A More Than Ready filly that sold for about $600,000 got William Inglis and Co.'s select weanling and breeding stock sale off to a good start Thursday in Sydney, Australia.

Coolmore Stud purchased the filly, a daughter of the Danehill mare Milanova, from Tyreel Stud's consignment. Danehill was a Coolmore sire, and the filly's family includes Coolmore's popular new sire in Australia, Encosta de Lago. Her dam, Milanova, was an Australian Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed runner and is a full sister to Holy Roman Emperor.

Two of the biggest 1 1/2-mile races on the European calendar will be run on Sunday at the Curragh and Saint-Cloud. The Irish Derby is expected to feature the first three finishers from the Epsom Derby on June 7 - New Approach, Tartan Bearer, and Casual Conquest - while the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud for older horses will be led by Soldier of Fortune, last year's Irish Derby winner who last won the Coronation Cup at Epsom on the day before the Derby.

Kingsgate Native came back on just three days' rest to defeat a top-class international field of sprinters in the $740,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes on closing day at Royal Ascot on Saturday.

The Irish garden party that is Royal Ascot this year continued Friday, but whereas trainer Aidan O'Brien dominated the first three days of the meet, his compatriot Jim Bolger swept all before him on the fourth day.

Yeats ran off with his third consecutive triumph in the $490,000 Ascot Gold Cup on Thursday, giving trainer Aidan O'Brien and rider Johnny Murtagh their third Group 1 feature in the first three days of Royal Ascot and their fourth Group 1 tally at the meeting overall.

Royal Ascot closes its five-day stand Saturday with Europe's richest sprint race, the $735,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes, a six-furlong affair that has attracted the attention of nine Group 1 winners from places as far flung as Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as well as England and France.

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.