Elusive Kate is based in England with trainer John Gosden, but the filly loves racing in France. She travelled to Deauville for the Group 1 Prix Rothschild on Sunday and led all the way, running her French record to 4 for 4 while winning for the third time in as many starts on the Deauville course.
Skip to main content
Create Your DRF Account
New to DRF?
Everything you could possibly
need in one place
need in one place
Register
Don't have an account?
Register Here
DRF Past Performances
Chachamaidee, a 5-year-old mare who was second in the Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes at Royal Ascot in June, can win the most prestigious race of her career in Tuesday’s Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in England.
Tuesday’s program is the first day of the track’s famous five-day Glorious Goodwood summer meeting. The focus of the week will be Frankel’s appearance in Wednesday’s Group 1 Sussex Stakes over a mile, a race he won in 2011. Frankel is unbeaten in 11 starts.
Chachamaidee is trained by Sir Henry Cecil, who also trains Frankel.
The high-class French filly Golden Lilac skipped the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes in June at Royal Ascot because of a wet, testing course, but that’s the kind of going she found anyway in the race her connections chose as an alternative, the Falmouth Stakes on July 13 at Newmarket. Golden Lilac struggled home ninth of 10 there but should find conditions that better suit her Sunday at Deauville, where Golden Lilac is part of a select field of five in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild.
Afsare, a winner at the 2010 Royal Ascot meeting, can win his second consecutive stakes – and first at the group level – in Saturday’s Group 2 York Stakes at York Racecourse in northern England.
Trained by Luca Cumani, Afsare has been in excellent form. A 5-year-old gelding by Dubawi, Afsare was second in the Group 1 Premio Presidente della Rebubblica in Italy in May and won the Gala Stakes at Sandown Park in England as the favorite on July 6. Both races were over 1 1/4 miles on turf.
The York Stakes, which drew a field of 11, is run over about 1 5/16 miles.
A day after Nathaniel finished a game second to Danedream by a nose in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, Great Heavens, Nathaniel’s full sister, won her fourth consecutive race in the Group 1 Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh. William Buick, who turned 24 on Sunday, rode both for trainer John Gosden.
Sat, 07/21/2012 - 13:14
The German filly Danedream’s first longshot victory in a major European race, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe last fall, came in a romp, but her second, on Saturday at Ascot in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, came down to a head bob, with Danedream beating the race’s gallant 2011 winner Nathaniel by a nose.
Great Heavens and Princess Highway, 3-year-old fillies who have won their last three starts, are the top contenders in Sunday’s Group 1 Irish Oaks at the Curragh.
Great Heavens could be the latest raiding success in Ireland for British trainer John Gosden. Earlier this month, he won the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes in Ireland with Izzi Top.
Great Heavens, by Galileo, won her group stakes debut in the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock Park in England on July 7. The Irish Oaks will be her first start outside of England.
Mayson, a 20-1 outsider, took advantage of a rain-soaked course to win his first Group 1 race in Saturday’s July Cup at Newmarket, England.
The race did not live up to full expectations. Bated Breath, the 2011 July Cup runner-up and the future-book favorite for this year’s race, was scratched early Saturday because of track conditions. His absence, and the withdrawal of two others, left a field of 12 in Britain’s biggest sprint of the month.
The French filly Giofra scored a 10-1 upset in Friday’s Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket, England, recording her second major stakes win of the year.
Ridden by Christophe Soumillon, Giofra caught 25-1 Elusive Kate in the final furlong and won the one-mile race by a half-length. Siyouma, a 33-1 outsider and another French invader, finished third in the field of 10 fillies and mares.
Elusive Kate, a Group 1 winner in 2011 as a 2-year-old, made her first start of 2012 in the Falmouth.