Alan Berry, the Lancaster-based English trainer who is one of 11 people charged by London police with conspiracy to commit fraud, has been granted permission to continue training while the investigation into alleged race-fixing continues.

Britain's Horseracing Regulatory Authority issued the decisions Wednesday after a Tuesday hearing . The racing authority decided that, because any possible trial in the matter will not start until at least the spring of 2007, that it would be inappropriate to ban him from his trade.

The English, French, and Italian Derby form will go on trial Sunday at The Curragh as overseas challengers account for six of the 13 runners in the $1.7 million Irish Derby.

Dragon Dancer, Dylan Thomas, and Best Alibi - who finished second, third, and sixth in the English Derby - face the first two home in the French Derby (Darsi and Best Name), while French champion trainer Andre Fabre is represented by Gentlewave, winner of the Italian version.

The Emirates Racing Associates upheld the disqualification of Brass Hat from the March 25 Dubai World Cup on Tuesday after hearing an appeal by the owner and trainer of the colt.

The disqualification will cost the colt's owner, Fred Bradley, the $1.2 million second-place share of the World Cup's $6 million purse. Stewards at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse, where the World Cup was run, disqualified Brass Hat after the colt tested positive for a banned corticosteroid following the race.

Deep Impact signed off in Japan with a four-length victory in the Takarazuka Kinen at Kyoto on Sunday. Travel plans will now be finalized for his trip to France and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Oct. 1.

The 1-10 favorite in the 13-horse field, Deep Impact raced in 12th position early under Yutaka Take. He began to edge forward inside the final half-mile, but still had several lengths to make up with two furlongs to run. Deep Impact caught Balance of Game with 150 yards to run and drew clear to win by four lengths.

Pride handed European champion Hurricane Run only the second defeat of his nine-race career when she caught him almost on the line in Sunday's Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

It was the first Group 1 win for Pride, who also has four Group 2 wins, including the Prix Corrida over 1 5/16 miles on this course May 29.

ASCOT, England - Running back on four days' rest proved too tough a task for Takeover Target on Saturday as the bargain-basement sprinter ran third behind longshot winner Les Arcs in the $647,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes, the closing day feature at Royal Ascot.

ASCOT, England - The old Ascot is dead, to begin with. Anyone who came to England's extravagant royal horse race meeting this week expecting Victorian, Edwardian, or even early Elizabethan II grandeur would have been sadly disappointed.

The new $350 million grandstand, a miracle of modern-day construction technique, was built in less than 18 months and bears no relation to, but much comparison with, the old stand, bits of which may well be resting eternally in mantelpiece urns throughout England. There is little else of the old structure left.

ASCOT, England- Nannina made mincemeat of 1000 Guineas form on Friday as she stormed to a clear-cut victory in the $495,000 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, where she beat five classic mile winners into submission.

Japanese superstar Deep Impact will have his last home start Sunday before journeying to Europe to tackle the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris in October. His immediate task is the Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen at Kyoto.

Deep Impact amazed even his most ardent admirers at Kyoto on April 30, circling all of his 16 opponents before landing the Grade 1 Spring Tenno Sho by 3 1/2 lengths in record time.

Hurricane Run, perhaps the best horse in the world, will face just five opponents in the $500,000 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on Sunday, but three of them are capable of giving the European champion a run for his money.