French raider Sahpresa captured the Sun Chariot Stakes for the third year in a row, winning the Group 1 race by one length over Chachamaidee on Saturday at Newmarket in England.

A horse winning the same stakes three straight years is impressive, but Sahpresa’s task was made easier by the abject failure of three main rivals. Second choice Alanza finished a one-paced sixth, fourth choice Together checked in seventh, and third-favorite Timepiece, who had beaten Sahpresa at Newmarket in July, was last of eight.

The Godolphin-owned Campanologist will have jockey Frankie Dettori aboard in Sunday’s Group 1 Preis Von Europa at Cologne, Germany.

Trained by Saeed bin Suroor, Campanologist, 6, will be after his third Group 1 win in Germany in the last 14 months, and his first win of 2011 after losses in his first six races this year. In his most recent start, Campanologist was second in the Group 2 Bosphorus Cup in Turkey on Sept. 4.

Lyric of Light earned an automatic berth for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4, and a low future-book price for the 2012 English 1000 Guineas, after winning Friday’s Group 1 Shadwell Fillies’ Mile for 2-year-olds at Newmarket, England.

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From a local perspective, the big race on Saturday’s card at Newmarket in England is the prestigious Cambridgeshire Handicap, a nine-furlong cavalry charge with 35 horses entered. But from an international vantage point, the two Group 1’s on the Newmarket card, the Sun Chariot for fillies at one mile, and the Cheveley Park for 2-year-old fillies, take center stage.

Trainer Michael Stoute, a regular participant in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, might have another horse for the race’s 2011 edition in the 3-year-old Sea Moon. Sea Moon most recently finished third as the favorite in the Sept. 10 St. Leger Stakes over 1 3/4 miles at Doncaster, but in his previous start won the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes over 1 1/2 miles by eight lengths.

Sarafina won her third race in a row, bulling between horses deep in the stretch run to win the Prix Foy by a head over the Japanese horse Hiruno d’Amour and cement her position as one of the favorites for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in three weeks.

The Group 1 Prix Niel for 3-year-olds over 1 1/2 miles on Sunday at Longchamp in Paris is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In race, meaning the race winner gains an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf  as well as $20,000 in travel expenses to ship to Churchill Downs for the race. But the BC Turf probably does not sit foremost in the mind of the trainer of the likely race favorite, Meandre.

Saturday’s card at the Curragh features the Group 1 National Stakes at seven furlongs for 2-year-olds, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In race for the BC Juvenile Turf. The National is set to go with a field of nine, with Power and Dragon Pulse the two antepost favorites in the betting.

Goldikova was withdrawn last weekend from consideration for the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp on Sunday, but Goldikova’s 3-year-old half-sister, Galikova, will see Group 1 action on the card in Paris as one of six horses in the Prix Vermeille.

Besides the pair of Group 1’s, Sunday’s Longchamp program also includes the Prix Foy and Prix Niel, both historically important prep races for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.