The Group 1, $499,000 Prix Morny at Deauville on Sunday rates as the best 2-year-old race in the world thus far this year, as all five horses in the six-furlong dash are already group-race winners.

The six-length victory of Canford Cliffs in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot earned a Racing Post Rating of 119, better than any juvenile in Europe. But Canford Cliffs, a Richard Hannon-trained son of Tagula who will be ridden by Richard Hughes, has been rested since June 16 and may be vulnerable to any one of his four accomplished rivals.

Borderlescott successfully defended his title in the $396,000 Nunthorpe Stakes at York on Friday with a game neck score over Benbaun in the five-furlong, Group 1 sprint.

Trained in nearby Wetherby by Robin Bastiman, Borderlescott rewarded his faithful local backers to the tune of 9-1 as he upset all of the powerful yards from the south of England for the second successive year.

Dar Re Mi handed Sariska a stunning defeat in the Group 1, $512,000 Yorkshire Oaks at York on Thursday, beating the odds-on dual Oaks winner decisively by three-quarters of a length.

Two years ago, Kingsgate Native won the five-furlong Nunthorpe Stakes, beating older horses as a 2-year-old. Third in the race last year, the Michael Stoute-trained son of Mujadil will start as the favorite for the Group 1, $397,000 dash Friday, closing day of York's four-day Ebor Meeting. His main challenger could be the juvenile Radiohead.

Sea the Stars got the job done at the business end of Tuesday's $980,000 Juddmonte International Stakes at York as he ran down the classy miler Mastercraftsman in the 1 1/4-mile, 88-yard Group 1 event. The race, however, was strictly a tactical affair as the withdrawal on Monday of Tartan Bearer due to lameness reduced the field to just four: Sea the Stars and Mastercraftsman plus a pair of outclassed Aidan O'Brien-employed pacesetters for Mastercraftsman.

Trainer John Oxx is keeping his fingers crossed in hopes that the weather will remain dry at York so Sea the Stars will be able to take his place in the $992,000 Juddmonte International Stakes on Tuesday. The world's highest rated horse, Sea the Stars will run in the 1 1/4-mile, 88-yard, Group 1 test only if the going is good or better.

"I think she is better than Miesque," said Freddy Head of his superb filly Goldikova after last year's Breeders' Cup Mile winner romped to a six-length victory in the $852,000 Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville on Sunday. And Head should know, as he rode Miesque to all eight of her Group or Grade 1 triumphs and has now trained Goldikova to six of the same, with the strong possibility of more to follow.

The undefeated Hungarian sprint sensation Overdose is out for the year, his owner Zoltan Mikoczy announced on Friday. Plagued by hoof problems throughout his career, Overdose threw both his front shoes when winning a five-furlong stake by eight lengths at Kincsem Park in Budapest on April 19, but new shoes only worsened the problem. Having made little progress in a rehabilitation center near Nantes, France, he was sent to Amanda Perret's yard in Sussex, England, where the decision to end his season was made.

Godolphin, which won six races in England on Friday, remained hot on Saturday as Kite Wood emerged as a leading candidate for the St. Leger Stakes with a 3 1/2-length victory in the Group 3, $107,000 Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury.

The only 3-year-old in the field of eight, the 11-10 son of Galileo prevailed under Frankie Dettori over the veteran Halicarnassus, clocking 2:48.87 on good to firm ground for the 1 5/8-miles, 61 yards.

Goldikova returns to the races at Deauville on Sunday just two weeks after her brilliant victory in the Prix Rothschild. The occasion is the Group 1, $857,000 Prix Jacques le Marois on the same straight mile on which she scored a handy 1 1/2-length victory over French 1000 Guineas winner Elusive Wave and 10 other fillies and mares on Aug. 1.