Luca Cumani has played down fears that the going on the turf track at Arlington will be too quick for stable star Gossamer as she takes to the stage in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf on Saturday.

IT seems increasingly likely Rock Of Gibraltar will contest the Breeders’ Cup Mile rather than the Breeders’ Cup Classic, at Arlington in Chicago on Saturday.

Irish 1000 Guineas winner Gossamer is among 48 entries for the Group Two Victor Chandler Challenge Stakes at Newmarket on October 19.

Aidan O’Brien has the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday firmly in his sights as he aims his big guns at the Group One prize.

Aidan O’Brien has the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday firmly in his sights as he aims his big guns at the Group One prize.

Sophisticat has given Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Michael Kinane their second Group One success of the week, following Rock Of Gibraltar’s win, when getting up close to home to grab the Coronation Stakes.

Gossamer has won the Entenmann's Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh.

Marcus Tregoning has withdrawn Nell Gwynn Stakes winner Misterah from Sunday's Entenmann's Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh.

Zenda, winner of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp, may be supplemented for Sunday’s Entenmann’s Irish 1000 Guineas.

Jamie Spencer made a dramatic start to a big weekend when winning the Sagitta Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket on Marienbard today.

Gossamer was a notable absentee from the entries revealed today for the Vodafone Oaks.

Gerald Leigh, the owner-breeder of leading Sagitta 1000 Guineas fancy Gossamer, has threatened to have his horses in training removed from Britain and placed in Ireland.