1 of 2 | Romantic Warrior trains at Sha Tin Racecouse for his effort to sweep the Hong Kong Triple Crown with a win in Sunday's Group 1 Champions & Chater Cup. Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Jockey Club
May 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Memorial Day weekend brings three days of racing from coast to coast, with stops in Texas and Kentucky, but most of the top-level action is elsewhere around the globe, from Europe to Japan and Hong Kong, and it started Thursday in Paris.
Around the world, around the clock
France
Winning a Group 1 race at Longchamp in Paris is one thing. It's another to win with a homebred product of generations of family breeding. And, yet another, if the race is named for the family's recently deceased patriarch.
