THE identity of the best three-year-old miler in Europe remains less than clear after the two equivalents of the Guineas in France at the weekend.

Persian King duly won the Poule d’Essai des Poulains at odds-on, but by just a length from Shaman, and probably ran to a slightly lower level than Magna Grecia – whom he had beaten by a neck at two – managed in the Guineas at Newmarket.