Bapak Chinta is set to run in France before tackling some of Europe’s best sprinters in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York in August.

William Haggas' Approve could finish only third as Spanish raider Irish Field took top honours in the Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte today.

French challenger Natagora heads a quality field of 14 juvenile fillies in the skybet.com Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on Friday.

Ante-post punters were posed another puzzle at Newmarket today as the Ballydoyle stranglehold around next year’s 2000 Guineas was tightened further by Ivan Denisovich, the impressive winner of the TNT July Stakes.

Six Perfections is to miss Sunday’s Group One Prix d’Astarte at Deauville so she can be saved for the Prix Jacques Le Marois on August 15, a race she won last year.

Monday saw one of the two French raiders for Saturday’s Sagitta 2000 Guineas nibbled at in the ante-post market on the Newmarket showpiece.