Midday and Sariska renew their heated rivalry at Longchamp on Sunday when they clash in the Group 1, $444,000 Prix Vermeille, but the British raiders could have their hands full in the 1 1/2-mile filly and mare contest with the undefeated Sarafina.

White Moonstone added another feather to the cap of both Godolphin and her sire, Dynaformer, at Doncaster on Friday as she cruised to a five-length victory in the Group 2, $123,000 Champagne Stakes. She came from last to first under Frankie Dettori in the one-mile contest for juvenile fillies, leading at the three-sixteenths pole to defeat longshot Al Madina. Her time for the straight mile on good ground was 1:38.73.

Godolphin’s undefeated Janood runs into a phalanx of four Coolmore rivals in the Group 1, $254,000 Vincent O’Brien National Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

A Medicean 2-year-old, Janood improved to win Newbury’s listed Washington Singer Stakes over the same seven furlongs on Aug. 14 but is taking a major step up in class here and will be ridden for the first time by Alan Munro, as Frankie Dettori will be at Doncaster riding Rewilding in the St. Leger.

Rewilding looks difficult to beat in the 234th running of the $775,000 St. Leger Stakes, at 1 3/4 miles, 132 yards, the world’s longest- and oldest- classic, at Doncaster on Saturday. A half-brother to Dar Re Mi owned by Godolphin Racing, Rewilding was the impressive four-length winner of the key St. Leger prep, the 1 1/2-mile Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on Aug. 17, and race sponsor Ladbrokes have installed him as its 11-8 favorite.

A pair of Group 2 contests for 2-year-olds highlights the third day of Doncaster’s St. Leger Meeting on Friday with Zebedee and Meow vying for favoritism in the $122,000, five-furlong Flying Childers Stakes, while White Moonstone is the odds-on choice in the one-mile May Hill Stakes for juvenile fillies.

Kane Hekili, perhaps the best dirt horse in the history of Japanese racing, has been retired after suffering yet another debilitating injury.

An 8-year-old son of Fuji Kiseki, Kane Hekili bowed tendons in both of his forelegs and will now take up stud duties at the Yushun Stallion Station in Hokkaido.

Doncaster’s stamina-laden St. Leger meeting presents its first group race on Thursday when English Oaks runner-up Meeznah should start a lukewarm favorite in the Group 2, $153,000 Park Hill Stakes, at 1 3/4 miles, 132 yards, a race often referred to as the “fillies St. Leger.”

Beaten a neck at Epsom by the St. Leger Stakes-bound Snow Fairy, Meeznah has since finished fourth to the same filly in the Irish Oaks and fourth behind Midday in the Yorkshire Oaks. Kieren Fallon will ride for trainer David Lanigan.

Dar Re Mi, the 5-year-old mare who beat males in the $5 million Dubai Sheema Classic in March, has been retired from racing because of an accumulation of unspecified minor ailments.

The daughter of Singspiel and a half-sister to Group 1 winner River Dancer, Group 2 winner Darazari, and current St. Leger favorite Rewilding, Dar Re Mi is a three-time Group 1 winner herself, having also won last year’s Pretty Polly Stakes and the Yorkshire Oaks.

Fuisse upset more fancied opponents in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, as hot favorite Paco Boy was a listless fourth of six.

Fuisse, sent off at 9.90-1, was badly behaved before the race, unseating his jockey, Stephane Pasquier, on the way to post, and running loose. His antics caused the race to be delayed by some 15 minutes, as his five rivals waited patiently at the mile start.

Irish Derby winner Cape Blanco added to his Group 1 r é sum é with a unchallenged and emphatic victory in Saturday’s Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

All the buzz before the race was about Rip Van Winkle, the pick of the Aidan O’Brien-trained trio, and he started at 8-11 under jockey Johnny Murtagh.