Kevin Prendergast's Oscar Schindler, having spurned the Breeders' Cup Turf, has received the call-up to run in the Japan Cup on November 23rd. The dual Irish St Leger winner is one of a quartet of European runners selected to run in the big mile-and-a-half prize in Tokyo.
The others include two horses that finished in front of Oscar Schindler in the Arc, namely Pilsudski (second) and Borgia (third). Godolphin's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner, Swain, only seventh in the Arc, is the remaining European invite.
Dance Design is on course to have her second American outing of the season in the Grade One Yellow Ribbon Stakes (10f) at Santa Anita on Sunday.
The Dermot Weld filly was slightly disappointing when third in the Grade One Beverly D Stakes in Chicago in August and hasn't been out since.
But Tom Gallagher, Weld's assistant, reports the Moyglare Stud filly, who arrived in California on Sunday and cleared quarantine on Tuesday, in good shape.
Johnny Murtagh has passed his Hong Kong medical exam and has been given the all clear to begin another pre-Christmas stint in Hong Kong.
Murtagh, who owes the call up owing to a spate of suspensions, is to ride at Happy Valley on Saturday.
Murtagh rode four winners in Hong Kong last year. "I am happy to be back," he said.
Officials at Exeter are delighted with the number of entries for the highlight of the track's year, the William Hill Haldon Gold Cup.The impressive list of 19 entries include the David Nicholas trained Viking Flagship.
