SATURDAY’S card at ParisLongchamp featured a pair of Group 1s, and pride of place goes to Anapurna, winner of the Prix de Royallieu and gaining a second win at that level for her owner breeders, Meon Valley Stud. Her victory will have been some consolation for the defeat 24 hours later of Enable, ensuring John Gosden and Frankie Dettori were on the scoresheet for the weekend.

The brilliant Frankel (Galileo), unbeaten in 14 career starts, is the sire of Anapurna who in the summer captured the Group 1 Investec Oaks. The filly is the best of the winners from Dash To The Top, a listed winner by Montjeu (Sadler’s Wells), who was runner-up in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks at three, having been placed a year earlier in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile Stakes at Ascot.