It is the weekend of Ascot's Shergar Cup, where Saffie Osborne and Ryan Moore will be joined by the international galacticos Yutaka Take, Vincent Ho and Christophe Lemaire in what amounts to racing's mid-summer fun and games, and overall Saturday is light in terms of gravity.Haydock is back in action after the famous hole in the track saga and its G3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes is the centrepiece. As a 10-furlong stepping stone to big autumn targets, it is held in affection by the purists who remember the likes of Greek Dance and Nayef alongside the recent winners Addeybb and Anmaat. Addeybb's owner Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum is represented by Sallaal (Frankel), the Roger Varian-trained half-brother to Benbatl and Elmalka who could turn into one of the end-of-season stories such is his current rate of progress.Also at Haydock, Wathnan's five-times Group 1 winner Fallen Angel (Too Darn Hot) lines up for the Listed Dick Hern Stakes without a penalty preparing for a return to the Matron Stakes while elsewhere on Saturday Newmarket plays host to the G3 Newsells Park Stud Sweet Solera Stakes for the two-year-old fillies. Godolphin's course-and-distance winner Graceful Song (Dubawi) will be hot coming from the Charlie Appleby stable, but there are some other smart prospects lining up for the seven-furlong contest such as Denford Stud's Martinet (Frankel), a Sir Mark Prescott-trained daughter of the Group 1 winner Coronet.Newmarket also witnesses Mike Repole's first British-trained runner as the Roger Varian-trained Watch Party (Lope De Vega) appears in the seven-furlong Tattersalls £40,000 newcomers' maiden, which includes Victorious Forever and Duaij Al Khalifa's €1.1million Arqana May Breeze-Up topper Lex Victoria (Sioux Nation). As far as 2027 Classic hopefuls are concerned, Deauville also offers intrigue with the Prix de Crevecoeur and Prix des Marettes full of likely types such as Juddmonte's Charged (Kingman), a half-brother to the fellow Francis Graffard-trained class act Sunly (Night Of Thunder).Things crank up on Sunday, with The Curragh's six-furlong G1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes looking an open affair with no obvious standard-setter. Ballydoyle's filly Sun Goddess (Sioux Nation) was beaten in the Albany before taking the course-and-distance Airlie Stud Stakes and faces fellow TDN Rising Star Folsom Blues (Blue Point) representing Al Shira'aa Racing and Joseph O'Brien and the Railway winner Celeron (Mohaather).Folsom Blues drops back in trip after finishing an unlucky second in Leopardstown's Tyros Stakes, while Celeron looks to provide trainer Michael O'Callaghan with a welcome return to the big time. “I said Celeron wouldn't run over six again after the Railway, but having let the dust settle I felt that it was the right thing to do to let him take his chance in the Phoenix Stakes,” he explained. “He's a beautiful physical, about 16 hands and half an inch, he's a good mover, very well balanced and has a great mind.”“I think a mile is ultimately his optimum trip,” he added. “He could take his chance in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, which is a sharp mile. From when I got into racing the Breeders' Cup was always the pinnacle. The way the Americans produce the whole thing, it's just something people within racing aspire to have runners at. Seeing Ger Lyons win there with Magnum Force was unbelievable, it makes you aspire to try and achieve that.”Keep an eye on the seven-furlong Grand Hotel Malahide Irish EBF Fillies Juvenile Race, which has been won in recent times by Diamond Necklace and Hydrangea. Maybe City Of Troy's half-sister Exceptionally (Into Mischief) could enhance her outstanding pedigree, while the following Guidenstown Stud Irish European Breeders Fund Maiden is where Delacroix, Diego Velazquez, Al Riffa and Thunder Moon first entered the winner's spot. Aidan O'Brien's trio are headed by the 1.3million gns Tattersalls October Book 1 sensation Shakespeare (Dubawi), who is looking to get it done at the third time of asking.Sunday's other Group 1s are Deauville's Prix Maurice De Gheest staged in memory of Louis Romanet, and Hoppegarten's Grosser Preis von Berlin. In the former, the 1,000 Guineas heroine True Love (No Nay Never) looks to benefit from a weaker-than-usual edition of the niche 6 1/2-furlong test but she faces France's best sprinter in the up-and-coming Stolen Kiss (Chachnak). His narrow Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes defeat mixing it with Almeraq, Satono Reve and Joliestar makes him very dangerous in what amounts to a relative class drop. In Germany, the Deutsches Derby hero Dardanos (Soldier Hollow) takes on his elders in the mile-and-a-half feature. Only Torquator Tasso has managed to upstage the older brigade in recent times, so eyes peeled.The post All Ready For The Weekend Watch Party? appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.