BASTILLE Day on Sunday saw the latest running of the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at ParisLongchamp, the big three-year-old race of the French midsummer and won for the second year in a row by Aidan O’Brien for the Magnier-Smith-Tabor combination, this time with Japan.

The performance saw the colt shortened in the betting for the Arc back here in October, but does not look especially classy on paper, including in terms of time and sectionals.