Acclaimed as one of Europe's best milers after his victory in the Sussex Stakes in July, Proclamation cuts back to six furlongs on Saturday for the $405,000, Group 1 Haydock Park Sprint Cup.
Trained by Jeremy Noseda, Proclamation was announced as a candidate for the Breeders' Cup Mile after his Group 1 Sussex triumph over Soviet Song at Goodwood.
Ouija Board will miss her intended engagement in Saturday's Group 3 September Stakes at Newmarket after she failed to pass an endoscopic examination Wednesday.
The winner of last year's Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare, Ouija Board was expected to use the September Stakes, a 1 1/2-mile race, as the starting point of her autumn campaign, which is supposed to culminate in either the Breeders' Cup Turf or the Filly and Mare Turf. Instead, trainer Ed Dunlop will send her to Longchamp for the 1 1/2-mile, Group 1 Prix Vermeille on Sept. 11.
Ouija Board will be reunited with jockey Kieren Fallon when she returns from a 2 1/2-month absence in the Group 3 September Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.
Winner of the 2004 Eclipse Award winner as best filly or mare on turf, Ouija Board had lost Fallon's services when he signed with trainer Aidan O'Brien last winter. She had been ridden by Jamie Spencer when she sustained an injury in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot at York on June 15. Fallon had been on board when she won both the English and Irish Oaks as well as the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf.
Chic returned to form on Sunday to land the $180,000 Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood for the second year in succession.
The victory of the Michael Stoute-trained 5-year-old Machiavellian mare kicked off a big race double for her owner/breeders at Cheveley Park Stud, as Nannina followed in the very next race with a win in the Group 3 Prestige Stakes for juvenile fillies.
Frankie Dettori will be in the driver's seat aboard Layman in the Group 2, $180,000 Celebration Mile at Goodwood on Sunday in his first big race ride since having been sidelined with a broken collarbone on July 2.
Dettori, who returned to the saddle with four rides at Newmarket on Friday, was a spectator when Layman came back from a 10-month absence to defeat Jack Sullivan by two lengths in the one-miles Group 3 Sovereign Stakes at Salisbury on Aug. 11.
NEW YORK - "We are doing what's best for the horse" is a refrain that trips off the tongues of owners and trainers as easily as Triple Crown performers fall by the wayside. The horse's interests must always come first, we are led to believe, but you don't have to be from Missouri to take such sentiments with a grain of salt.
Officials at the Australian Stud Book have discovered that the stallion shipped from England to Australia who was supposed to have been Dubai Millennium's half-brother Dubai Excellence is, in fact, a horse named Samood, the Racing Post reported on its website Wednesday.
Both stallions shared a paddock near Newmarket, and the wrong one was sent to Evergreeen Stud in Perth, Australia. Samood, a son of Caerleon out of Park Appeal, a two-time Group 1 winner at 2, had won a single race from four starts in the United Arab Emirates in 2001 for his owner, Hamdan Al Maktoum.
Silca's Sister scored a major surprise at Deauville on Sunday when she upset four group race winners in the Group 1, $420,000 Prix Morny.
Trained by Michael Channon, Silca's Sister handed the Group 2 July Stakes winner Ivan Denisovich a resounding two-length thumping in the six-furlong Morny. She also had the Group 2 Richmond Stakes winner Always Hopeful a nose farther back in third. Two highly regarded group-race-winning French fillies, Mauralakana and New Girlfriend, were fourth and fifth.