DEAUVILLE SUNDAY

3.20 PRIX ROTHSCHILD (GROUP 1 3YO+ Fillies) of €300,000 1m (straight)

Tomorrow’s Group 1 Prix Rothschild should give us an early indication of the calibre of this year’s female classic generation as three-year-olds from the Prix de Diane and the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches get a first chance to take on their elders.

The strength of a three-pronged foreign challenge, all older fillies from Britain, depends upon the solidity of the form of the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot, where Aljazzi scored by almost four lengths from Tribute Act, with Tomyris another two lengths back in sixth.

None of the trio have run since then and, with a double-figure field size here increasing the probability of a strong gallop, it is hard to see Aljazzi, who is trained by Marco Botti, finishing behind her two fellow Newmarket raiders.

Hunaina may prove the pick of the older French fillies. This Aga Khan-bred daughter of Tamayuz has been transformed since being sold out of Michael Halford’s stable for €140,000 at Goffs last November.

She has won three of her five starts for new handler Henri-Francois Devin, including a listed and a Group 3, but she did finish some way behind Tomyris in a Group 3 at Lingfield in May.

With the Andre Fabre string in such fine fettle it would be foolish to discount his Rosa Imperial, cosy winner of a listed event over this course and distance three weeks ago.

The five home-trained three-year-old contenders are led by With You, a Group 3 scorer as a juvenile who suffered a delayed start to her 2018 campaign before running highly creditably behind Laurens in two Group 1s – when second in the Prix Saint-Alary and fifth, beaten just half a length, in the Diane.

This daughter of Dansili, a full sister to the 2014 Prix de l’Opera heroine, We Are, should continue to progress. She now drops back to a mile and her trainer, Freddy Head, has a great affiliation with this race having won it four times in a row with the mighty Goldikova.

The Pouliches form is represented by its 10th, Sea Prose and its unlucky-in-running 13th, Mission Impassible.

Sea Prose has since been beaten in listed company but Mission Impassible went on to land the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham, form that was boosted when the second, Crown Walk (who reopposes again here), lifted the Group 3 Prix Chloe.

SELECTION: WITH YOU

Next best: Aljazzi

Comedy show

Tomorrow’s other Deauville feature, the Group 3 Darley Prix de Cabourg for two-year-old fillies over six furlongs, sees four British visitors take on just two seemingly unremarkable home-trained opponents.

Karl Burke’s front-running Dandy Man filly, Comedy, looks worthy of support here and she may fight out an all-Yorkshire finish with the Richard Fahey-trained Kodyanna.

All eyes will be on Homerique at the Normandy venue today when the Prix de Diane third faces six rivals in the Group 3 Prix de Psyche.

Colm O’Donoghue is an interesting jockey booking for Godolphin in the other pattern race on the card, the eight-runner Group 3 Prix Six Perfections, where he partners the Chesham Stakes fourth, Beyond Reason, for trainer Charlie Appleby.