With the month-long horsemen's strike in Italy having been resolved, Sunday's Group 1 Premio Roma at the Capannelle in Rome will proceed as scheduled. The $247,000 race, which has been won by a foreign-trained horse each of the last five years, includes just one foreign invader in the 3-year-old filly Nahoodh, who is trained in England by Mark Johnston.

Fernando Jara was shut out in five rides in his return to action at Nad Al Sheba on Thursday night. The man who rode Invasor to five Group or Grade 1 victories, including the 2007 Dubai World Cup, was making his debut as contract rider for Doug Watson in the UAE after having suffered a broken shoulder in a spill at Hollywood Park on Nov. 11, 2007.

Watson, the champion trainer in the UAE last season, did have one winner in the last of six races on the card in Lucky Ray, who took a 1 1/4-mile handicap on dirt under Irishman Daragh O'Donohue.

MELBOURNE, Australia – They came from near and far for the 148th Melbourne Cup on Tuesday at Flemington Racecourse, but the race trophy stayed put when Australia’s legendary trainer Bart Cummings landed his record 12th Cup, as Viewed nosed out European invader Bauer in a thrilling end to the two-mile race.

The 2-year-old Zafisio reveled in the heavy ground at Saint-Cloud on Sunday, defeating fellow British invader Prince Siegfried in the $323,000 Criterium International by a head while traveling the mile in 1:46.10. Group 3 Prix Thomas Bryon winner Silver Frost was third, a half-length behind the runner-up.

Vodka outdueled Daiwa Scarlet in the $2.6 million Autumn Tenno Sho at Tokyo Racecourse on Sunday before a crowd of 121,961, beating her fellow 4-year-old filly by the slimmest of noses in a photo that took the stewards 20 minutes to decide.

Victory for the Katsuhiko Sumii-trained Vodka, who in 2007 became the first filly to win the Japanese Derby since 1943, also produced a track record of 1:57.20 for 1 1/4 miles. This year's Japanese Derby winner, Deep Sky, was just a neck farther behind in third and only a nose in front of fourth-place Company.

Septimus, the defending European champion stayer, should be good enough to handle his highweight impost of 129 pounds in Tuesday's two-mile Melbourne Cup Handicap at Flemington. The $3.8 million race has attracted so many European raiders that Australian trainer Bart Cummings, an 11-time winner of "the race that stops a nation," has called for a limit to be imposed on foreign participants.

Deep Sky and Vodka will square off in a battle of Japanese Derby winners at Tokyo on Sunday in the $2.6 million, 1 1/4-mile Autumn Tenno Sho, the major local prep for the 1 1/2-mile Japan Cup on Nov. 30.

Trainer Yves de Nicolay can cap a career year at Saint-Cloud on Sunday when he sends out Silver Frost in the Group 1, $323,000 Criterium International for 2-year-old colts and fillies going a mile.

Yeats ended his Longchamp jinx on Sunday by winning the Group 1, $310,000 Prix Royal-Oak, the French equivalent of the St. Leger Stakes. After losses in the last two runnings of the Prix du Cadran at the Parisian track, Yeats swept clear in the stretch with Johnny Murtagh riding for a 1 1/2-length victory over Allegretto at 9-2.

In providing trainer Aidan O'Brien with his 22nd Group 1 winner of the year, Yeats covered the 1 15/16 miles on good ground in 3:19.30.

Seven jockeys who ignored or failed to see the false-start flag in the Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp on Oct. 5 were fined $2,000 each by France-Galop on Thursday.

The race was declared void after the gate of Fleeting Spirit failed to open. Andreas Suborics, who rode the undefeated Hungarian-trained Overdose to to a first-place finish, was fined for continuing to race after a false start was signaled, as were Frankie Dettori, Jim Crowley, Paul Hanagan, Darryll Holland, Adrian Nicholls, and Kevin Shea.