Caught behind traffic turning for home and still fourth in deep stretch, Japan’s hope Loves Only You was running out of time in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) at Del Mar.

For only the third time in 100 runnings, Germany has captured the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. German Horse of the Year Torquator Tasso, overlooked at 71-1, snatched Sunday’s centennial edition.

Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) winner Tarnawa will tackle three-year-old stars Adayar, Hurricane Lane, and Snowfall, with added intrigue courtesy of Japan’s Chrono Genesis and Deep Bond.

The upsets kept coming on day two of Irish Champions Weekend at the Curragh, including both of Sunday’s Breeders’ Cup Challenge events.

Irish Champions Weekend culminates in a spectacular Sunday at the Curragh, with two Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” races among a quartet of Group 1s.

A tribute to the great Galileo, a blueblood champion on the racecourse and a supersire on the international stage.

Love was in the air on Day 2 at Royal Ascot. Or—more specifically—the filly Love was in the air, flying to the finish line in the Prince of Wales’s S. (G1).

Day two of Royal Ascot has just the one Group 1 contest, but it’s a dandy. Wednesday’s Prince of Wales’s S. (G1), offering a free berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), could pit champion filly Love against defending champion Lord North.

The Breeders' Cup is five weeks from now, several Eclipse Award races came into much sharper focus an indeed, we're ready to make a call in one of them.