Mandesha, last year's champion 3-year-old filly in Europe, has been retired by her owner, Princess Zahra Aga Khan, after her seventh-place finish in Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Louis Romanet, director general of France-Galop, the ruling body of French racing, was awarded the Jockey Club Medal for his exceptional contributions to the Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry on Monday. The presentation was made by the Jockey Club's president, Alan Marzelli, at the annual meeting in Paris of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, which Romanet chairs.

Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza is continuing to spread in New South Wales, most recently prompting a lockdown at the Rosehill racecourse near Sydney on Saturday after a number of horses there received positive tests for the highly contagious respiratory disease.

The affected horses at Rosehill had received the first of two vaccines against equine influenza eight days earlier and were due to receive the second-stage booster shot this week, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

PARIS - Kieren Fallon, who always seems to find himself at the center of one controversy or another, extricated himself from a hornets nest of incidents to emerge victorious aboard Dylan Thomas in the $2.8 million Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday.

PARIS - Satwa Queen rallied between horses to win the $353,000 Group 1 Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp on Sunday, improving on her second-place finish in last year's race. But unlike last year, when she came to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare afterwards, she is unlikely to travel to America as her trainer Jean de Roualle is considering a return to Sha Tin for the Hong Kong Cup.

Majestic Roi took a bold step forward at Newmarket on Saturday when she won a high-class renewal of the Group 1, $377,000 Sun Chariot Stakes. The Street Cry filly had four Group 1 winners behind her after she came from well out of it for a sharp three-quarter-length victory over Nannina.

A chart in Sunday’s editions listed the field of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp incorrectly. The horses were listed by program number, not in post position order.

Natagora, running for the first time in her brief career against her own sex, led throughout at Newmarket on Friday to take the Group 1, $346,000 Cheveley Park Stakes by a neck from the hard-charging Fleeting Spirit.

The winner of four straight against males in France, the Pascal Bary-trained Natagora was ridden by Christophe Lemaire, and she held on gamely at 7-2, clocking 1:11.55 for the six furlongs on good ground.

Irish Derby winner Soldier of Fortune can get the better of Epsom Derby winner Authorized on Sunday in the $2.8 million Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp, where the difference between the two might be decided by the condition of the ground.

Echelon, the winner of four group races this year, will attempt to add the Group 1, $355,000 Sun Chariot Stakes to her haul on Saturday when she heads an evenly matched field of 10 fillies and mares going a mile at Newmarket.

A Danehill mare trained by Michael Stoute, Echelon earned her last two victories at the Sun Chariot distance in Goodwood's Group 2 Celebration Mile against males and in the Group 1 Matron Stakes against her own sex at Leopardstown. A Group 3 winner at Newmarket in May, Echelon will have the best young rider in England, Ryan Moore, in the saddle.