Early favorites Hurricane Run, Shawanda, and Motivator, plus defending champ Bago, head a list of 18 horses left in Sunday's Group 1, $2.17 million Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at the five-day entry stage on Tuesday.

Attraction, the only filly in history to win both the English 1000 Guineas and the Irish 1000 Guineas, was retired on Tuesday after she was found to have gone lame.

Attraction's trainer, Mark Johnston, and her owner, the Duke of Roxburghe, decided not to take any further chances with her and announced that she would go to the duke's stud farm. Attraction, a 4-year-old daughter of Efisio, had been preparing for Saturday's Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket when her career-ending setback occurred at Johnston's yard in Middleham, North Yorkshire.

Flashy Wings puts her ranking as Europe's top juvenile filly on the line Thursday in Newmarket's $311,000 Cheveley Park Stakes.

Victories in the Group 3 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot at York and in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes at York had extended Flashy Wings's unbeaten streak to four before trainer Michael Channon "dropped" her into the $512,000 Watership Down Stud Sales Race, an event restricted to fillies sold at auction in the United Kingdom, in which she finished second by a neck to Expensive in a 23-runner field.

The fallout from Saturday's events at Newmarket was positive for the Breeders' Cup, as Starcraft, Dubawi, and Ouija Board are all headed to Belmont Park for what promises to be one of the strongest European contingents in many years.

After beating Dubawi by three-quarters of a length in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, the Australian-based Starcraft is being pointed to the Breeders' Cup Mile, for a $300,000 supplementary fee.

Deep Impact remained undefeated with an impressive score in the Grade 2, $953,000 Kobe Shimbun Hai at Hanshin.

Australian import Starcraft defeated favored Dubawi by three-quarters of a length in Saturday's Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Newmarket.

A tactical error by Dubawi's jockey, Frankie Dettori, made things easier for the 5-year-old Starcraft, the 7-2 third choice.

Oratorio, a two-time Group 1 winner in Europe going 1 1/4 miles this summer, is being considered for the Breeders' Cup Classic, according to a story Friday on the Racing Post website.

While trainer Aidan O'Brien said that the 1 1/4-mile Group 1 Champion Stakes at Newmarket on Oct. 15 was still Oratorio's intended target, he was also thinking about entering his 3-year-old son of Danehill in the Classic two weeks later. In his two most recent starts, Oratorio has taken the measure of the Epsom Derby winner, Motivator, in the Eclipse Stakes and in the Irish Champion Stakes.

Deep Impact, the undefeated Japanese Derby winner, returns to the races at Hanshin on Sunday in the $938,500 Kobe Shimbun Hai, a 1 1/4-mile Grade 2 prep for the Japanese St. Leger at Kyoto on Oct. 23.

The Kobe Shimbun Hai will be the first outing for the 5-for-5 Deep Impact, a son of Sunday Silence trained by Yasuo Ikee, since his five-length triumph in the Japanese Derby on May 29.

Any number of clues to European representation in the Breeders' Cup will be revealed at Newmarket on Saturday, when Dubawi, Rakti, and Starcraft clash in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, while Ouija Board finally returns to the races in the Group 3 Princess Royal Stakes.

The Breeders' Cup lost two potential European starters on Tuesday with the announcement by Godolphin that it has purchased both Proclamation and Imperial Stride and that neither will run again this year.

Formerly trained by Jeremy Noseda for Sheikh Mohammed's wife, Princess Haya of Jordan, Proclamation, winner of the Sussex Stakes, had been slated to use the Group 1 Prix de Foret at Longchamp on Oct. 1 as his prep for the Breeders' Cup Mile.