All the signs point toward Godolphin winning its first British classic since 2004 as Kite Wood carries the favorite's mantle into the 234th running of the $826,000 St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster on Saturday.

Yeats will make his first start since winning his fourth Ascot Gold Cup when he faces seven rivals in the Group 1, $399,000 Irish St. Leger at the Curragh on Saturday. While the distance of 1 3/4 miles is six furlongs shorter than that of the Gold Cup, Yeats - an 8-year-old son of Sadler's Wells trained by Aidan O'Brien - won this race two years ago and has run well fresh in the past. Johnny Murtagh will be aboard.

The world's best stayer, he will be severely challenged by three dangerous foes, though.

Jockey Christophe Soumillon fractured an elbow in a spill at Nancy Racecourse, 175 miles east of Paris, on Wednesday and could miss the remainder of the French racing season as a result.

The 28-year-old Belgian, three times the champion rider in France, was aboard the front-running Burlada in a claiming race when the filly veered into the hedge. Soumillon was thrown onto the track and stepped on by a passing horse.

Misheer, mentioned by trainer Clive Brittain as a possible for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, will go off as the solid favorite in the Group 2, $132,000, Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster on Friday. Scratched from the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Aug. 30 because of heavy ground, Misheer, winner of the six-furlong Group 2 Cherry Hinton Stakes will face nine rivals in the five-furlong Flying Childers, most notably listed five-furlong Roses Stakes winner Star Rover.

The Group 2, $164,000 Park Hill Stakes at 1 3/4 miles, 132 yards is widely regarded as the filly and mare equivalent of the classic St. Leger Stakes. Thursday's renewal at Doncaster is a wide-open affair in which at least half of the 11 runners have a reasonable chance of victory.

Gitano Hernando, his trip to the Belmont Stakes canceled because of injury after his unlucky second-place finish in the Group 3 Dee Stakes at Chester on May 8, returns to action at Doncaster on Wednesday in a 1 1/4-mile, 60-yard conditions race as a prequel to a possible tilt at the Breeders' Cup Marathon.

"He wrenched an ankle after the Dee Stakes, and it took a long time for the swelling to go down," said Barry Irwin of Team Valor, which owns Gitano Hernando. "He's fine now, but the race couldn't have come up tougher."

Arson has been judged as the cause of the fire that killed two promising young apprentice jockeys in an apartment building in Norton, North Yorkshire, England, early Saturday morning. Jan Wilson, 19, and Jamie Kyne, 18, died in the fire, and two other apprentice riders, Ian Brennan and Dean Pratt, were treated at a local hospital and released.

Arson has been judged as the cause of the fire that killed two promising young apprentice jockeys in an apartment building in Norton, North Yorkshire, England early Saturday morning. Jan Wilson, 19, and Jamie Kyne, 18, died in the fire, and two other apprentice riders, Ian Brennan and Dean Pratt, were treated at a local hospital and released.

Getaway will make his third appearance in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Oct. 4 after a resounding victory in the Group 1, $356,000 Grosser Preis von Baden at Baden-Baden on Sunday. A 6-year-old son of Monsun, Getaway drew clear for a three-length triumph over Godolphin's Dubai Sheema Classic winner Eastern Anthem in the Grosser Preis to notch his sixth victory at the group race level.

Getaway is now trained in his native land by Jens Hirschberger after two seasons in France with Andre Fabre.

Aqlaam thrust himself into the Breeders' Cup Mile picture on Sunday with a solid victory in the Group 1, $570,000 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp. The 4-year-old son of Oasis Dream has overcome a series of injuries since his juvenile season and now rates as one of Europe's leading milers.