Sunday could be Ladies Day at Saint-Cloud when the first three finishers from the Prix Corrida, for females, collide with three-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe runner-up Youmzain in the Group 1, $493,000 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

When does a horse win its maiden in a Group 1 race? It could be on Saturday when Remember When goes in the $264,000 Pretty Polly Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares at the Curragh. A 3-year-old daughter of Danehill Dancer trained by Aidan O'Brien, Remember When is not only winless in four starts, she will be facing older females for the first time, yet she is the 11-10 favorite in a tentative field of nine.

Carl O'Callaghan sounded an upbeat note concerning his world-class sprinter Kinsale King on Thursday as he prepares that lightly raced 5-year-old son of Yankee Victor for the Group 1 July Cup, the centerpiece of Newmarket's prestigious July Festival on the ninth of next month.

Monterosso, the ex-handicapper who won the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot on Friday, will be supplemented to Sunday's Irish Derby and run in the 1 1/2-mile classic on just nine days' rest. Owned by Sheikh Mohammed's son Hamdan bin Mohammed al-Maktoum, the Mark Johnston-trained Monterosso increases the prospective size of the derby field to 11, but it will not include Epsom Derby winner Workforce, who will wait for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 24.

Starspangledbanner set off like a rocket's red glare and never looked back to win the Group 1, $665,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes on closing day at Royal Ascot on Saturday to give trainer Aidan O'Brien and jockey Johnny Murtagh their third victories at the meeting. American hope Kinsale King was on his heels most of the way and only lost second on the line by a head to longshot Society Rock.

Lillie Langtry gave Aidan O'Brien and Coolmore their first Royal Ascot victory of 2010 on Friday as she came late to win the Group 1, $370,000 Coronation Stakes. An hour later, the Coolmore team had a second success with Mikhail Glinka in the two-mile, Group 3 Queen's Vase. Earlier, the Ken McPeek-trained Tiz My Time ran her heart out in finishing third in the Group 3 Albany Stakes after having led most of the way.

It's Kinsale King versus the world at Royal Ascot on Saturday when the Dubai Golden Shaheen winner faces 23 rivals from six different countries in the Group 1, $665,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes. The six-furlong sprint has drawn most of the best turf sprinters from around the globe in a race in which nothing can be taken for granted.

Speed or tracking speed has been the order of the day the first two days at Royal Ascot, and there is no reason to believe it will be different Friday, when Anna Salai, Evading Tempete, and Tabassum could have the Group 1, $370,000 Coronation Stakes all to themselves.

Stamina was the order of the day at Royal Ascot on Thursday, when the 20-1 Rite of Passage set a track record for 2 1/2 miles in winning the Group 1, $370,000 Ascot Gold Cup. The 6-year-old Rite of Passage outbattled Age of Aquarius by a neck in a ding-dong stretch duel to give trainer Dermot Weld his first Gold Cup triumph.

The spirit of four-time Ascot Gold Cup winner Yeats will be hanging over the Royal Meeting on Thursday, but the great stayer himself, now retired, will be absent from the festivities as 13 pretenders to his throne line up for the grueling 2 1/2-mile Group 1 test worth $370,000.

Trainer Aidan O'Brien will try to pick up where Yeats left off with Age of Aquarius, a Galileo half-brother to two group-race mile winners, but he has been only second in his last three starts going shorter and may lack the necessary stamina required to win the Gold Cup.