THE French flat racing pulse always quickens appreciably in the first few days of April and 2021 has been no exception with The Revenant reappearing last weekend, Skalleti and Gold Trip set to do battle this weekend, and numerous exciting three-year-olds filling the gap in between.

Perhaps the race that threw up the most likely future three-year-old star was last Tuesday’s Prix Penelope, a 10-and-a-half-furlong Saint-Cloud fillies’ event which is often quite a low-key affair.