2.20 Chantilly, Debutantes, €25,000, 3yo, c/g, 8f (AWT)
SPECTROSCOPE (Medaglia d'Oro) is a son of the 2009 GI Just a Game S. and GI First Lady S. winner Diamondrella (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) who starts out for Godolphin and Andre Fabre. Interestingly, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Mashkoor (Ire) (Shamardal), a full-brother to the GSW Qaraaba (GB) and half to another group performer in Kifaah (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), has been supplemented by Francois Rohaut.
2.20 Chantilly, Debutantes, €25,000, 3yo, f, 8f (AWT)
ASTERINA (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) represents the Wildenstein Stables-Alain de Royer-Dupre connection who have profited so well with her half-sister Akatea (Ire) (Shamardal), who was second in an admittedly-weak renewal of the G1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp in September. Facing her in an intriguing contest which serves as a barometer of the hotting-up of the French flat season is Gerard Augustin-Normand's Ouezy (Ire) (Le Havre {Ire}), a Jean-Claude Rouget-trained bay whose dam is a half to the heavyweights Ectot (GB) (Hurricane Run {Ire}) and Most Improved (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}).
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