Soneva rallied from last to first under a cool ride by Christophe Soumillon to take the Group 3, $113,000 Prix de Lieurey at Deauville on Thursday, confirming her 2.40-1 favoritism. A 3-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Cherokee Run and trained by Yves de Nicolay, she ran out a two-length winner over Emergency, clocking a tepid 1:45.50 for the one-turn mile on good-to-soft ground. Wilside, winner of the recent Group 3 Prix Chloe, was third, one length farther back.

Sea the Stars has been nominated to Tuesday's Juddmonte International Stakes at York, but trainer John Oxx has warned that the highest-rated horse in the world will not run in the 1 1/4-mile, 88-yard Group 1 contest if the ground is not at least good or better on the day.

During its 30 years as a listed race, the Prix de Lieurey has produced a number of future North American stakes winners, among them Kool Kat Katie (E.P. Taylor), Heaven's Command (Violet Handicap), and Bright Abundance (Noble Damsel), as well as three-time ungraded stakes winner Zeiting. In the 1980s the Lieurey was won by both Pasadoble, the dam of two-time Breeders' Cup Mile winner Miesque, and Albertine, the dam of Breeders' Cup Classic winner Arcangues.

King's Apostle is being considered for the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint after his narrow victory in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville on Sunday, a Win and You're In race.

With Nad Al Sheba now officially history, the 2009-2010 Emirates Racing Authority season will be highlighted by the opening of the new state-of-the-art Meydan Racecourse on Jan. 28 with the running of Round 1 of the Maktoum Challenge, the first local prep for the Dubai World Cup, which will be run March 27.

Normally, Nad Al Sheba would have opened for business in November, but the Meydan grandstand will not be completed until after the new year. The Meydan racing surfaces, however, will be completed in time for training on Oct. 31.

Deauville will host its first Win and You're In Breeders' Cup race on Sunday when the winner of the Group 1, $287,000 Prix Maurice de Gheest will automatically qualify for the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. Three Group 1 winners are included among the 12 who will go forward in the straight 6 1/2-furlong dash, but any one of seven could win without causing a surprise.

Goldikova's handy victory in the $360,000 Prix Rothschild at Deauville on Sunday echoed her scintillating performance in the Breeders' Cup Mile last autumn and left no doubt that she is back at her best. In winning her second Group 1 mile in succession, she became the first filly to win the Rothschild, known as the Prix d'Astarte until last year, twice in a row.

Midday took advantage of a midafternoon rainstorm that softened the turf at Goodwood on Saturday to win the $329,000 Nassau Stakes.

Third last time on heavy ground in the Irish Oaks to Sariska, the same filly that had beaten her by a head in the English Oaks, Midday was going away at the end of this 1 1/4-mile Group 1, ultimately beating Rainbow View by 2 1/4 lengths.

Goldikova will attempt to build on her July 8 win in the Falmouth Stakes when she runs Sunday at Deauville in the $351,000 Prix Rothschild, a straight Group 1 mile for fillies and mares.

Moneycantbuymelove can improve off a pair of sharp listed race scores to take the Group 1, $327,000 Nassau Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile race at Goodwood on Saturday.

Trained by Michael Bell, Moneycantbuymelove won her maiden winning the Height of Fashion Stakes over the Nassau course and distance in May before cutting back to a mile to take the Sandringham Handicap at Royal Ascot last month.