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Prix Jean-Luc Lagadere (1.30pm) preview
Like the preceding race, the juvenile colts’ Group One features an Aidan O’Brien runner on something of a retrieval mission, as Henri Matisse was unbeaten and odds-on for last month’s Group One National Stakes at the Curragh but finished only second behind Scorthy Champ having wandered alarmingly inside the final furlong. There is less obvious opposition from the home-trained contingent, however, as Field Of Gold, John Gosden’s Solario Stakes winner, and Brian Meehan’s Rashabar, the runner-up behind Whistlejacket in the Prix Morny in August, are next best on ratings, with Mario Baratti’s unbeaten Misunderstood, a four-and-a-half length winner of the Group Three Prix des Chenes last time, likely to offer the biggest threat from the locals.
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