Chantilly's G3 Prix Vanteaux on Friday features the exciting Maquette (Tapit), Khalid Abdullah's homebred who earned 'TDN Rising Star' status for Andre Fabre over a mile at Saint-Cloud in October. A daughter of the 2011 G1 Prix Jean Romanet winner Announce (GB) (Selkirk), the grey has everything in place for a bright future, but first has to come through this pattern test against some similarly unexposed rivals. Alain de Royer-Dupre supplies two, with His Highness The Aga Khan's Dourdana (Fr) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) successful on her Maisons-Laffitte debut over a mile Apr. 26, and the Wildenstein Stables representative Asterina (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) coming in off a win also over that course and distance May 2. On that occasion, the half-sister to last year's G1 Prix du Moulin runner-up Akatea (Ire) (Shamardal) had a length to spare over stablemate Rosvana (Fr) (Dansili {GB}), who was only beaten just over three lengths when sixth in Monday's G1 Prix Saint-Alary.
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