Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted April 8, 2018 Journalists Share Posted April 8, 2018 With the G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and G1 1000 Guineas looming large, Deauville’s time-honoured trial, the G3 Prix Imprudence, offers the season’s first vital clues on Monday. Successful by 3 1/2 lengths in this venue’s G3 Prix de Cabourg over six furlongs in July, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Tantheem (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}) surprisingly beat only one rival home on her only other start when favoured for the G1 Prix Morny over the same course and distance during the August festival and bids to get back on track. Fourth in the Morny but beaten just over a length, Martin Schwartz’s and Alain Jathiere’s Zonza (Fr) (Alex the Winner) is another who has winning pattern-race form at this venue having captured the five-furlong G3 Prix du Bois in July. She was fifth in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac tackling a mile at Chantilly on Arc day and may be more at home at this seven-furlong trip. There is a lurker in the field, with Al Shaqab’s narrow Mar. 2 debut Polytrack winner Talbah (GB) (Style Vendome {Fr}) trusted by trainer Nicolas Clement to justify his bold decision to pitch her into this grade. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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