Shawanda and Hurricane Run are the headline attractions at Longchamp's Arc preview meeting on Sunday when each will run in a course and distance prep for the $2.23 million Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at 1 1/2 miles on Oct. 2.

ELEVENTH RACE:

1. Homan Tequila 2. Maruka Kiseki 3. Keeneland Swan

The world's richest day of racing just got richer.

The Dubai Racing Club announced Friday that it was increasing the prize money of the Dubai Duty Free and the Dubai Sheema Classic from $2 miilion to $5 million each, with first prizes of $3 million each. As a result, the six Thoroughbred races on the Dubai World Cup card, which will be run March 26, 2006, will be worth a total of $21 million, and the 1 1/8-mile Duty Free and the 1 1/2-mile Sheema Classic become the two richest turf races in the world.

Azamour will seek a second successive victory in the $1.23 million Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday, and Scorpion will start as the odds-on favorite in the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster.

Leopardstown's annual 1 1/4-mile showcase of Group 1 excellence, the Irish Champion Stakes, has a roll call of recent winners second to none. Pilsudski, Swain, Daylami, Giant's Causeway, Fantastic Light, and High Chaparral preceded Azamour's half-length victory over Norse Dancer in last year's edition.

Team Valor's Sweet Stream is on course for the Melbourne Cup after her sharp score in the $185,000 Group 2 Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster on Wednesday.

Ouija Board has been deemed not ready for Sunday's Prix Vermeille at Longchamp by trainer Ed Dunlop, and she will miss the race, which was to be her prep for the Breeders' Cup.

The defending Filly and Mare Turf champ, Ouija Board has suffered a series of setbacks this season, and after she worked at Newmarket on Tuesday morning, Dunlop and owner Lord Derby decided that she needed more time to recover.

In European Group 1 action on Sunday, Warrsan took his second straight Grosser Preis von Baden, Starcraft upset the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, and Rumplestiltskin gave Aidan O'Brien his fourth Moyglare Stud Stakes trophy .

Warrsan took his second straight Grosser Preis von Baden, Starcraft upset the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, and Rumplestiltskin gave Aidan O'Brien his fourth Moyglare Stud Stakes trophy in European Group 1 action on Sunday.

David Loder, who is to retire from training at the end of the year at the age of just 41 owing to health problems, and Jamie Spencer, who looks almost certain to become English champion jockey for the first time this season, teamed up to land the Haydock Park Sprint Cup with Goodricke on Saturday.

A 14-1 chance in a field of 17 for this Group 1 contest run over a straight six furlongs on good turf, Goodricke clocked a time of 1:10.87 as he came with his usual late burst to beat La Cucuracha by a length with Ashdown Express a length farther back in third.

The countdown to the autumn international racing season begins in earnest with Group 1 action on three fronts in Europe on Sunday, at Baden-Baden in Germany, Longchamp in France, and The Curragh in Ireland.