Jamie Spencer may have to brush up on his Spanish after being offered the ride on Argentinian pioneer Sixties Song in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday week.

Deauville, placed in Group 1 company on his last two starts, drops in grade for the Group 3 Icon Meld Stakes at Leopardstown on Thursday evening, when he will face four rivals including The Grey Gatsby.

Ana O'Brien, daughter of trainer Aidan and Ireland's leading apprentice, could be out of action until November after fracturing vertebrae in her neck, the T6 in her back, bilateral cheekbones and right facial bone into her eye socket following a horror fall at Killarney on Tuesday evening.

Bela-Bela will end her great racing career in the R1m, Grade World Sports Betting Champions Cup (1800m) at Greyville on Saturday week.

Thunder Snow has won the Gr. 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly overnight to erase memories of his Kentucky Derby antics.

Roger Varian celebrated a second success in five years in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes, and his third top level win in Ireland, with Nezwaah running out an impressive winner of the fillies and mares event under Andrea Atzeni.

Aidan O'Brien registered a remarkable 12th victory in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby – 20 years after his first – after Capri edged out British raider Cracksman and Derby hero Wings Of Eagles in a thrilling three-way finish.

Wesley Ward would prefer to wait until next year before testing Lady Aurelia against Australia's best sprinters in their own back yard, but he may yet have a runner in the inaugural running of the world's richest turf race, The Everest.

The Champs-Elysees may have become the likeliest starting point for the City Racing concept being pursued by the Jockey Club after Westminster Council reversed its approval for a series of thoroughbred contests up London's Oxford Street.

Five-year-old Satono Crown claimed this year’s Takarazuka Kinen to capture his second Group 1 title, at Hanshin on Sunday, his first in Japan.