THE feast of top-level European action last weekend started at Newmarket last Saturday when the André Fabre-trained five-year-old Esoterique (by Danehill Dancer) beat Integral by half a length in the Group 1 Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes (British Champions Series).

In 2013 she was narrowly beaten in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas), last year she took the Group 1 Prix Rothschild at Deauville, and in August she added the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp.