BARON Edouard de Rothschild is president of France Galop and he was on hand last weekend for the official inauguration of the newly revamped ParisLongchamp. Four days later he had the pleasure of seeing his four-year-old home-bred Nathaniel (Galileo) filly Palombe gain a significant stakes win in the Listed Prix Gold River over a mile and six furlongs at the track. The filly is trained by Andre Fabre.

In so doing she further enhances an already top-class female line, while also giving her sire his first stakes winner of 2018. She is one of half a dozen stakes winners now for the Newsells Park Stud stallion, and four of these are females. Heading the list, by some distance, is the brilliant Enable, winner of more than €4.4 million and successful in all but one of her eight starts.