Dangerous Midge, the 9-2 winner of the Group 3, $88,000 Arc Trial at Newbury on Friday, won’t be running in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, but he is under consideration for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

A Lion Heart colt, Dangerous Midge cruised clear under Martin Dwyer for a four-length victory over the 8-11 favorite, Rainbow Peak, as the Godolphin-owned Campanologist, saddled with a seven-pound penalty for two recent Group 1 scores in Germany, was an unthreatening third, two lengths behind the runner-up. The time for the 1 3/8 miles on good ground was a very slow 2:19.45.

The Japanese Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf hopeful Red Desire arrived at Aqueduct on Thursday to prepare for the Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont Park on Oct. 2. Trained by Mikio Matsunaga, the 4-year-old daughter of the Sunday Silence stallion Manhattan Cafe will spend two days in quarantine at the Big A before transferring to Belmont on Saturday.

The Group 3, $88,000 Arc Trial, the Arc prep that rarely produces a runner in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, will have its 14th running at Newbury on Friday.

Only one of the race’s winners has ever run in the Arc in the same year he has won the Trial, that being Fantastic Light, who finished 11th behind Montjeu in 1999. The best Arc finish by an Arc Trial participant came in its inaugural running of 1997 when third-place Swain was seventh in the Arc behind Peintre Celebre.

Midday won the Group 1, $445,000 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp on Sunday as her arch-rival Sariska refused to race for the second time in a row and was retired immediately after the race.

The dramatic events surrounding the highlight of Arc Trial Day saw Midday win at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe distance of 1 1/2 miles for the second time, but trainer Henry Cecil said afterwards that she would bypass the Arc and go directly to Churchill Downs for a defense of her title in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, which will be run at 1 3/8 miles this year.

It is safe to say that when Olivier Peslier is called to Ireland or England to ride in a big race, it is unwise not to back his mount

Arctic Cosmos scored a surprise in the $770,000 St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster on Saturday as Rewilding, banged down to even-money favoritism, trudged home a well beaten seventh, 6 1/2 lengths behind the 12-1 winner.

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.