With Kerrin McEvoy riding, Rajeem scored a 50-1 upset at Newmarket on Wednesday in the Group 1, $370,000 Falmouth Stakes.

McEvoy and Rajeem prompted the pedestrian pace of Nasheej before sprinting to the lead approaching the quarter pole. They then repelled the challenge of the recent Coronation Stakes winner, Nannina, and strode off to a three-quarter-length victory in the filly and mare mile. Peeress made a bid but finished an outpaced fourth, while the 6-5 favorite, Soviet Song, could manage only fifth after winning the Falmouth's two previous runnings.

Year two of the Grand Prix de Paris at its new distance of 1 1/2 miles could produce a second foreign-trained winner, as British invader Red Rocks looks to spoil Longchamp's Bastille Day celebrations in the Group 1, $639,000 contest.

By English and Irish Derby winner Galileo, Red Rocks is coming off a game second-place finish in the 1 1/2-mile Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes.

Art Deco cannot be discounted. Winner of the Group 3 Dee Stakes at Chester, he was only a length behind the victorious Darsi when fourth last time in the 1 5/16-mile French Derby.

Kerrin McEvoy tricked Jimmy Fortune, Michael Kinane, and Jamie Spencer into defeat aboard the favorites at Newmarket on Wednesday as he guided Rajeem to a 50-1 upset of the Group 1, $370,000 Falmouth Stakes. McEvoy and Rajeem prompted the pedestrian pace of Nasheej before sprinting to the lead approaching the quarter pole. They then repelled the challenge of recent Coronation Stakes winner Nannina, ridden by Fortune, and strode off to a three-quarter-length victory in the filly and mare mile.

Hoh Mike, the unluckiest of losers at Royal Ascot, will be difficult to beat in Thursday's July Stakes at Newmarket, where as many as 10 2-year-old colts could line up for the six-furlong, Group 2 dash worth $130,000.

Hoh Mike, the unluckiest of losers at Royal Ascot, will be difficult to beat in Thursday's Group 2, $130,000 July Stakes at Newmarket, where as many as 10 2-year-old colts could line up for the six-furlong dash.

Soviet Song defends her two-time Falmouth Stakes title on Wednesday, opening day of Newmarket's three-day July Meeting, against fellow Group 1 winners Peeress and Nannina in the $368,000 mile for fillies and mares.

Trained by James Fanshawe, Soviet Song was perhaps the most impressive of all Royal Ascot winners last month when she cruised to victory in the Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes. First run in 1911, the Falmouth has never been won by any filly or mare three times. Sonic Lady also won it twice in a row, in 1986 and 1987.

Stormy River garnered his initial Group 1 laurels at Chantilly on Sunday as he came with a strong late run to win the one-mile $511,000 Prix Jean Prat.

David Junior took advantage of a fast pace to blast from last to first in the $836,000 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park in England on Saturday as favored Ouija Board ran into repeated trouble and finished fifth.

Kieren Fallon has been banned from riding in England, Scotland, and Wales after the British Horseracing Regulatory Authority ruled on Friday that his license to ride would not be renewed because of race-fixing charges filed against him earlier in the week.

Impressionnante may just be good enough to give her 11 male rivals a beating in a highly competitive renewal of the $511,000 Prix Jean Prat, Sunday's Group 1 mile for 3-year-olds at Chantilly.