CHARLIE Appleby landed back-to-back runnings of the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac when the supplemented Dubawi filly Wild Illusion followed in the hoofprints of another daughter of the hugely successful Darley sire and captured France’s premier race for juvenile fillies.

The win was the 26th stakes winner in 2017 for the brilliant Dubawi, the best runner sired in the sole crop left by Sheikh Mohammed’s favourite racehorse Dubai Millennium (Seeking The Gold). The previous evening Dubawi’s five-year-old son Mubtaahij made a winning start for trainer Bob Baffert when he captured the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita, his first win at that level.