A Coronation Stakes without a single European 1000 Guineas winner is a rare thing, but that is the look for this year's renewal at Royal Ascot on Friday, although the $490,000 Group 1 mile will include six fillies who finished in the first four in one Guineas or another.

Duke of Marmalade proved that he is absolutely first class at Royal Ascot on Wednesday, when he powered clear to win the Group 1, $735,000 Prince of Wales's Stakes by four lengths.

Henrythenavigator set sail at Royal Ascot on Tuesday, setting a course record as he won his third straight Group 1 mile in the $485,000 St. James's Palace Stakes.

Henrythenavigator, a son of Kingmambo, was following up on a pair of 2000 Guineas triumphs at Newmarket and the Curragh. Already deemed by his trainer, Aiden O'Brien, as "the best miler I've ever trained," Henrythenavigator and his rider, Johnny Murtagh, were content to lag at the back of the eight-runner field as stablemate Minneapolis cut out some sharp early fractions.

Yeats goes in search of a third consecutive victory in the $485,000 Ascot Gold Cup on Thursday at Royal Ascot, but the undefeated French invader Coastal Path is poised to deny the Aidan O'Brien-trained 7-year-old in the 2 1/2-mile Group 1 marathon.

Kahyasi, the 1988 winner of both the Epsom and Irish derbies, was euthanized at the Haras de Bonneval farm of his owner and breeder, the Aga Khan, in France after it was discovered that he had incurable tumors. He was 23.

An Irish-bred son of the Nijinsky stallion Ile de Bourbon, Kahyasi was trained in Newmarket by Luca Cumani. He won 5 of 7 starts for earnings of $1,207,908.

Henry Cecil can return to the Royal Ascot winner's circle on Wednesday with the fast-improving Phoenix Tower, a lightly raced 4-year-old who looks like a perfect fit in the $730,000 Prince of Wales's Stakes.

A Chester House colt, bred and owned by Juddmonte Farms, Phoenix Tower suffered his first loss in five starts last month when he finished second to Creachadoir in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at one mile, but his pedigree suggests he will have no problem staying the Prince of Wales's 1 1/4 miles.

Henrythenavigator defends his pro tem leadership among European milers in the $487,000 St. James's Palace Stakes on Tuesday, opening day of Royal Ascot's five-day, $7.8 million Thoroughbred fashion show.

Catalogs for the July 8-11 Tattersalls July sale are available at , with print copies to be available June 16. The auction in Newmarket, England, has cataloged 915 horses - including broodmares, broodmare prospects, horses in training, and yearlings.

One of the featured horses is Looker, a Barathea half-sister to recent Epsom Oaks winner Look Here.

The Australian government's inquiry into 2007's widespread outbreak of equine influenza has blamed quarantine services for allowing the disease into the general horse population.

The outbreak of the highly contagious disease prompted a nationwide ban on horse transport for weeks and crippled the Australian breeding seasons in the Thoroughbred centers of New South Wales and Queensland last year.

With 17 group races worth a total of $6.1 million, next week's Royal Ascot rates as the richest meeting on the British calendar. Its five days, from Tuesday through Saturday, are a cornucopia of high-class international action with horses seeking a piece of the pie from France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand. Many of England's best will line up for the home defense in what promises to be a vintage renewal of the Royal Meeting at the track founded by Queen Anne in 1811.