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.

Perhaps the most contentious field in the 150-year history of the Prix de la Foret tops the bill on the first day of Arc Weekend at Longchamp Saturday when 13 horses line up for the seven-furlong Group 1 contest worth $352,000.

Tony Ryan, the owner of the breeding farms Castleton Lyons in Lexington, Ky., and Lyons Demesne in Co. Kildare, Ireland, died at Lyons Demesne on Wednesday. He was 71.

The biggest weekend of the European racing season gets under way Friday at Newmarket with the running of two key juvenile Group 1s, the Middle Park Stakes for colts and the Cheveley Park Stakes for fillies. Both run at six furlongs and worth $347,000, they kick off a three-day cross-channel cornucopia of championship-class racing that will climax on Sunday at Longchamp with the 86th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

A $3.4 million Sadler's Wells filly brought a glamorous note to Tuesday's second session of the Goffs Million yearling sale in Ireland and helped reverse declines at Monday's opening session.

A gray daughter of Albanova sold for about $3,408,000, to Coolmore representative Demi O'Byrne, easily topping the day's selling. The filly is out of an Alzao mare who was champion older mare in Germany in 2004.