O'Brien runs three in Criterium

Aidan O'Brien will have three runners as he bids to continue his remarkable domination of European two-year-old races tomorrow.

He has won every Group One juvenile race open to colts so far this season and aims to keep the run going with Landseer, Mutinyonthebounty and Diaghilef in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.

Michael Kinane will ride Dewhurst Stakes runner-up Landseer, with Johnny Murtagh on Royal Lodge Stakes winner Mutinyonthebounty and Thierry Jarnet on Diaghilef.

British representatives in a seven-runner field are the Paul Cole-trained Prix la Rochette winner Guys And Dolls and Clive Brittain's once-raced Halawellfin Hala.

Sole home-trained runners are unbeaten Group Three winner Act One and Grand Criterium second Bernebeau.

O'Brien's Black Minnaloushe will stand as a stallion at the Ashford Stud in America next year.

He established himself as one of the year's best milers in Europe, winning both the Irish 2,000 Guineas and the Group One St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Saeed bin Suroor yesterday nominated Marienbard as the pick of Godolphin's two runners in next Tuesday's Tooheys New Melbourne Cup.

He supervised the Yorkshire Cup winner and fellow Cup entry Give The Slip together with travelling companion Hatha Anna at their Sandown base for the first time and was pleased with the trio's seven-furlong canter.

After dismissing rumours that all was not well with the Cup pair, bin Suroor described himself as "very happy" with their build-up to the two-mile event.

Breeders' Cup flop Officer looks set for a surprise return to action at Santa Anita in California tomorrow.

The highly-touted colt, only fifth behind Johannesburg when odds-on favourite to land a sixth straight win in the Juvenile at Belmont Park, is being aimed at the California Cup Juvenile.

Oh So Sharp, who won the fillies' Triple Crown in England in 1985, has died at the age of 19.

She was put down after becoming ill at the Dalham Hall Stud at Newmarket.

Oh So Sharp, who was trained by Henry Cecil and owned by Sheikh Mohammed, was unbeaten in three starts at two before making her name by winning the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and St Leger. She was also runner-up in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes and the Gold Cup.