Terre (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) has big shoes to fill as she bids to gain black-type and go some way towards emulating her famed sister Treve (Fr) in Tuesday's G3 Prix Cleopatre at Saint-Cloud. Successful by three lengths in a 10-furlong contest at Chantilly May 3, the Haras du Quesnay homebred has earned herself this tilt with some strong homework. “She has done extremely well since her win at Chantilly,” Criquette Head-Maarek told the Racing Post. “I was going to go straight to the Prix de Diane, but she's so full of herself that I think another race will help her.” She encounters 'TDN Rising Star' Terrakova (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), trained by Head-Maarek's brother Freddy and no less significant to the family as a daughter of the equally revered Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa). She looked to have inherited some of her dam's substance when successful in a nine-furlong maiden on Chantilly's Polytrack in November and a bold show would take her to the Diane in which Goldikova was third in 2008. Ecurie des Monceaux and Ecurie Skymarc Farm's Rythmique (Ire) (Casamento {Ire}) represents the Jean-Claude Rouget stable and she has form over this track and trip, having finished third last time in the Apr. 23 G3 Prix Penelope.
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