Stars Are Out

After Tuesday’s action at Chantilly which featured the classy fillies in the G3 Prix d’Aumale, Longchamp is where its at on Wednesday with the G3 Prix des Chenes the central focus for next year’s Derby prospects. One of the quartet is Godolphin’s Cloth of Stars (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), an Andre Fabre-trained colt who looked a useful performer when registering a comfortable debut score over this trip at Deauville Aug. 22. The operation’s Lisa-Jane Graffard said, “Cloth of Stars is a promising prospect who is learning all of the time. He won his first start in good style, but showed a lot of immaturity that day and we hope that he will be a little more focused on this occasion. The most important thing is that he has another nice experience.” Among the rivals is another Deauville debut winner in His Highness The Aga Khan’s Vedevani (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}), a son of the G1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Vadawina (Ire) (Unfuwain). Successful over 7 1/2 furlongs Aug. 7, the bay may have more potential than Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum’s July 25 Listed Winkfield S. score Sixth Sense (Ire) (Shamardal) but the latter represents the Mark Johnston stable and warrants respect on that basis alone.