Sunday's G2 Prix du Muguet at Saint-Cloud has attracted His Highness The Aga Khan's star turn Ervedya (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), who reappears for the first time since winning the G1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp in September. That success was a third at the highest level, having overcome Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the Coronation S. at Royal Ascot in June and bossed the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches also at Longchamp in May. Also runner-up to Amazing Maria (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) in the G1 Prix Rothschild at Deauville in August, the chestnut returns under a seven-pound penalty, which could prove tricky against the race-hardened Maimara (Fr) (Makfi {GB}). Alain Louis-Dreyfus' bay, who was just over two-lengths fourth to Ervedya in the Moulin, having ironically beaten that rival's stablemate and Moulin runner-up Akatea (Ire) (Shamardal) convincingly in the G3 Prix de Lieurey also at a mile at Deauville in August, captured the G3 Prix Edmond Blanc with authority over this course and distance last time Apr. 3. Qatar Racing's G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains third Mr Owen (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) still has time to prove himself as a son of the G1 Prix Vermeille and GI E.P. Taylor S. heroine Mrs Lindsay (Theatrical {Ire}), with the yielding ground in the GI Woodbine Mile probably against him when a latest sixth.
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