His Day?

After upsetting The Corsican (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in Goodwood’s G3 Glorious S. at the end of July, Qatari champion Dubday (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) gets a crack at the highest level in Europe as he heads to post for Cologne’s G1 Preis von Europa on Sunday. Second in both the Listed Aston Park S. at Newbury May 16 and Listed Fred Archer S. at Newmarket June 27, Al Shaqab Racing’s 5-year-old has come a long way since his formative days in this country under the care of Andreas Trybuhl. Up against him is last year’s G2 Grand Prix de Deauville winner Cocktail Queen (Ire) (Motivator {GB}), who was second in that event last time Aug. 30, and the leading domestic hope Ito (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}). Scratched from the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden in which Nightflower (Ger) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) was runner-up, Gestut Schlenderhan’s homebred had previously annexed the 11-furlong G2 Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmer June 7 and finished second in the G1 Grosser Preis von Berlin over this trip Aug. 9.