IRELAND’s best active racehorse on Timeform ratings (jointly, with Free Eagle) Gleneagles stayed in his stable but still arguably managed to have his reputation enhanced in absentia by the win of Territories - whom he had beaten readily in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket - in the Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly.

A somewhat overly-enthusiastic pace set by Aktabantay did for those near the front, but Territories and Dutch Connection still deserve plenty of credit in coming from behind to draw well clear of their rivals.