Gold Standard

Often a quick consolation prize for those who just missed out on victory in the G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Chantilly’s G2 Prix de Sandringham looks poised for one of that Classic’s latest placegetters in Mexican Gold (Medaglia d’Oro) on Sunday. Third in the May 10 Longchamp highlight, having won the G3 Prix de la Grotte over that track and trip four weeks earlier, Khalid Abdullah’s homebred will have something to aim at with the classy but one-dimensional La Berma (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) in the line-up. Annihilating her opponents by six lengths when allowed to dominate from the front in Longchamp’s Listed Prix du Pont-Neuf over seven furlongs last time May 6, she has stamina to prove tackling a mile for the first time. The Niarchos Family’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Night of Light (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) has to step up on her latest narrow win in the course-and-distance Listed Prix Volterra May 8, but remains open to progression back on a sound surface.