ALMANZOR dominated the final stages of last Sunday’s Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly where visitors from across the Channel were firmly put in their place. Jean-Bernard Eyquem partnered the 20/1 winner and the 40-year-old is one of the most popular riders in France.

The colt was providing Jean-Claude Rouget with his second classic this season, a second Jockey Club and now probably a second trainers’ championship as he is storming clear of André Fabre.