Racecards
14:40 ParisLongchamp (FR)
Poule D'essai Des Pouliches (Fillies' Group 1) (Class 1)
- 13 Runners
- Distance: 7f 209y
- Going: Good to Soft
- Surface: Turf
- €450,000 added
- Winner: €257,446
- 2nd: €97,380
- 3rd: €48,374
- 4th: €22,140
After (IRE)
28- Form 12956-5
- Age 3
- Weight 8-13
- Official Rating 102
- Trainer A P O'Brien
- Jockey C O'Donoghue
Verdict
After last week's classic double at Newmarket and victory in the Derby trial at Chester, Aidan O'Brien has entries in the French versions of both the 1000 and 2000 Guineas. Up is his main representative in this fillies' Group 1 with her third to stablemate Homecoming Queen at Leopardstown looking a lot better now than it did at the time, though she has a bit to find to overturn that running with the tough and consistent Fire Lily. Both, however, may be playing for places behind BEAUTY PARLOUR, who looked a potentially high-class performer when extending her unbeaten record in a Group 3 over C&D last month. Miss Carmie was a staying-on third that day but it's still difficult to see how she'll reverse the placings with Elie Lellouche's filly. Petite Noblesse also won easily at Longchamp last month but takes a steep rise in class here and Lily America will have to improve on her narrow defeat of Kendam at Saint-Cloud to figure.