stakes winner Shakita and Valiant Emilia.

Rizeena rebounded from a disappointing seventh-place finish in the English 1000 Guineas, her 3-year-old debut, to capture the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, the feature on Friday’s Royal Ascot card.

Rosalind, the Ken McPeek-trained American filly in the Coronation, stumbled leaving the starting gate and unseated jockey Kieren Fallon.

Rizeena had a busy 2013 campaign and was one of the best 2-year-old fillies in England or Ireland last year, winning the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes and placing in two other Group 1 races.

Slade Power, the winner of four European group stakes for sprinters in the last year, will be favored to win the first Group 1 race of his career in Saturday’s $894,705 Diamond Jubilee Stakes on the final day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting in England.

In his first start of 2014, Slade Power won the Group 3 Greenlands Stakes over six furlongs at The Curragh in Ireland on May 24. Last October, Slade Power won the Group 2 British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot and was 10th in the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin Racecourse in December.

A 5-year-old Group 1-winning mare with pedigree typically would be settled into life as a broodmare. Not The Fugue, who might have run the race of her life Wednesday at Royal Ascot, beating Magician and the heavily favored Treve in winning the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes by 1 3/4 lengths in course-record time.

Trainer Wesley Ward and jockey Victor Espinoza will team with To Be Determined, a filly by Elusive Quality, in Thursday’s $135,700 Norfolk Stakes over a straightaway five furlongs at Royal Ascot. To Be Determined was third in a maiden race at Churchill Downs last month, her only start.

The 2-year-old colt Hootenanny gave American trainer Wesley Ward and jockey Victor Espinoza a successful start to the Royal Ascot meeting on Tuesday with an easy win in the Windsor Castle Stakes over five furlongs.

Hootenanny, the 7-2 favorite in a field of 25, won the $101,800 Windsor Castle Stakes on a straightaway course by 3 1/2 lengths over 100-1 Union Rose. Hootenanny, third in the Rollicking Stakes at Pimlico in May, was the first of six juvenile runners for Ward and Espinoza at Royal Ascot, which continues through Saturday.

Alarm bells over deserted racecourses and disappearing French racing fans sound steadily these days. Ironically, the French racehorse is in full flower.

Two French horses, Miss France in the 1000 Guineas and Cirrus des Aigles in the Coronation Cup, already have raided England for Group 1 wins this year, and Treve will be widely expected to make it three Wednesday when she starts in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes, the feature on the second day of the Royal Ascot meeting.

There are American influences from start to finish on Tuesday’s opening day of the Royal Ascot meeting in England, the most highly anticipated week of flat racing on the English calendar.

The six-race program is highlighted by three Group 1 races worth $636,375 – the Queen Anne Stakes over a mile, the King’s Stand Stakes over five furlongs, and the St. James’s Palace Stakes for 3-year-old colts over a mile.

Tuesday’s final race, the $101,800 Windsor Castle Stakes for 2-year-olds over a straightaway five furlongs, has a field of 25, including the American runner Hootenanny.

Avenir Certain ran her perfect record to 5 for 5 and captured her second straight Group 1 race when charging down the outside to overpower her rivals in the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) on Sunday at Chantilly.

George Strawbridge’s unbeaten filly We Are was withdrawn Thursday from the Group 1 Prix de Diane on Sunday at Chantilly, but there are three other undefeated 3-year-old fillies among the 12 entered in a race also known as the French Oaks.