Speed up for Classic test in Chantilly clash with Epsom second
They've already won one Oaks this season and Frankie Dettori and John Gosden aim to complete the double today.
A fortnight after Enable's triumph at Epsom, unbeaten stablemate Shutter Speed bids to capture the Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly.
Rhododendron, who chased Enable home, is also in the field on a day that is one of the most prestigious in the French racing calendar.
Her trainer Aidan O'Brien runs four fillies in his bid for a fourth straight win in the Munster Oaks at Cork, where Paul Midgley aims to follow up yesterday's Musselburgh sprint double with Monsieur Joe in the Midsummer Sprint Stakes.
And Hugo Palmer is on the Classic trail at Dusseldorf, where he bids to land the German 1,000 Guineas for the second year in a row with Unforgetable Filly.
The biggest race in Britain is the Listed British Stallion Studs EBF Cathedral Stakes at Salisbury, for which Richard Fahey's Mr Lupton is the top-rated contender.
Today’s main races
1.50 Chantilly Prix Hocquart Longines (Group 2) ATR/RUK
2.50 Cork Midsummer Sprint Stakes (Listed) ATR
3.05 Chantilly Prix de Diane Longines (Group 1) ATR/RUK
3.20 Cork Munster Oaks Stakes (Group 3) ATR
3.45 Salisbury British Stallion Studs EBF Cathedral Stakes (Listed) RUK
4.15Dusseldorf WEMPE 97th German 1,000 Guineas (Group 2) SIS
Going update
Cork: Good to firm,good in places all round (was good, good to yielding in places on sprint course)
Doncaster: Good to firm (watered)
Downpatrick: Good
Salisbury: Good to firm (watered)
Non-runners
Doncaster 3.30 Benissimo (self certificate, not sound); 5.00 Retro Valley (self certificate, lame), Star Glitter (self certificate, not eaten up)
Downpatrick 5.35 5 Decision Time
Market movers
Doncaster 2.00 Sovereign Bounty 100-30 (from 5-1); 3.00 Doctor Cross 9-2 (from 8-1); 4.00 Evergate 100-30 (from 9-2)
Salisbury 3.15 The Jean Genie 7-1 (from 10-1); 5.15 Halinka 100-30 (from 5-1)
Cork 5.20 Mystic Traveller 5-2 (from 7-2)
Published on 18 June 2017inPreviews
Last updated 15:05, 18 June 2017
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