Mqse De Sevigne accomplished her Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe preparations as she got here from final to first to keep up her unbeaten file for the season within the Sumbe Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville.
Andre Fabre’s gifted mare received the Prix Rothschild and the Romanet final summer season and was lengthy odds-on to repeat the double within the fingers of Alexis Pouchin.
After being settled on the rear of the five-strong discipline for a lot of the 10-furlong contest, the five-year-old was produced to problem within the straight and knuckled down nicely to assert victory by a head, together with her rider eager to make sure she didn’t have a tough time of issues.
Joseph O’Brien saddled the second and third in American Sonja and Maxux, with Blue Rose Cen operating her finest race of the season to this point in a close-up fourth.
Following her victory 12 months in the past, Mqse De Sevigne dropped again to a mile within the Solar Chariot at Newmarket, ending second to Inspiral, however this season she is ready to step as much as a mile and a half for the primary time in a bid to supply her coach with a record-extending ninth victory within the Arc.
Coral eased her odds to 33/1 from 20/1 for Europe’s premier middle-distance contest, however Fabre is however wanting ahead to seeing her line up at ParisLongchamp in early October.
“She’s a great mare, she is beautiful and has all that you can expect from a well-bred thoroughbred,” the grasp coach instructed Sky Sports activities Racing.
“Keep in mind that she wins all her races by a nose or a short head. That [Arc] was the plan and it will stay that way – we will go straight for the Arc.”
Pleasant Soul continues on the improve in Deauville
Pleasant Soul continued her worthwhile summer season with a front-running victory within the Sumbe Prix Alec Head at Deauville.
Profitable on her solely juvenile begin at Kempton in December, John and Thady Gosden’s filly landed the Fairly Polly Stakes at Newmarket on her return to motion earlier than disappointing as sizzling favorite for the Musidora Stakes at York.
Nonetheless, she confirmed he true colors when placing her rivals to the sword within the Group Three Valiant Stakes at Ascot final month and repeated the feat at Group Two stage in France.
Having made the operating from flag-fall, Pleasant Soul remained in entrance on the high of the house straight and whereas Candala briefly loomed up wanting an enormous risk, the British raider gave generously for Kieran Shoemark to keep up her benefit, with Birthe ending strongly to beat Candala to second.
“She’s a very good filly. We didn’t expect the rain that we got here and consequently the ground is tacky and holding and she didn’t like it very much, but she managed to show her class and win it,” John Gosden instructed Sky Sports activities Racing.
“I think she’ll be a better filly on good ground, or even good to firm. We’ll just see where racing in the autumn and next year takes her, but she’s very progressive and the ground wasn’t showing her at her best today.
“I feel a mile and 1 / 4 in Europe is ideal for her. I would not attempt to go a mile and a half right here, in America she’d get a bit extra in case you wished to on the flat ovals.
“We put her in the Prix l’Opera and if the ground is like it was at ParisLongchamp last year we would definitely be running, if not we won’t be running.
“We are able to see a few journey to Del Mar (Breeders’ Cup). Mr (George) Strawbridge (proprietor) does reside in America.”
Double Main stars in Prix Kergorlay
Double Main cemented his standing as France’s finest stayer with a dominant show within the Sumbe Prix Kergorlay.
Christophe Ferland’s four-year-old loved a wonderful finish to 2023, touchdown the Prix Chaudenay on Arc weekend at ParisLongchamp earlier than claiming Group One honours within the Prix Royal-Oak.
Double Main lands the Sumbe Prix Kergolay, photograph: Zuzanna Lupa
He was crushed on his first two begins of the present marketing campaign, inserting third behind Sevenna’s Knight in successive races in Could, however regained the profitable thread within the Prix Maurice de Nieui and was a heat order to observe up on this one-mile-seven-furlong Group Two.
Despatched straight to the lead by Stephane Pasquier, Double Main kicked within the turbo from the house flip and his rivals have been quickly trailing in his wake, with Goya Senora rising better of the remaining.
