Librettist will put his Breeders' Cup Mile credentials on the line in the $385,000 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp on Sunday. The winner of the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville last month, he has been selected by his owner, Godolphin, for the Group 1 mile instead of its other Breeders' Cup Mile hopeful, Ifraaj, who skipped Saturday's Haydock Park Sprint Cup because of the same soft ground that he would also have encountered in the Moulin.

Schiaparelli, winner of the German Derby, heads a field of eight in Sunday's Group 1, $925,000 Grosser Preis von Baden at Iffezheim Racecourse in Germany, a race that will not include Shirocco.

Last year's Breeders' Cup Turf winner, Shirocco will be sent by his trainer, Andre Fabre, to next Sunday's Prix Foy at Longchamp as a prep for his Oct. 1 date in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

NEW YORK - By cutting a swath through Saratoga as wide as a crescent moon last weekend, the Maktoum family was merely giving Americans a taste of the same medicine that the British have been swallowing for the last 25 years.

German Derby winner Schiaparelli heads a field of eight in Sunday's Group 1, $925,000 Grosser Preis von Baden at Iffezheim Racecourse in Germany, a race that will not include Shirocco.

Last year's Breeders' Cup Turf winner, Shirocco has passed on the Grosser Preis von Baden because his trainer, Andre Fabre, convinced owner Baron Georg von Ullmann that a run in next Sunday's Prix Foy at Longchamp would better prepare Shirocco for his Oct. 1 date in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Shirocco will face defending Arc champ Hurricane Run in the Prix Foy.

Librettist will put his Breeders' Cup Mile credentials on the line in an intriguing renewal of the Group 1, $385,000 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp on Sunday. Godolphin selected Librettist over its other Breeders' Cup Mile hopeful, Iffraaj, who skipped Saturday's Haydock Park Sprint Cup because of the soft ground, which he would also have encountered in the Moulin.

The Japan Racing Association is offering a bonus of $1.13 million to a horse who wins this year's Japan Cup or Japan Cup Dirt if that horse has already won one of several other major international races.

The bonus for a Japan Cup victory would go to this year's winners of the Dubai World Cup, the Arc, the Breeders' Cup Turf or Classic, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, the English Derby, Irish Derby, French Derby, or Takarazuka Kinen. The Japan Cup Dirt bonus applies to this year's winners of the World Cup, Kentucky Derby, Preakness, or Belmont Stakes.

The withdrawal of Iffraaj, Godolphin's Breeders' Cup Mile hopeful, from Saturday's Haydock Park Sprint Cup overshadows the six-furlong Group 1 sprint. Winner of the seven-furlong Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Goodwood on Aug. 1, Iffraaj was taken out of the $570,000 dash because of the soft ground.

In Reverence and Amadeus Wolf, the Sprint Cup has the first two finishers from last Thursday's five-furlong Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York, where they dueled on soft ground until Reverence drew off to win by two lengths. Reverence has failed, though, in all three tries at six furlongs.

The withdrawal of Iffraaj from Saturday's Group 1, $570,000 Haydock Park Sprint Cup at six furlongs overshadows a strong 11-horse field for the race, which should be dominated by the two favorites, Reverence and Amadeus Wolf.

Caradak capped a big international weekend for Sheikh Mohammed's racing forces on Sunday as the 5-year-old, owned by Godolphin, surprised both George Washington and Soviet Song in the Group 2, $188,000 Celebration Mile at Goodwood.

Caradak capped a big international weekend for Sheikh Mohammed at Goodwood on Sunday as the Godolphin 5-year-old surprised both George Washington and Soviet Song in the $188,000 Group 2 Celebration Mile.