Pascal Bary could be out for more Classic glory this weekend with Arcadia’s Angle, who may take his chance as a lively outsider in Sunday’s French 2000 Guineas at Longchamp.

PASCAL Bary made it second time lucky in the stanjamesuk.com 1000 Guineas as Natagora led from the outset to strike a blow for France in the fillies’ Classic at Newmarket yesterday.

A COSY little pub in the Dingle Peninsula might be a long, long way from the South Pole but the achievements of the first Irish team to reach the southernmost point on earth were celebrated there, last night.

Natagora is as short as 10-1 for next year’s Stan James 1000 Guineas but rider Christophe Lemaire is unsure whether the grey will stay the trip following her victory in the six-furlong skybet.com Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket.

ZAMBEZI SUN will enjoy a sedate build-up to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after delighting connections in his last serious exertions at the weekend.

Natagora booked her ticket to the Prix Morny with victory in the Group Two Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte.

Kieren Fallon emerged unscathed from a nasty-looking fall aboard Vodafone Derby second Eagle Mountain in the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp on Saturday evening.

Jockey Kieren Fallon has been sent for X-rays after he fell at Longchamp today.

Connections of Divine Proportions have paid glowing tributes to the dual Classic-winning filly who has been retired to the paddocks after suffering a tendon injury.

France’s star filly Divine Proportions has been retired to stud after suffering a tendon injury.

Divine Proportions lost her unbeaten record as Dubawi powered to success in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville.

Divine Proportions, trained by Pascal Bary and ridden by Christophe Lemaire, won the Prix d'Astarte at Deauville today.

DIVINE PROPORTIONS produced a stunning performance at Longchamp yesterday to maintain her unbeaten record with victory in the Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas).

Attraction is one of 15 left in Sunday’s Prix Jacques Le Marois after today’s forfeit stage, but she is not certain to run after trainer Mark Johnston expressed his concern about conditions at Deauville.

BLUE CANARI was brought with a powerful late charge by Thierry Thulliez to record a shock victory in the Prix du Jockey-Club at Chantilly yesterday and in the process give his trainer Pascal Bary a fifth success in the race.

CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON, the Belgian-born superstar of French racing, will wake up this morning feeling like a victim of the three-card trick.

SIX PERFECTIONS, a fast-finishing runner-up in the Sagitta 1000 Guineas, is to bid to go one better in the Entenmann’s-sponsored Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday week, it was announced yesterday.

THIS weekend’s Classic trials have attracted a bumper number of entries with some of last season’s leading juveniles engaged at Newbury, Thirsk and Leopardstown.

DOMEDRIVER, who ended Rock Of Gibraltar’s winning run when springing a surprise in the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile, is on target for the Hong Kong Mile.

Trainer Pascal Bary issued an upbeat bulletin on his French Derby winner Sulamani who reappears in the three-runner Prix Niel at Longchamp on Sunday.

FRENCH DERBY winner Sulamani will have the benefit of a pacemaker when he takes on High Chaparral in a mouth-watering clash at Longchamp on Sunday.

Sulamani, brilliant winner of the French Derby, could take on the cream of European middle-distance horses in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot next month.

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.