Breeders' Cup Turf candidate Sixties Icon goes in search of his second consecutive Group 3 win at Newbury on Saturday when he takes on Geordieland in the 1 5/8-mile, $112,000 Geoffrey Freer Stakes.

The Jeremy Noseda-trained winner of the 2006 St. Leger Stakes, Sixties Icon appears to be back to his best after an operation to clear up a breathing problem aided his victory two weeks ago in Goodwood's 1 1/2-mile Glorious Stakes.

Trainer Freddy Head's hot streak got even hotter at Deauville on Sunday when Marchand d'Or landed the $375,000 Prix Maurice de Gheest, becoming the first horse in French racing history to win the same Group 1 race three times in succession.

A half-hour earlier, Avanti Polonia had added to Head's triumphant day by winning the 1 9/16-mile, Group 2 Prix de Pomone.

Gerald Mosse’s two wins led the European team to a 94-57 victory over the Rest of the World team in the Shergar Cup jockey compeition at Ascot on Saturday. Yutaka Take rode two winners for the Rest of the World side, for whom Russell Baze had two second-place finishers, the second of which helped propel his team into second place ahead of the British team in the four-team competition. The Irish team finished fourth.

Europe's two hottest trainers, Aidan O'Brien and Freddy Head, square off in the $383,000 Prix Maurice de Gheest, a 6 1/2-furlong Group 1 dash at Deauville on Sunday.

Head, the winner of three Group 1 races in the last month, will saddle the recent July Cup winner and two-time defending Maurice de Gheest titleholder, Marchand d'Or, while O'Brien, who has won 17 Group 1 contests since April 27, sends out the July Cup runner-up US Ranger.

NEW YORK – The Prix du Moulin de Longchamp on Sept. 7 is shaping up as the definitive European prep for this year’s Breeders’ Cup. The one-mile Group 1 affair is attracting the attention of Henrythenavigator and Goldikova, both of whom have been committed to Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita on Oct. 25, but not for the same race.

Russell Baze and Jorge Ricardo, the two winningest jockeys in the history of Thoroughbred racing, will team up with Japan's all-time leading rider, Yutaka Take, at Ascot on Saturday as members of the Rest of the World team in the Shergar Cup jockey challenge.

Goldikova gave Freddy Head the biggest win of his training career at Deauville on Sunday as she outran both Darjina and Natagora in the $395,000 Prix Rothschild, the premier Group 1 mile for fillies and mares in Europe.

Goldikova gave Freddy Head the biggest win of his training career at Deauville on Sunday as she outran both Darjina and Natagora in the $395,000 Prix Rothschild, the premier Group 1 mile for fillies and mares in Europe.

The 61-year-old trainer, sister of trainer Criquette Head-Maarek and son of breeder/owner Alec Head, is renowned in America for his twin Breeders' Cup Mile triumphs aboard Miesque. He was scoring his third Group 1 victory of the year, following Marchand d'Or's win in the July Cup and Tamayuz's score in the Prix Jean Prat.

You don't win as many big races as Aidan O'Brien does without a little bit of luck sometimes. That is exactly what the master of Ballydoyle received at Goodwood on Saturday when his Halfway to Heaven held on from a luckless Lush Lashes to land the $395,000 Nassau Stakes and give O'Brien his 17th Group 1 victory of the year.

Natagora and Darjina will duke it out in the Group 1, $390,000 Prix Rothschild as French fillies take center stage in the first of five Sunday cards at Deauville's prestigious August meeting. Formerly known as the Prix d'Astarte, the Rothschild has drawn a sterling field of nine fillies and mares to its straight mile.