Sulamani returned to his winning ways with a hard-fought victory over Norse Dancer in the $841,000 Juddmonte International Stakes at York on Tuesday, while handing the favored French invader Bago the first loss of his career.

Whipper could be headed to the Breeders' Cup Mile, after defeating last year's Mile winner, Six Perfections, in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville on Sunday.

Under France's leading rider Christophe Soumillon, Whipper held Six Perfections safe through the final furlong for a one-length victory at 5-1 in the $677,000 Group 1 mile. Clearly relishing the soft ground, he was timed in 1:38.40. My Risk, who led briefly at the three-sixteenths pole, was third, 1 1/2 lengths behind Six Perfections, while the 7-5 favorite Attraction was last of 10.

Ouija Board will start as the odds-on favorite, searching for her third consecutive Group 1 victory at 1 1/2 miles in the $459,000 Yorkshire Oaks at York on Wednesday.

Trained by Ed Dunlop for Lord Derby, Ouija Board is attempting to emulate Ramruma, who in 1999 became the last filly to pull off the English Oaks/Irish Oaks/Yorkshire Oaks triple. On Wednesday she will be without the services of regular rider Kieren Fallon, who has been retained by Michael Stoute to ride Quiff for owner Khalid Abdullah. Johnny Murtagh will replace Fallon on Ouija Board.

Mubtaker won the Group 2 Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury, England, for the third straight year on Saturday.

Owned by Hamdan al Maktoum and trained by Marcus Tregoning, Mubtaker defeated Dubai Success by 2 1/2 lengths, with Compton Bolter third and The Great Gatsby fourth and last in the about 1 5/8-mile race. The 3-10 favorite, Mubtaker ran the distance on good going in 2:50.69 under Richard Hills.

The $182,000 Freer was the first race for Mubtaker, 7, since he finished second in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last fall.

The prospect of soft ground means that the field for Tuesday's Group 1, $825,000 Juddmonte International Stakes on the first day of York's famous three-day Ebor meeting may not be known until a few hours before post time.

Six Perfections defends her Prix Jacques le Marois title on Sunday at Deauville in France, where heavy ground could dampen the hopes of many of the leading contenders.

The straight Group 1 mile, at $674,000 the richest race of its distance in Europe, has been won by five subsequent Breeders' Cup winners. Miesque in 1987 and 1988 and Spinning World in 1996 both went on to land the Mile those same years, while 2001 winner Banks Hill would later take the Filly and Mare Turf.

Mubtaker, second in last year's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, makes his first start since then on Saturday in an attempt to win his third consecutive Group 2 Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury.

Only three will line up against the 7-year-old Mubtaker, who, at 132, is rated behind only Doyen by Timeform among all European horses in training. They are Dubai Success, a Group 3 winner; Compton Bolter, a six-time listed winner; and last year's Epsom Derby runner-up, The Great Gatsby, who will wear blinkers for the first time.

Oude will attempt to follow in the prodigious footsteps of Lammtarra in the Washington Singer Stakes at Newbury on Friday.

Damson maintained her unbeaten record at the expense of colts while One Cool Cat returned to form in a sprint at The Curragh on Sunday.

The $368,000 Group 1 Phoenix Stakes fell to the odds-on filly Damson, who defeated Oratorio by three-quarters of a length, getting the six furlongs in 1:13.29 on good to firm ground. Trained by David Wachman, Damson will face her own sex in either the Moyglare Stud Stakes at The Curragh on Sept. 5 or the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on Sept. 30.

Gary Stevens won his first French Group 1 race on Sunday aboard the 14-1 Somnus in the $245,540 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville.

Somnus assumed command just past halfway in the straight 6 1/2-furlong sprint, then held off the late challenge of Whipper by a neck, with Dolma another neck back in third.

This was the first victory for Somnus in three starts this season, and he will be aimed by his trainer, Tim Easterby, at a defense of his Group 1 Haydock Park Sprint Cup on Sept. 4. The winning time of 1:16.00 equaled the Maurice de Gheest stakes record.