Fresh from victory in the French Oaks at Chantilly on June 10, West Wind will take on older fillies and mares for the first time at the Curragh on Saturday in the Group 1, $336,000 Pretty Polly Stakes.

Admire Moon outdueled Meisho Samson to win a sterling renewal of the Grade 1, $2omillion Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin on Sunday in a race in which the first two probably earned tickets to hunt bigger game in Europe later this year.

Mountain High brought Mandesha's four-race winning streak to an end on Sunday with a convincing victory over the European champion filly in the Group 1, $538,640 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in France.

Virtually all of Japan's leading horses will line up at Hanshin on Sunday in the $2 million Takarazuka Kinen.

Dubai Duty Free winner Admire Moon, Japanese champion miler Daiwa Major, champion 3-year-old filly Kawakami Princess, Melbourne Cup runner-up Pop Rock, and the last two winners of the Japanese Derby, Vodka and Meisho Samson, make this 1 3/8-mile Grade 1 contest worth getting excited about.

Mandesha puts her glittering four-race winning streak on the line at Saint-Cloud on Sunday when she takes on males for the first time in the Group 1, $535,000 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

A winner at the Grand Prix distance of 1 1/2 miles at the Group 1 level when she landed the Prix Vermeille in September, Mandesha was less than brilliant in her seasonal debut on May 30, when she won the Group 2 Prix Corrida against fillies and mares over the same course and distance she will encounter on Sunday.

NEW YORK - The victory of Rags to Riches in the Belmont Stakes is cause for celebration for anyone who likes a good story as well as for those few of us in this country who still believe that stamina is at least as important as speed on the Thoroughbred resume.

As the winner of an Indy 500 and a Formula One champion, Mario Andretti had a reputation as a race car driver with his foot always pressed firmly to the floor. In Miss Andretti, Australia has produced a sprinter who takes after him in more than name alone.

The winner of the Group 2 King's Stand Stakes on Royal Ascot's opening day Tuesday, the speed-loving Miss Andretti will be wheeled right back on Saturday for the Group 1, $697,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes, and anyone looking for a way to beat her and her 7-4 antepost price had better adjust their thinking cap.

Notnowcato and Dylan Thomas will pick up where they left off at Royal Ascot on Wednesday in the 1 1/4-mile $693,000 Prince of Wales's Stakes.

NEW YORK - Who says that horses bred in Kentucky can't stay a mile and a half?

With Light Shift and Peeping Fawn, Kentucky-breds both, finishing one-two in last Friday's English Oaks, a day before the Kentucky-bred Legerete won the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont at Chantilly, there should be nationwide rejoicing over the fact that the Bluegrass State can breed fillies capable of getting 1 1/2 miles at the highest level. A closer look, however, reveals that these three fillies are far from their old Kentucky home.

There is little to choose from between Coquerelle and Vadapolina in Group 1, $1.08 million Prix de Diane, the 1 5/16-mile French Oaks, which will have its 159th running at Chantilly on Sunday.

Trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, Coquerelle remained undefeated in four starts when she took the Diane's key prep, the 1 1/4-mile Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary at Longchamp May 20. The Zamindar filly will again have Christophe Lemaire in the sadddle.