Champs Elysees

Few senior jockeys in the weighing room would have dared to make the move that Hollie Doyle did on Dame Malliot (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) after just five furlongs in Thursday's G2 Princess of Wales's Tattersalls S., but the burgeoning talent knew best and her enterprise paid off handsomely. Taken out of Saturday's G2 Lancashire Oaks due to soft ground, last year's G2 Prix de Pomone winner was faced with that scenario here as Newmarket's July Festival opener fell under grey skies and rain. Too free for the first half...

Good things come to those who wait and connections and fans of Way To Paris (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) gained a much-deserved moment in the sun as the 7-year-old was played late to take Sunday's G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. Restrained in last early by Pierre-Charles Boudot, the ever-zestful grey emerged in the nick of time to deny the battling duo Nagano Gold (GB) (Sixties Icon {GB}) and Ziyad (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) by a neck and a head. "You are always a little bit worried when running horses...