SIGNS Of Blessing bounced back to the form which won him last year’s Group 1 LARC Prix Maurice de Gheest when he won the Meautry in style. Stephane Pasquier did not hang about as the gelding broke well and was never headed in the six-furlong dash.

He was shadowed throughout by Finsbury Square but dominated the situation from one furlong out. The winning distance was two lengths and Spiritfix stayed on in third place. The English runner Lahore was beaten over 11 lengths back in fifth place.