LAST Sunday’s other feature race, the €80,000 Group 3 Prix Minerve for three-year-old fillies over a mile and a half, was blighted by a slow pace which meant that just three lengths covered the entire field at the finish.

Tamniah, an Andre Fabre-trained daughter of Nathaniel who at odds of 20/1 was the outsider of the party, was the fortunate beneficiary, squeaking home by a short-head and a head in front of the British raider, Star Terms, and another Laffon-Parias trainee, Palomba.