Zenno Rob Roy waltzed away with Japanese Horse of the Year honors last year with a late-season sweep of the Autumn Tenno Sho, the Japan Cup, and the Arima Kinen. On Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse, he will embark on an attempted repeat of that remarkable triple in the $2.2 million Autumn Tenno Sho, a 1 1/4-mile Grade 1 turf contest that has attracted a field of 18 runners.

Saint Liam, the morning-line favorite in the Breeders' Cup Classic, heads a list of eight American trainees included in the first list of horses invited by the Japan Racing Association to the Japan Cup Dirt, while America's leading hope in the Breeders' Cup Turf, the undefeated Shakespeare, has been invited to the Japan Cup.

Deep Impact made history at Kyoto Racecourse on Sunday with his two-length victory in the 1 7/8-mile Grade 1 Kikuka Sho, or Japanese St. Leger, becoming the first winner of the Japanese Triple Crown since Symboli Rudolf in 1984.

Deep Impact made history at Kyoto Racecourse on Sunday as his two-length victory in the 1 7/8-mile Grade 1 Kikuka Sho, or Japanese St. Leger, made him the first winner of the Japanese Triple Crown since Symboli Rudolf in 1984.

Palace Episode completed a wonderful year for Yorkshire trainer Kevin Ryan and his stable jockey, Neil Callan, when pulling off a 20-1 shock in the final Group 1 race of the British season, the Racing Post Trophy, at Doncaster on Saturday.

Deep Impact will be a prohibitive 1-10 favorite at Kyoto on Sunday in the $2.5 million, 1 3/4-mile Kikuka Sho, or Japanese St. Leger. A victory would make him Japan's first Triple Crown winner since Symboli Rudolf in 1984.

A son of Sunday Silence trained by Yasuo Ikee, Deep Impact landed the first two legs of the series with handy victories in the 1 1/4-mile Japanese 2000 Guineas and the 1 1/2-mile Japanese Derby. He will face 15 rivals Sunday.

The performance of hot favorite Electrocutionist in Sunday's at Woodbine will offer many clues as to the chances of the European contingent in next Saturday's Breeders' Cup Turf.

Trainer Aidan O'Brien will have four runners at Doncaster on Saturday in the one-mile $370,000 Racing Post Trophy, England's final Group 1 juvenile test of the year.

So powerful are O'Brien's 2-year-olds this year that his foursome Saturday does not include George Washington or Horatio Nelson, the pair who sit atop the European juvenile standings, or Ivan Denisovich, his Breeders' Cup Juvenile-bound Group 2 winner.

David Junior, a 25-1 shot, burst clear of the field at the eighth pole and was ridden out by Jamie Spencer to hold off runner-up Pride by three-quarters of a length and win the Group 1, $780,000 Champion Stakes at Newmarket, England.

Sir Percy beat Horatio Nelson by a neck in the Group 1, $450,000 Dewhurst Stakes, enhancing his bid for the European juvenile colt championship.

LONDON - Oratorio was an off-key fourth in the Champion Stakes, and Horatio Nelson had his colors lowered for the first time in the Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday when the unheralded David Junior and the unbeaten Sir Percy emerged as the big Group 1 winners at Newmarket's $1.8 million Champions Day meeting.