The Darley Yorkshire Oaks looks like being one of the races of the season, with three top-class fillies lining up

HENRY Cecil’s Midday looks a knocking bet to rack up successive wins in the Blue Square Nassau Stakes on the final day of Glorious Goodwood today.

Trainer Freddie Head made it a remarkable eight Group Ones for the season on the Longchamp undercard as Naaqoos took the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (Grand Criterium) and Marchand D’Or the Prix de l’Abbaye.

PROPORTIONAL has a lot to live up to compared with last year’s Total Prix Marcel Boussac winner Zarkava, but still had the ability to humble a decent pack of two-year-old fillies in the Longchamp Group One yesterday.

Even before George Washington’s death at Monmouth Park on Saturday night there had been little cheer for the Irish or British raiders from a Breeders’ Cup card that produced 11 American winners out of 11.

Alexander Tango is set for a well-deserved winter break following a fruitful trip to America.

Multidimensional and Passage Of Time are to have a work-out an hour before racing at Newmarket on Friday.

Ouija Board enjoyed a spin on the all-weather track at Sha Tin racecourse this morning ahead of her final start in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase.

Frankie Dettori will team up with star mare Ouija Board tomorrow ahead of her run in the Japan Cup on Sunday.

ALEXANDROVA proved a real star turn at York yesterday when completing a Group One hat-trick under a supremely confident Mick Kinane in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks.

Kempton’s newly-laid Polytrack Flat course received its most important test so far when the queen of the British racing scene, Ouija Board, turned out to stretch her legs.

Lord Derby has nominated a possible campaign in Dubai as a target for Ouija Board should the world-beating filly be kept in training next year.

Ed Dunlop sees no reason why Ouija Board cannot enhance her glittering CV with more glory in the Japan Cup on November 27 and the Hong Kong Cup on December 11.

Ouija Board looks likely to take up her invitation for the Japan Cup in Tokyo on November 27.

Ouija Board is on course to return at Newmarket next month after pleasing trainer Ed Dunlop in a racecourse gallop.

Ouija Board has wintered well and is back in training with Ed Dunlop to be prepared for a seasonal reappearance in the Vodafone Coronation Cup.

Aidan O’Brien is hoping that his late-season revival in form can be carried across the Atlantic when he saddles five runners in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup meeting at Lone Star Park.

Ouija Board has been confirmed as a runner in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Lone Star Park on Saturday.

High Chaparral and Islington took the Turf honours at the prestigious Eclipse Awards in America last night.

JOHNNY MURTAGH will take over on the Pascal Bary trained Six Perfections in Sunday’s Entemann’s Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh.

Dual Classic heroine Kazzia has been retired by Godolphin, it was revealed today.