The Gallic runner Ervedya, a three times Group One winner last year, looks especially dangerous in Newmarket’s Sun Chariot Stakes
It seems an odd coincidence that, on this weekend when so much of the best racing is in France, Britain stages a Group One which is dominated by French raiders. What are they doing over here when there’s so much good racing just down the road?
Newmarket’s Sun Chariot Stakes must fit very nicely into the programme for French female milers because the race has been won five times in the past seven years by such a horse. Nor is this a one-man phenomenon. Three different French trainers have been successful in that time.
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