Sunday night at 11.45pm Australian time the Prix Jacques le Marois takes place at Deauville, France.
Run at distance of one mile it is open to both colts and fillies three years and older. This years renewal is much anticipated with at least five horses with genuine claims.
Dawn Approach has a quick turnaround from his close second to Toranado 10 days ago in the Sussex Stakes.
His trainer Jim Bolger seems happy enough that he has recovered from that to take his chance in this.
There’s no doubting his obvious quality at this distance and with plenty of pacemakers in this he should settle well. It is a quick turnaround however after a tough race.
Two and a half lengths behind him that day was Declaration of War who looks capable of challenging in Group 1s at this distance. But there is no reason to suggest that he will turnaround of the form with Dawn Approach.
Elusive Kate is a horse who loves running here with four wins and a third.
She’s in great form winning the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket and more recently in the Prix Rothschild.
These were against her own sex and she will have to find a bit more here to win this She has three lengths to make up on Declaration of War in her Queen Anne run at Royal Ascot.
Andre Fabre’s Intello is currently disputing favouritism for this year’s Arc with horses like Novellists and Al Kazeem.
He is trying to prove his versatility at this distance having already won the Prix Du Jockey Club (French Derby) at 2000m. Before that he came third in the French 2000 Guineas at 1mile. The French 2000 Guineas is a race on a downturn in recent years, there’s talk of it losing its Group 1 status. Because of this I tend to believe that a mile is too sharp for Intello at this level.
Perhaps the biggest challenger to Dawn Approach is the wonderful mare Moonlight Cloud. She was very impressive last time out over a shorter distance of 1400m with a 1 and 3/4 length victory over superstar English sprinter Lethal Force.
She has ability at a mile having defeated Farhh in last year’s Prix Du Moulin, Farhh looked very impressive in this year’s Lockinge. Despite this I’m going to go for Dawn Approach in this with Moonlight Cloud second and Declaration of War third.
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