Yellowstone presented his St. Leger credentials as he landed the Group 3 Gordon Stakes on Tuesday, opening day of Glorious Goodwood's important five-day meeting.

The Tattersalls sale company in Newmarket, England, has agreed to a sponsorship deal with Betfair, the betting exchange, in which Betfair will sponsor the Tattersalls October yearling sale. Betfair's subsidiary Timeform will also sponsor three new sale-graduate races worth a total of about $4.4 million in the Tattersalls Timeform Millions series at Newmarket racecourse.

Asiatic Boy, the star sensation at last winter's meeting at Nad Al Sheba, gets his acid test at Goodwood on Wednesday when he lines up against recent Royal Ascot Group 1 winners Excellent Art and Ramonti in the $610,000 Sussex Stakes.

Darjina followed in the prodigious footsteps of Mandesha and Divine Proportions on Sunday by winning a first-rate renewal of the Group 1, $341,000 Group 1 Prix d'Astarte at Deauville.

The $343,000 Prix d'Astarte has drawn its usual sterling field of fillies and mares on Sunday, opening day of Deauville's prestigious summer meeting, but the rain-softened ground that is plaguing European racing this season threatens many of the favorites who will line up for Group 1 mile.

Ascot's midsummer centerpiece, the $1.5 million King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, is normally one of the four or five best races in the world. It has been cut up badly this year, however, as all three of Europe's major Derby winners - Authorized, Soldier of Fortune, and Lawman - are bypassing Saturday's 1 1/2-mile Group 1 contest.

And with soft ground or worse predicted, this year's renewal, which has drawn just seven runners, none of them 3-year-olds, could produce a surprise result.

Yutaka Take became the all-time winningest jockey in Japan Racing Association history on Saturday when he rode Hishi Once More to victory in a six-furlong turf maiden raceat Kokura Racecourse in Kyushu. The win was the 38-year-old Take's 2,944th and surpassed the mark of Yukio Okabe, who retired in 2005 at the age of 56 with 2,943 wins.

Admire Moon, winner of the Takarazuka Kinen and the Dubai Duty Free in 2 of his last 3 starts, has been purchased by Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud for $33 million, the Japanese racing press reported on Tuesday.

A 4-year-old Japanese-bred son of End Sweep, Admire Moon won the Group 1, $5 million Duty Free going 1 1/8 miles at Nad Al Sheba with Sheikh Mohammed present in the grandstand. Two starts later, on June 24 and back in Japan, he won a high-class renewal of the 1 3/8-mile $2 million Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin.

Natagora made it four in a row against colts at Maisons-Laffitte, blazing her way to victory in the Group 2, $179,000 Prix Robert Papin. Trained by Pascal Bary, the filly defeated another filly, the Italian-bred Magritte, by three-quarters of a length, covering the straight 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:03.02 on good ground.

Last year's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, Rail Link, was retired on Thursday, one day after his owners at Juddmonte Farms had announced that he would not run this year. Having strained a tendon, Rail Link, a 4-year-old son of Dansili, is likely to head to Juddmonte's Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket, England. There he would step into the shoes of the recently deceased Rainbow Quest. Juddmonte's racing manager, Teddy Grimthorpe, said that an official announcement on Rail Link's stud plans would be forthcoming.