Opera Singer stole the show on the undercard with a five-length conquest of the Prix Marcel Boussac. So devastating was the Aidan O’Brien pupil that the ever-reticent jockey Ryan Moore was already talking up her chances in the 2024 Arc.

The only Breeders’ Cup Challenge event at Newmarket Saturday was the Royal Lodge (G2), but the day’s top-level juvenile prizes, the Middle Park (G1) and Cheveley Park (G1) for fillies, also have implications for “Future Stars Friday” at Santa Anita.

In addition to Alpinista in the main event, British-trained horses captured two other Group 1s on Arc Day, and the French turned their own Group 1 triple in Breeders’ Cup Challenge races.

A tactical race in a small field proved a trap for odds-on favorite Flying Honours, but Saturday’s Royal Lodge (G2) at Newmarket suited King Power Racing’s The Foxes.

Bracketing Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) are four additional Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” races.

Churchill Downs unveiled the Road to the 2022 Kentucky Derby on Friday, with two main changes to the series.

A change in venue and surface made no difference to Kameko, who upended a Coolmore-owned juggernaut in Friday's Vertem Futurity Trophy (G1) at Newcastle.

Originally the Vertem Futurity was scheduled fover the turf at Doncaster, transferred due weather to the synthetic Tapeta track at Newcastle.

To say that conditioner Aidan O’Brien has endured some success in the Beresford Stakes (Ire-G2) is a massive understatement.