Dual classic winner Lope de Vega will be tested by Dick Turpin in the Group 1, $500,000 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly on Sunday.

The one-mile race for 3-year-olds represents a big cut-back in distance from the 1 5/16-mile French Derby, but one Lope de Vega should be able to handle. Earlier this season, he captured the one-mile French 2000 Guineas.

Stotsfold remains on course for the Arlington Million after his game, weight-giving victory in the listed Gala Stakes at Sandown Park on Friday.

Deauville's four-day July meeting that serves as a table setter for its prestigious August meeting opened on Thursday with the seaside track's annual juvenile oddity, the listed Prix Yacowlef for horses making their racing debuts. Won in the past by Riverman, Dahlia, Miswaki, and Machiavellian, it has been dominated in recent years by fillies.

On Thursday, fillies filled the first five places as the Robert Collet-trained Wizz Kid, a daughter of Prix Morny winner Whipper, beat Katerini by 1 1/2 lengths, getting the straight five furlongs in a stakes record 57.90 seconds.

It's boy vs. girl at Sandown Park on Saturday when Twice Over and Dar Re Mi go toe-to-toe in the $750,000 Eclipse Stakes. The 1 1/4-mile, Group 1 stakes is the first weight-for-age contest on the British calendar but has drawn just a single 3-year-old in Viscount Nelson.

It was all Aidan O'Brien in the $1.5 million Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday as Cape Blanco led home a Ballydoyle one-two-three in the mile and a half classic. Cape Blanco rewarded the faith rider Johnny Murtagh had in having chosen him from among the five Coolmore runners in the race.

Youmzain suffered yet another heartbreaking defeat at Saint-Cloud on Sunday when the three-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe runner-up lost the Group 1, $493,000 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud by a nose to Plumania. Rated in last by Richard Hughes in the field of seven, Youmzain rallied strongly through the final furlong but lost the bob to the 6-1 winner.

Nakayama Festa sprung a 36-1 surprise at the expense of Buena Vista in the Grade 1, $2.8 million Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse near Osaka on Sunday as he collared the 7-5 favorite near the line for a handy half-length victory. Trained by Yoshitaka Ninomiya and ridden by Yoshitomi Shibata, the winning 4-year-old son of Stay Gold covered the 1 3/8 miles on firm ground in 2:13 flat.

Chinese White saved her best for last - and under difficult circumstances - at the Curragh on Saturday as she made off with the Group 1, $247,000 Pretty Polly Stakes while in foal to Cape Cross.

After much hand-wringing, Johnny Murtagh has decided that his mount in the $1.5 million Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday will be Cape Blanco. With his choice of five Aidan O'Brien-trained runners, his selection is so informative that Cape Blanco, a Galileo colt, is likely to go off as the favorite in the 1 1/2-mile classic.

Buena Vista can take the measure of her 16 male opponents in the $2.8 million, Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen at 1 3/8 miles at Hanshin on Sunday. An unlucky second to Dar Re Mi in the 1 1/2-mile Dubai Sheema Classic on March 27, this admirable 4-year-old daughter of Special Week returned to Japan for a sharp score in the Grade 1 Victoria Mile in a display of virtuosity rarely seen on the racetrack these days. Moreover, she beat many of her main Sunday rivals when she won the 1 3/8-mile, Grade 2 Kyoto Kinen in February.