WHILE the Moulin largely went to script (apart from the lacklustre effort of the second favourite, Snow Lantern, who finished a never-dangerous fourth), the same cannot be said for the four other pattern races on the card, which produced two 25/1 winners, plus a victory for Bubble Smart, never sighted in three previous Longchamp visits, all in handicap company.

The one winning favourite, or joint-favourite to be more precise, was the Prix du Jockey Club fourth, Jean-Claude Rouget’s Saiydabad, who seemed to enjoy the return to a mile and two furlongs in the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange following his Grand Prix de Paris flop.