Pride provided a convincing argument that she is the best filly or mare in the world when she stormed home for a three-length victory in the Group 1, $650,000 Champion Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.
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Deep Impact will be retired from racing at the end of the year, his trainer, Yasuo Ikee, announced on Wednesday. Last year's Japanese Triple Crown winner, Deep Impact finished third as the 1-2 favorite in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Oct. 1. He will stand at the Yoshida family's Shadai Stallion Station, where he has been syndicated for $42.6 million.
Ikee was in the middle of making plans for Deep Impact's late-autumn campaign as well as laying down the foundations for a tilt at next year's Arc when he was informed by owner Makoto Kaneko of the decision.
George Washington, though out of an Alysheba mare, seems more suited to a mile on turf than the BC Classic.P
To dirt, or not to dirt? That is the question John Magnier is always asking himself this time of year.
His odd, some might say bewildering, decision to run Dylan Thomas in the Jockey Club Gold Cup as a testing ground for the Breeders' Cup Classic, as well as his intimation that George Washington might run in the Classic instead of the Mile, must be regarded in the light of Coolmore's ultimate raison d'etre as a breeding operation.
Deep Impact will be retired from racing at the end of the year, his trainer, Yasuo Ikee, announced on Wednesday. Last year's Japanese Triple Crown winner, Deep Impact finished third as the 1-2 favorite in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Oct. 1. He will stand at the Yoshida family's Shadai Stallion Station, where he has been syndicated for $42.6 million.
Ikee was in the middle of making plans for Deep Impact's late-autumn campaign as well as laying down the foundations for a tilt at next year's Arc when he was informed by owner Makoto Kaneko of the decision.
The lists of the first foreign nominated horses to the Japan Cup and the Japan Cup Dirt, both of which will be run at Tokyo Racecourse on Thanksgiving weekend, offer some clues as to the future intentions of some of the biggest names in racing.
Paris, France - Mandesha extended her reputation as perhaps the world's most versatile Thoroughbred at Longchamp on Sunday with a brave victory in the $320,000 Prix de l'Opera. The The 3-year-old Desert Style filly has now won Group 1 contests in her last three starts going a mile in the Prix d'Astarte, a mile and a half in the Prix Vermeille and 1 1/4 miles in the Opera.
PARIS - What the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe has lost on Sunday, the Prix de l'Opera has gained.
The Big Three in the Arc - Deep Impact, Hurricane Run and Shirocco - have scared off some of the best fillies and mares in the world, but the 1 1/4-mile, $325,000 Prix de l'Opera has picked many of them up in what should be a brilliant renewal of a race that shapes up as a crucial prep for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf.
PARIS - A competitive renewal Saturday of the Group 1, $320,000 Prix de la Foret over Longchamp's seven furlongs should make a perfect Breeders' Cup Mile prep for European hopefuls. The race will be without the Godolphin-owned Iffraaj, but will feature that organization's Caradak, the horse who beat George Washington into third place in Goodwood's Celebration Mile in his last start.