Chenchikova came a cropper on the heavy ground at The Curragh on Sunday. The 11-10 favorite, Chenchikova came home fourth behind the 10-1 winner, Danehill Music, in the Group 3 Park Express Stakes.

A full sister to two-time Breeders' Cup Turf winner High Chaparral, Chenchikova finished 3 3/4 lengths behind the David Wachman-trained winner.

A handicap winner on similar ground at The Curragh last year, Danehill Music prevailed by two lengths over Utterly Heaven, slogging through the mile in 2:05.61.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - David Junior began his 2006 campaign the same way he ended 2005, impressively winning a Group 1 stakes.

Last October, he won the Champion Stakes at Newmarket, England. On Saturday, David Junior scored a convincing win in the $5 million Dubai Duty Free Stakes at Nad Al Sheba racecourse.

The Duty Free and the $5 million Sheema Classic, the preceding race on Saturday's program, are the world's richest turf races.

The Florida-bred David Junior ran about 1 1/8 miles on turf in 1:49.65.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Running in some of the world's most lucrative races has pushed Sheema Classic winner Heart's Cry to $7,903,691 in lifetime earnings. Second by a nose in the $3.9 million Japan Cup last November, Heart's Cry showed in the Sheema Classic why he was the top turf horse in Japan last year.

Heart's Cry led throughout, finishing about 1 1/2 miles in 2:31.89. Collier Hill and Falstaff, both considered outsiders, finished second and third in the field of 14.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - In the days before the $2 million UAE Derby at Nad Al Sheba, Discreet Cat was described by Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford as a colt that was "long on hype and short on experience." It turns out the hype may have been justified.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - America's grip on the world's sprint division is secure.

Proud Tower Too, who has risen to prominence in California in recent months, won Saturday's $2 million Golden Shaheen, leading an American sweep of the first five positions in the 15-horse field.

Ridden by David Cohen, Proud Tower Too was timed in 1:09.86 for the about six-furlong distance on a straightaway, edging Thor's Echo by 1 1/4 lengths. Jet West finished third, followed by Captain Squire and Gaff. The first four finishers are based in California; Gaff is based in Florida.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Utopia gave Japan its first of two winners on the program with a front-running score in the $1 million Godolphin Mile.

Breaking from the rail under Japanese champion jockey Yutaka Take, Utopia led Shamoan and Marbush before pulling away at the top of the stretch to win by four lengths. He finished about a mile in 1:35.88.

Win River Win, of Turkey, and Jack Sullivan, who was 12th in the 2005 Breeders' Cup Classic, rallied through the stretch to finish second and third.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A home track advantage helped Electrocutionist beat a field that included five American rivals in Saturday's $6 million Dubai World Cup at Nad Al Sheba racecourse.

Making just his second start on dirt, three weeks after winning a Group 2 stakes by seven lengths here, Electrocutionist rallied from sixth in a field of 11 to beat the American star Brass Hat by 1 1/2 lengths. Wilko, the winner of the 2004 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Lone Star Park, finished third.

The Irish flat racing season opens at The Curragh on Sunday with Chenchikova, a full sister to High Chaparral, heading a field of 10 in the $120,000 Park Express Stakes, a seven-furlong race for fillies and mares that was upgraded this year to Group 3 status.

Trained by Aidan O'Brien, Chenchikova earned high praise for her two-length victory over 15 rivals in a 7 1/2-furlong maiden at Tipperary in her only previous outing, on Sept. 15. O'Brien has warned, though, that she could be withdrawn at the last moment because of the prevailing heavy ground.

The Storm Cat-Tranquility Lake colt purchased for $9.7 million at the 2005 Keeneland September Yearling Sale last summer is part of the Maktoum family's Godolphin racing operation in Newmarket, England, and is being pointed for a summer start in England.

Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford said the Storm Cat colt has not been named, but has begun training. The colt topped the Keeneland Sale.

"He's a lovely colt. He hasn't worked yet," Crisford said. "Hopefully, he'll be out in the middle of the summer."