Longchamp closed its spring season on Tuesday as Acago led throughout as the 2-5 favorite to take the Group 3 Prix Chloe.
Jockey Olivier Peslier put Acago, Kentucky-bred 3-year-old daughter of Royal Academy, on the lead leaving the gate and was soon four lengths clear. He hardly had to move a muscle as Acago came home a four-length winner over Garlinote.
Saeed Suhail, the owner of Kris Kin, has decided not to spend the $110,000 that would have been necessary to supplement his Epsom Derby winner into Sunday's Irish Derby.
Suhail, who had written a check for $150,000 to supplement Kris Kin to the Epsom Derby, decided along with trainer Michael Stoute that the firm ground at The Curragh would not be to the liking of Kris Kin, who earned $1.4 million for winning at Epsom on good ground.
Vespone gave no one else a chance at Longchamp on Sunday as he led throughout to take the fabled Grand Prix de Paris.
Supplemented to the $577,000 Group 1 contest for $35,000, Vespone, a 3-year-old son of Llandaff, prevailed by 1 1/2 lengths under Christophe-Patrick Lemaire.
Trained by Nicolas Clement, Vespone was clocked in 2:01.10 for the 1 1/4 miles of the paris, just .10 seconds off the track mark.
Magistretti came from ninth to take second near the line, while Jipapibaquigrafo came home fifth, 2 3/4 lengths behind the winner.
Pat Eddery, one of Britain's leading jockeys during the last three decades, announced his retirement on Monday, effective with the end of the current season.
The 51-year-old Eddery, 11 times the champion rider in Britain, announced his decision before an evening meeting at Windsor.
A native of Ireland, Eddery will retire with the status of a legend. He rode most of his career against the likes of Lester Piggott, Willie Carson, and Steve Cauthen, accumulating 4,585 victories in Britain alone, just 285 wins behind the all-time British leader, Gordon Richards.
Choisir rewrote the record books at Royal Ascot on Saturday as he sped to victory in the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes just four days after he won the Group 2 King's Stand Stakes.
In defeating the favored Airwave by half a length, Australian invader Choisir also cracked the track record for six furlongs. His time in leading throughout over the straight but undulating course on firm ground was 1:12.23, or three-10ths of a second faster than that of Shalford in the same race in 1992, when it was called the Cork and Orrery Stakes.
Jipapibaquigrafo may have an unpronounceable name, but he shows a pronounced preference for 1 1/4 miles, the distance of Sunday's Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp, a $585,000 race for 3-year-olds.
Jipapibaquigrafo, an Irish River colt, ran second to subsequent French Derby winner Dalakhani by a half-length in the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe at a sixteenth farther than Sunday's race. Trained by Criquette Head-Maarek, Jipapibaquigrafo is a course-and-distance winner at the allowance level who appears ideally suited by the conditions.
NEW YORK - If the Kentucky breeding industry is still wondering how a New York-bred could win both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, it should understand that many of the best horses bred in the Bluegrass no longer run in America.
One need look no further than this week's events at Royal Ascot, where six of the 12 group race winners through the first four days of the meeting were Kentucky-breds.
Russian Rhythm surprised no one with her victory in Friday's Group 1, $450,000 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Sent off at odds of 4-7, or slightly longer than 1-2, the Michael Stoute-trained Russian Rhythm strode out a 1 1/2-length winner over Soviet Song in the one-mile race to become the first filly to complete the 1000 Guineas-Coronation Stakes double since One in a Million in 1979.
Mr Dinos ran down pacesetter Persian Punch at the half-mile pole and went on to record a handy six-length win in the Group 1, $420,000 Ascot Gold Cup Thursday.
The 3-1 second choice, Mr Dinos had signaled his readiness for the 2 1/2-mile Gold Cup with a 2 1/2-length victory over Pole Star in the Group 2 Henry II Stakes, a two-mile race at Sandown May 26. Pole Star stayed on for third Thursday, three-quarters of a length behind the 10-year-old sentimental favorite Persian Punch, who was running in the Gold Cup for the seventh time.
United States-based Morluc can make history at Royal Ascot on Saturday if he can defeat 22 other sprinters in the Group 1, $420,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes.
Trainer Randy Morse has had the six-furlong Golden Jubilee on Morluc's dance card since last winter, and for good reason. A 7-year-old son of Housebuster, Morluc has proven himself adept at the international game, narrowly missing twice in the Hong Kong Sprint on Sha Tin's straight five-furlong course.