Goldikova will have company on her trip to Churchill Downs in search of a third Breeders’ Cup Mile title. On Wednesday her owners, the Wertheimer brothers, announced that they intend to run their Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner, Plumania, in either the Breeders’ Cup Turf or the Filly and Mare Turf.

The stars will be come out at Newmarket on Saturday afternoon when the headquarters of British racing will conduct its annual Champions’ Day program. Topping the bill are a pair of red-hot Group 1’s, the Champion Stakes at 1 1/4 miles for 3-year-olds and up, and the seven-furlong Dewhurst Stakes, Britain’s definitive 2-year-old contest.

Japan’s Breeders’ Cup Classic hopeful, Espoir City, had his six-race winning streak ended on Monday when he finished second to the record-setting Oro Meister in the Nambu Hai Mile Championship at Morioka.

Behkabad will aim for the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs, where he could have a chance to avenge his loss to Workforce in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. The Aga Khan’s racing manager, Georges Rimaud, announced on Tuesday that the Turf is the intended target for Behkabad, the Arc’s unlucky fourth-place finisher.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Outofthecoulds lived up to his name by coming from well off the pace to win the $100,000 Jack Diamond Futurity for 2-year-old colts and geldings on the final day of the Hastings meet Monday.

Outoftheclouds, with Dave Wilson aboard, was eased off of a fast and contested early pace in the 6 ½-furlong race. He made his move while going three wide on the stretch turn, and after taking the lead in the late stretch, he easily held off the belated move made by Too Much Dirt.

PARIS – Workforce , winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, was mentioned as a possibility for the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Monday, one day after his game head victory over Nakayama Festa at Longchamp.

Speaking to the Racing Post, Juddmonte Farm’s racing manager, Teddy Grimthorpe, said, “Workforce seems to have come out of the Arc very well. We’ll see how she is during the next couple of weeks and then make a decision on whether to run him again this year, possibly in the Breeders’ Cup Turf.”

PARIS – The Workforce that showed up Sunday at Longchamp was not the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes flop, but it was the record-setting winner of the Epsom Derby. In a remarkable feat of training, Michael Stoute nurtured a superb performance out of the enigmatic Workforce to win the $5.33 million Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, setting off scenes of joy by his numerous British backers who had banged him down to 6.60-1 shortly before post time.

PARIS – Goldikova served notice that she will be in top form for her attempt at an unprecedented third consecutive Breeders’ Cup Mile title when she won the $333,000 Prix de la Foret at Longchamp on Sunday, defeating Paco Boy by a rather comfortable half-length in one of six Group 1 races on the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe undercard.

PARIS – The $173,000, one-mile Prix Daniel Wildenstein has occasionally thrown up a Breeders’ Cup Mile runner. Domedriver vaulted from victory in the race in 2002 to win the Mile, but there will be no Mile candidate emerging from Saturday’s renewal at Longchamp, where Royal Bench took advantage of the very soft ground to win for the first time at the Group 2 level.

PARIS – Cape Blanco can use his stirring victory in the Irish Champion Stakes to vault to glory in the $5.33 million Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, despite the likelihood of soft ground at Longchamp on Sunday. While the Galileo 3-year-old has been eased out to as high as 9-1 by some British bookmakers of late, he won twice on soft turf as a 2-year-old, so his poor effort in a soft ground French Derby might be excused.